Town planning has gained a lot of importance today. New towns are being developed. It has become very important for the town planners to concentrate on old development as well as the new development. It is essential that old and new development are linked properly. Energy efficiency in planning should be the goal of any town planner, urban designer or an architect. The aims of town planning are as follows.
1. To correct the past errors as far as possible.
2. To provide civic aesthetics of the town.
3. To attempt an orderly appropriate and balanced
arrangements of land use.
4. To develop healthy, attractive and efficient
environment in the city.
5. To promote a high level of culture.
6. To create and maintain an attractive central core
and make it the cultural, financial, commercial and
entertainment centre.
7. To provide an interrelated balanced transportation
system adequate to meet the needs of everyone in
the urban community.
8. To encourage the attraction, retention and
expansion of a sufficient number and variety of
industries and business activities to provide jobs
to the people and to get more income to
municipality.
9. To create a sense of dignity, identity, pride and
responsibility in the social environment.
10. To suggest the schemes which will control the
future growth and development of the city.
11. To insure against the possible future errors.
12. To concentrate for development of full potentials
of human resources through wide variety of
programmes, facilities and other incentives.
13. To establish and maintain a consistent housing
policy providing for decent housing open to
all persons in the community at reasonable
prices and rents.
14. To encourage vigorous programmes of
inspection, maintenance of health environment in
the city.
15. Suggestions will be given to provide maximum
housing facilities as per the income through
various concerned authorities.
16. To encourage the development of neighbourhoods
as social and recreational units and promote the
neighbourhood organizations and involvement in
the improvement of local services, facilities,
transportation and living conditions.
17. Suggestions will be made for efficient
transportation facilities in the city including new
roads, widening the roads repairing maintenance
depending upon the localities and functional
zones.
18. To develop parks and recreation facilities to
optimum standards based on local needs
preserving as many sites of natural and
historical significance as possible.
19. To provide maximum educational and medical
facilities.
20. To provide maximum utility service facilities
to reach all people of the city.
21. To promote maximum co-operation between
Government and public to get the benefits of
development schemes of urban development.
22. To implement effective measure of slum
clearance programmes in the city and controlling
the further development of slum in the city.
23. Suggestions will be made to demolish old
structures of public and private houses.
24. To suggest relocation, redevelopment and
renewal of structure in the city.
25. To create maximum green and open spaces in
the urban limit.
26. Measures will be suggested to control the
pollution of air, water, noise etc.
27. Improvement and modernization of water supply,
sewerage, electricity etc.
28. Improvement of site development for residential
industrial, public and semi-public use.
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