Economic and Effective Urban Design
Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical characteristics of urban towns and villages and planning to provide municipal services for residents and tourists. Urban design involves buildings, infrastructure, streets and larger-scale public spaces, entire blocks and regions, and the entire city. Urban design is an interdisciplinary field that uses the procedures and elements of architecture and other related disciplines, including landscape design, urban planning, civil engineering, and municipal engineering. It draws on public management, sociology, law, urban geography, urban economics and other related disciplines of social and behavioral sciences, as well as the entity and procedural knowledge of natural sciences. Urban design is to establish connections between people and places, sports and urban forms, and nature and architectural structures. Urban design combines many aspects such as place creation, environmental management, social equity and economic feasibility to create places with unique beauty and characteristics. Urban design combines these and other aspects to create a vision for a region, and then deploy the resources and skills needed to turn the vision into reality.
From the class, I realized that socioeconomic analysis is very essential to any urban design proposal and it is also important that you know how to address these issues. One of the problems facing urban design is climate change. This is a long-term and difficult problem to solve, but at the same time it is an significant factor that we need to consider in design. In addition to some natural factors that we should consider in design, socioeconomic is also a very important factor in urban design that we need to consider. After all urban design is the art of making places, and the core of making places is design for people. Therefore, designers should fully understand people’s behaviors, habits, interests, etc. in the design to determine those designs in the venue are outdated and need to be discarded, and those functions need to be added. Regarding how we evaluate the socioeconomic, first a toolkit should to be applied, and then a series of data domain analysis, and effectively “types” of data, etc. However, how can we apply these data are the key. The following are some data analysis that may be involved in the urban design:
- Demographics: population-related data.
In terms of demographics, we can consider dividing by land, by age, by race, by gender, etc. We can adjust the criteria for census classification based on local conditions. And design the entire venue according to the different needs of different people. Because different demands for land are different, only when we understand the main people in this area and make targeted designs, can we reflect the value of the site and allow people to use the site more.
Source: UN Medium-Variant Projection, 2015 Get the data
Source: UN Medium-Variant Projection, 2015 Get the data
2. Income and wealth: earning and saving.
In our design, we should also consider the income and welfare of local people to determine what kind of venue functions they can accept. Or what kind of consumption their income supports them. This is also crucial to our design, which can determine whether our design results can be accepted by local residents and whether they can be liked by people. If the site we design is not liked by people, it will finally become a deserted place.
3. Culture and heritage: tradition and background.
Before designing, we can learn about the history of the site, local cultural traditions or cultural values, and local cultural heritages in advance to consider those histories that we need to preserve and protect, and those that we can discard
4. Site and location: footprint and local area (transport)
We should learn to look at site characteristics from a development perspective and grasp the economic opportunities associated with the site.
5. Resources: physical and non-physical.
We can pay attention to capital resources to deliver project and revenue resources to support your long-term interventions.
6. Market potential: adding value.
We should understand what kind of social and economic improvement design can bring to the local area, what kind of contribution it can make to local development, and the level of risk that the project needs to face.
In my opinion, it is not only the population that affects the urban economy, but also infrastructure, residents’ age structure, industrial structure, transportation and so on. Steady mainly talks about the impact of population on urban economy. From the data, the population will still grow orderly and steadily in the 21st world. Africa will become the main region of population growth in the world. Although Asia will have a period of growth, its population will gradually decrease after the middle of the 21st century. The rest of the world will maintain its current population size in the coming decades.
Although population growth often leads to economic growth, the concept of carbon neutrality has been put forward internationally. All countries need their own carbon emissions. The more populous countries, the more carbon emissions
Therefore, the higher the cost of carbon emissions in these countries, which may affect economic development.
Therefore, the relationship between population and economy may no longer be linear, but may be a quadratic function. There may be a value. When the population is this value, the economic growth rate is the largest.
The summary of the article seems a little hasty, and does not well summarize the gist of the whole article.
In addition, the number of graphs in this paper may be a little small. If you can have more graphs, it may be more persuasive and infectious.