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'''Urban planning''', also known as '''town planning''', '''city planning''', '''regional planning''', or '''rural planning''', is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and [[design]] of [[land use]] and the built environment, including air, water, and the [[infrastructure]] passing into and out of [[urban area]]s, such as [[transportation]], [[communication]]s, and [[distribution network]]s and their [[accessibility]].<ref name="WIUP">https://web.archive.org/web/20080108061506/https://mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/plannin</ref>  
 
'''Urban planning''', also known as '''town planning''', '''city planning''', '''regional planning''', or '''rural planning''', is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and [[design]] of [[land use]] and the built environment, including air, water, and the [[infrastructure]] passing into and out of [[urban area]]s, such as [[transportation]], [[communication]]s, and [[distribution network]]s and their [[accessibility]].<ref name="WIUP">https://web.archive.org/web/20080108061506/https://mcgill.ca/urbanplanning/plannin</ref>  
  
Traditionally, urban planning follows a top-down approach in master planning the physical layout of human settlements.<ref name="Taylor">Taylor, Nigel (1998). Urban Planning Theory Since 1945. Los Angeles: Sage. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uIE3yXbrBu0C&pg=PA3 pp. 3–4.] </ref>
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==Official narrative==
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Healthy urban planning is about planning for people. It means putting the needs of people and communities at the heart of the urban planning process and considering the implications of decisions for human health and well-being.<ref>https://www.who.int/europe/activities/linking-health-and-urban-planning</ref>
  
 
==Urban redesign for military control==
 
==Urban redesign for military control==
 
Paris underwent a vast public works programme commissioned by Emperor [[Napoleon III]] and directed by his prefect of Seine, [[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]], between [[1853]] and [[1870]]. One of the purposes of Haussmann's creation o fwide boulevards was to make it easier for [[France/Military|the army]] to manoeuver and suppress armed uprisings; [[Paris]] had experienced six such uprisings between [[1830]] and [[1848]], all in the narrow, crowded streets in the center and east of Paris and on the left bank around the Pantheon. A small number of large, open intersections allowed easy control by a small force.  In addition, buildings set back from the center of the street could not be used so easily as fortifications.<ref>https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1871/05/14/78999917.pdf</ref> There was only one armed uprising in Paris after Haussmann, the [[Paris Commune]] from March through May [[1871]], where the Communards were beaten easily by the army.
 
Paris underwent a vast public works programme commissioned by Emperor [[Napoleon III]] and directed by his prefect of Seine, [[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]], between [[1853]] and [[1870]]. One of the purposes of Haussmann's creation o fwide boulevards was to make it easier for [[France/Military|the army]] to manoeuver and suppress armed uprisings; [[Paris]] had experienced six such uprisings between [[1830]] and [[1848]], all in the narrow, crowded streets in the center and east of Paris and on the left bank around the Pantheon. A small number of large, open intersections allowed easy control by a small force.  In addition, buildings set back from the center of the street could not be used so easily as fortifications.<ref>https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1871/05/14/78999917.pdf</ref> There was only one armed uprising in Paris after Haussmann, the [[Paris Commune]] from March through May [[1871]], where the Communards were beaten easily by the army.
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==Suburbs==
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{{FA|Suburbanization}}
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Car-dependent suburbs are designed to maximize control over the population and atomize them politically. Self-sustainability becomes impossible through the creation of [[food|national and international food chains]] and [[energy grids]]. The fact that there is no town center in suburbs is an intentional feature designed to limit the ability of the population to come together to discuss [[politics]] or other issues important to the community.
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[[Noam Chomsky]] said that suburbia "was created in the [[1940s]] by the biggest state [[social engineering]] project in history under the [[Eisenhower administration]] –beyond anything they did in [[Soviet Union|Russia]]. The specific goal was to eliminate [[public transportation]], destroy the [[inner cities]], forces everyone to use [[cars]], [[trucks]]. And in the 1940's there was an authentic conspiracy, a real one, between [[General Motors]], [[Firestone Rubber]], and [[Standard Oil California]] to buy up the public transportation, destroy it, and force everyone into [[buses]] and cars. The conspiracy went to court and they were convicted and fined –I think $5000 or something. Then the government moved in and took it over, under cover of defense."<ref>https://chomsky.info/20131001/</ref>
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In [[1961]], the sociologist [[Lewis Mumford]] wrote that "In the mass movement into suburban areas a new kind of community was produced, which caricatured both the historic city and the archetypal suburban refuge: a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same [[television]] performances, eating the same tasteless [[Big Food|pre-fabricated foods]], from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold, manufactured in the central metropolis. Thus the ultimate effect of the suburban escape in our time is, ironically, a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible."<ref>https://college.cengage.com/history/ayers_primary_sources/lewismumford_suburbs_1961.htm</ref>
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==15 minute cities==
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{{FA|15-minute city}}
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==Total surveillance==
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{{FA|Smart City}}
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Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility.[1]

Official narrative

Healthy urban planning is about planning for people. It means putting the needs of people and communities at the heart of the urban planning process and considering the implications of decisions for human health and well-being.[2]

Urban redesign for military control

Paris underwent a vast public works programme commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III and directed by his prefect of Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, between 1853 and 1870. One of the purposes of Haussmann's creation o fwide boulevards was to make it easier for the army to manoeuver and suppress armed uprisings; Paris had experienced six such uprisings between 1830 and 1848, all in the narrow, crowded streets in the center and east of Paris and on the left bank around the Pantheon. A small number of large, open intersections allowed easy control by a small force. In addition, buildings set back from the center of the street could not be used so easily as fortifications.[3] There was only one armed uprising in Paris after Haussmann, the Paris Commune from March through May 1871, where the Communards were beaten easily by the army.

Suburbs

Full article: Suburbanization

Car-dependent suburbs are designed to maximize control over the population and atomize them politically. Self-sustainability becomes impossible through the creation of national and international food chains and energy grids. The fact that there is no town center in suburbs is an intentional feature designed to limit the ability of the population to come together to discuss politics or other issues important to the community.

Noam Chomsky said that suburbia "was created in the 1940s by the biggest state social engineering project in history under the Eisenhower administration –beyond anything they did in Russia. The specific goal was to eliminate public transportation, destroy the inner cities, forces everyone to use cars, trucks. And in the 1940's there was an authentic conspiracy, a real one, between General Motors, Firestone Rubber, and Standard Oil California to buy up the public transportation, destroy it, and force everyone into buses and cars. The conspiracy went to court and they were convicted and fined –I think $5000 or something. Then the government moved in and took it over, under cover of defense."[4]

In 1961, the sociologist Lewis Mumford wrote that "In the mass movement into suburban areas a new kind of community was produced, which caricatured both the historic city and the archetypal suburban refuge: a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless pre-fabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold, manufactured in the central metropolis. Thus the ultimate effect of the suburban escape in our time is, ironically, a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible."[5]

15 minute cities

Full article: 15-minute city

Total surveillance

Full article: Smart City



 

Examples

Page nameDescription
15-minute cityPreventative measure to mitigate climate change or part of a nascent global control grid?
Low Traffic NeighbourhoodA top-down scheme implemented to reduce through-traffic in residential areas through the use of filtered permeability and traffic calming.
SuburbanizationPopulation growth in cities
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