Principles of City Planning

LE CORBUSIER ' S PRINCIPLES OF CITY PLANNING AND THElR APPLICATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS

City health development planning.

The objective of this evaluation was to review the evolution and process of city health development planning (CHDP) in municipalities participating in the Healthy Cities Network organized by the European Region of the World Health Organization. The concept of CHDP combines elements from three theoretical domains: (a) health development, (b) city governance and (c) urban planning. The setting wa...

Planning from Second Principles

Planning from second principles by reusing and modifying plans is one way of improving the eeciency of planning systems. In this paper, we study it in the general framework of deductive planning and develop a logical formalization of planning from second principles, which relies on a systematic decomposition of the planning process. Deductive inference processes with clearly deened semantics fo...

Principles of Optimal Sequential Planning

A concept of sequential planning is presented as extension and generalization of “pure” sequential procedures. According to it, observations are collected in groups of variable sizes. The article discusses optimality of sequential plans in terms of a suitable risk function that balances an observation cost and a group cost. It is shown that only non-randomized sequential plans based on a suffic...

Planning and the Industrial City

ON OC TOBE R 25, 1945, Pennsylvania governor Edward Martin announced that the state legislature had officially authorized the creation of a state park in the city of Pittsburgh, at the “Point,” the historic confluence of the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela rivers. In less than a month, Pittsburgh’s political and business leadership, led by the city’s banking tycoon and civic luminary Richard K...