Browsing by Subject "Urban and regional planning"

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    Bredasdorp: a regional land-use study
    (1973) Krige, George; Ray Chapman
    The study area lies in the South West Cape and forms a sub-region of the predominantly agricultural region known as the Overberg. Bredasdorp, the primary urban node of the area lies to the east-south east of and some 180 km by road from Cape Town. The regional setting of the area is clarified on map 1. The extent of the region to be analysed (map 2) approximates to the boundaries of the Bredasdorp Divisional Council administrative area, although it includes small portions of land at its western and eastern extremities which fall in the Caledon and Riversdale Divisional Council areas. Its southern limit is the 190 km stretch of coast along the Atlantic and Indian oceans to the west and east respectively of Cape Agulhas which cape forms the southern tip of both the study area and the African continent.
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    Technology and urban form, Chicago 1830-1972
    (1972) Lindsay Falck; David Dewar
    The purpose of this study is to trace the influences which are exerted on the urban environment by changing developments in technology, operating in combination with social, economic and political factors, and to study the results of these influences by observing the evolving forms and conditions of the city at particular points in time. The study also examines the converse situation where technology has in some cases been called on to provide new techniques, or systems of provision, to satisfy new demands caused by changing activity patterns in the city. In essence therefore, the study is concerned with the inter-relationships of "Opportunity and Response" and 'Need and Response", between urban factors and technological enterprise, and the resultant effects on the form and condition of the physical environment. It is axiomatic that the degree of influence of technology on the urban environment does vary over time. At some stages in general historical development, technological changes have been extremely slow, as for example in early Egypt, or in Western Europe between the fifth and ninth centuries, whereas at other points in time, technological development has occurred at a remarkable rate, as at the turn of this century in Europe and America, and currently in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is also accepted that factors other than technology, such as war, economic depression, catastrophies, or human reactions to historical situations, have in some periods suppressed or drastically accelerated the effects of technological development. Such factors have been accounted for in the methods of study and presentation of the thesis, so that factors of change in technology and urban response are always seen in relation to other non-technical generative forces, in order to obtain a balanced view. Finally it must be clearly established from the outset that the term "technological development" does not automatically imply ''advancement", either in technical or in human value terms. The evident ills of some of man's inventions or innovations are constant reminders of his shortsightedness or incomprehension of the long term effects of his inventiveness.