The story of Ultimate City

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The story of Ultimate City
Theory of Urban Spatial Planning Plan 636 Fall
Semester 2002 Ball State University

Rajasekhar Immadisetty
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Location and General Information

• Population Greater than 1 Million
• Location Sea Shore next to the hills.
• Climate Moderate temperate climate.
• Brief History The place started as a
  fisherman's village and transformed gradually
  as a shipping industry, recently developed
  into an industrial and transportation hub.
  The place has all the natural Beauty and
  potential to become a tourist attraction
• Economy Primarily depend on Industrial,
  tourism and cargo transportation.

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Geographic characters of the location

• Coastal City (Sea on the East).
• Surrounded by a chain of hills.
• Natural beaches and Islands.
• South west wind direction.
• Non Seismic zone.
• Perennial river passing through the city with
  chances of flooding during the rainy season.
• Fertile soils as the location is a river basin.
• Good soil baring capacity to support high rise
  construction.

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Location
Area 400 Sq miles Reserve 2000 Sq
miles (Approx)
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sea
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Proposed City
River
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S Satellite Town H Hills
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Key Features

• Green City
• Population limited
• Urban growth boundary
• Planned and controlled growth
• Business Policy
• Office size Restrictions
• Transit oriented Land Use
• Environment friendly
• Accommodates all people all
• classes
• Highway and street policy

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Layout

• Primarily Grid iron
• Existing harmonious developments to be retained
  and conserved for their historic character.
• All the different zones will be easily accessible
  from each other.
• Interesting features to be created to break the
  monotony of the Grid iron.
• Zone based special themes and elevation controls
  for the development
• All developments to integrate with the central
  park system and transportation network.

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Connectivity
SUB
CBD - Central business District IND -
Industrial L IND - Light Industries Comm -
Commercial SUB - Suburban and Satellite
towns HSG - Housing and neighborhoods
IND
HSG
CBD
HSG
L IND
Comm
SUB
The City would be a very transit friendly city
with easily accessible, Would have a very Cheap
and convenient means of transit.
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MODEL
Satellite Town
Satellite Town
Green Reserve
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Green Reserve
CC
CC
Satellite Town
CBD
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CC
CC
Comm Center
CC
Green Reserve
Green Reserve
Satellite Town
Satellite Town
Satellite Realms Model
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Policies

• All the policy decisions would be in the best to
  protect the environment of the city and its
  surroundings.
• The transit and the land use policy to be
  integrated.
• Encourage the development around the transit
  corridor
• Discourage Large businesses
• Even distribution of jobs
• Growth policy.

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Growth Policy

• The growth of the city is not allowed beyond the
  urban growth boundary.
• Urban growth boundary is not revised. It is a
  fixed line of growth beyond which is the reserve.
• The satellite towns to be developed to take the
  population beyond the threshold of the growth
  boundary.
• Constant proportion between jobs and population
  to be maintained.

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Central Business District

• The court houses
• Government offices
• Business District
• Evening Malls
• Gardens and parks
• Convention Center
• Museum and theater complex
• Open multipurpose ground
• Restaurants
• High Density Residential developments with in
  short distance

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Down Town Policy

• Pedestrian Friendly
• Live round the clock.
• Free Mass Transit in the Downtown area
• Easily accessible from surrounding neighborhoods
• Lots of Cultural Activities round the year
• Window Shopping
• Elevation controls on the shop fronts

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Mass Transit

• Bus transit
• Light rail
• Commuter rail to Suburbs.
• The rail and the bus services would operated in
  coordination with each other.
• Easy and convenient interchanges.
• Free Bus/Rail services in places of tourist
  importance.
• Mount rail connecting all the tourist attractions
  and parks network.
• Mass transit to be available at 10 min distance
  from every development

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Mass transit

• All the transit facilities are easily accessible
  for the disabled.
• On demand special services for the Old and the
  disabled.
• Advantages
• Affordable to all classes of people
• Reduces street congestion
• Less pollution
• Avoid driving strain
• Easy to use.

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Parking

• Large Parking lots would be discouraged
• Parking charges would be high in core areas to
  encourage mass transit.
• Free parking for the disabled and the Elderly
• Free parking in the transit stations near
  suburbs where mass transit is not available with
  in 10 min walk
• Special design features for parking to keep them
  green.

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Accessibility
The city is easily accessible by all the main
means of transportation

• Air
• Water
• Rail Roads
• Road

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Roads and Streets

• The road layout is a star shape with radiating
  roads from the city center and an outer ring
  connecting the satellite towns
• All major roads to be developed as Boulevards
  with greenery, street furniture and separate
  lanes for the pedestrians and the bikes
• The number of roads to be built are restricted.
• Road expansion and road widening to be
  discouraged. Alternative arrangements to be made
  in the form of mass transit.

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Office and business

• Offices with large employment to distribute the
  employees in various branches around the city.(
  special incentives and taxes)
• -Does not imply to the manufacturing and the
  heavy industry
• Large businesses to be discouraged by limitation
  on the shop area.
• Job opportunities to be evenly spread all over
  the city.

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Parks and Gardens

• Parks and Gardens to be developed all along the
  beaches.
• All major parks developed for the recreation and
  the tourism development to be integrated into a
  network
• Parks to be developed in all neighborhoods
• All the major roads to be developed in the form
  of boulevards with landscaped garden strips.

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Tourism

• Tourism will be very actively promoted as an
  industry
• The beach front resorts
• Beach front development
• Recreation Centers
• Parks and Gardens
• Aqua Sports Complex
• Trekking in the surrounding mountains
• Hill resorts in the surrounding mountains would
  be some of the main attractions for tourism in
  the city

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Green Spaces

• The city is surrounded by the Green reserve
  spaces all around.
• These reserves would be developed as the national
  forest reserves and farm lands preventing any
  further development and sprawl by the city.
• The mountains are also protected as the forest
  reserves.

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Large Businesses

• Businesses which occupy the areas larger than the
  ----- feet will be discouraged by indirect
  restrictions.
• Large businesses which attract tourists would be
  encouraged.
• Businesses and local art to be promoted as
  tourism and related industry.

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Industries

• The heavy industries will be located to the north
  of the city near the port.
• The light and the manufacturing industries would
  be located in the various industrial zones with
  in the city as per the transportation needs and
  supplies.
• The industrial zones are located close to the
  rail lines for easy transportation.
• The industries that sound and air pollutions
  would be located on the outer fringes of the
  city.

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Educational Facilities

• Every residential neighborhood which as a
  threshold population of children would have a
  primary and secondary school.
• The city would have two universities, One with in
  the city and the other in the satellite town of
  the city.
• The city would have all the other specialized
  educational and research facilities that are
  easily accessible from the residential
  neighborhoods.

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Recreation and Sports facilities

• One sports stadium and one training facility to
  be located in the downtown.
• The sports facilities would be located near to
  the commercial centers that are evenly spread
  around the city.
• The recreation facilities would be located along
  the sea coast and near the places of tourist
  attraction.