Download Planning Options and Techniques: Determining Appropriate Future Actions - Prof. Safei-Eldi and more Study notes Architecture in PDF only on Docsity! Planning Options & Choices Steiner, Chapter 6 Dr. Safei-Eldin A. Hamed Department of Landscape Architecture Texas Tech University Planning Options & Choices I. Optional Plans (Conceptual Plans) II. Techniques for Selecting Preferences III. Examples of Selecting Preferences What are the key Questions in Planning? 1. What goals and objectives should a community adopt? 2. What are the problems and potentials that this community face? 3. What kind of information about the area should be collected? 4. At what scale or in what format should information be collected and presented? 5. What are the boundaries of the site? the planning area? and the study area? What are the criteria of a good planning option/conceptual model? Is based on logical and imaginative combination of inventory, analysis, and synthesis Suggests how problems may be solved. Suggests how goals will be achieved through implementing specific actions Determines wise allocation of land uses Sets directions for future management Why do we need planning options? Not to force a choice or pick a ‘winner’,. Rather, alternatives should provide some notions of what is feasible; They can help to communicate the range of issues that need to be considered. The final solution is likely to incorporate pieces of several alternatives” Kaplan, 1998 Techniques For Selecting Preferences 2. Task Forces, CACs, and TACs Ad hoc citizen team Well defined problem Created by a sponsoring agency Small number (8-20) Equal in status and responsibility Relies on technical staff from the sponsor The skills of the facilitator is a key to its success Techniques For Selecting Preferences 3. Citizen Referendum and Synchronized Surveys Official vote of citizens or Scientific tally of public opinion (Gallop Poll), T.V., radio, phone, E-Mail, etc… Synchronized surveys keep people involved through the process. Techniques For Selecting Preferences 4. Goals - Achievement Matrix Relates means to ends Associated with Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) CBA accounts for monetary and non- monetary, tangible and intangible costs and benefits What are the main scenario types? State Scenarios Process Scenario Types of Process Scenarios Idealization scenario Prophecy scenario Simulation Scenario, (or predictive model) Developmental scenario Case Study: Portland Land-Use To comply with the 1973 State land- use planning goals. Population, economic, and environmental studies Produced the “City Planner Handbook” Three land-use planning options Assessed against 32 City goals and 15 State goals
