Human Settlement in 2040
Land Use Planning and Township Design: Human Settlement in 2040
Modern urban planning is based around sustainability and sustainable development. Predicting what the earth will be like in 27 years is difficult but town planners must plan for certain things so a city can function efficiently for many years. Natural disasters, gradual climate change and rapid urbanization are some of the things that should weigh on a town planner’s mind when he or she is designing a city.
Cape Town is a very unique city in the world, it has mountains and oceans in the vicinity with low flat land in between. The residential disparity in the city is very evident as one will find the wealthier close to the city centre and the mountain while the poorer people and the informal settlements are located more inland and further away from the CBD. This is the legacy of Apartheid and was planned for and enacted by the administration of the day.
The amount of slums in the region is also a result of illegal squatters caused by the rapid influx of people into the city. The municipality battled to plan and deal with the huge increase of people and so the new comers who couldn’t acquire any shelter were left without basic services such as housing, water, electricity and transport. One can expect the current rate of migration to the city to not slow down as more and more people search for work in the urban environment.
One of the problems in Cape Town is that early town planners failed to identify the need for high rise or vertical structures, and this has created urban sprawl. At the benefit of aesthetic appeal or a magnificent view the city is left with large tracts of sub-urban land containing single and double story housing. This takes up a lot of space and is not utilized as much as having blocks of flats where more people can live on the same piece of land. People are spread further out from the CBD and this puts pressure on the transport network. Things are changing slowly as more people
Modern urban planning is based around sustainability and sustainable development. Predicting what the earth will be like in 27 years is difficult but town planners must plan for certain things so a city can function efficiently for many years. Natural disasters, gradual climate change and rapid urbanization are some of the things that should weigh on a town planner’s mind when he or she is designing a city.
Cape Town is a very unique city in the world, it has mountains and oceans in the vicinity with low flat land in between. The residential disparity in the city is very evident as one will find the wealthier close to the city centre and the mountain while the poorer people and the informal settlements are located more inland and further away from the CBD. This is the legacy of Apartheid and was planned for and enacted by the administration of the day.
The amount of slums in the region is also a result of illegal squatters caused by the rapid influx of people into the city. The municipality battled to plan and deal with the huge increase of people and so the new comers who couldn’t acquire any shelter were left without basic services such as housing, water, electricity and transport. One can expect the current rate of migration to the city to not slow down as more and more people search for work in the urban environment.
One of the problems in Cape Town is that early town planners failed to identify the need for high rise or vertical structures, and this has created urban sprawl. At the benefit of aesthetic appeal or a magnificent view the city is left with large tracts of sub-urban land containing single and double story housing. This takes up a lot of space and is not utilized as much as having blocks of flats where more people can live on the same piece of land. People are spread further out from the CBD and this puts pressure on the transport network. Things are changing slowly as more people