Urban Planning And Design Assessment For Quality Of Built Environment

Abstract

Planning and design appreciably influence the economic, environmental, social and cultural newlinevalue of a place. It encourages local businesses and entrepreneurship, it attracts people to newlinelive there, and it provides housing and travel at affordable cost, access to job opportunities, newlinefacilities and services. It determines the physical scale, space and ambience of a place and newlineestablishes the built and natural forms within which individual buildings and infrastructure newlineare sited. It affects the balance between natural ecosystems and built environments and their newlinesustainability outcomes. In other words the basic aim of planning and design is to create a newlineplace for people in which they live and work in a pleasant, safe and comfortable manner. It newlinedraws together the many strands of place-making, environmental stewardship, social justice newlineand economic feasibility into the creation of places with divergent beauty and identity. newlineTherefore, a place to be assessed to know the inhabitants the quality of built environment newlinewhere they are living and working. This will help to boost their morale, health and social newlinestatus. newline newline