KAWIT URBAN PLANNING

Group 4
AJ Santiago
Nicole Lontok
Shayne Galo
Cybel Caballero
Julius Noversteras
CURRENT STATUS OF KAWIT (zoning)
DESIGN CONCEPT
● The design concept will focus on a single palette of concept named Revitalization
● Revitalization concept will focus mostly creating a better and more improvised
urban plan associated to the general planning observed on the existing Kawit
municipality - REVITALIZE, REVIVE, RELIGHT
● The municipality’s vision of the new urban health will draw from the innate
positive values of the Filipino which I will cherish forever – hospitality,
compassion, dedication, persistence, social cohesion, collective identity, and
loving attitude that I’ve seen in each and every one of my old and new friends in
the Philippines
REVITALIZE
● The Revitalize concept builds on the existing
arcades as a place to retreat from the sun, yet
still celebrates the abundant natural light
● Revitalize boasts a welcoming, vibrant, distinct,
and signature look for the street by celebrating
rhythmic patterns of dappled light, shade, color,
and vegetation
● The Revitalize design concept moves the
existing angled parking from the curb line to the
center of the street
● This center parking layout creates a distinctive
look to the streetscape and has the potential to
be closed occasionally in the future for events
such as farmers markets or street fairs, with
vendor tents located down the vibrantly shaded
center of the street
REVIVE
● The Revive design concept is a more minimal intervention then the Revitalize
design concept in exchange for more flexibility and adaptability
● Alters the sidewalk at the corners and mid-block by extending out the sidewalk
depth of the existing parking stalls, creating a shorter walking distance for
pedestrians and making them more visible to drivers as they wait to cross the
street from any store
● The sidewalk extensions also provide room for tree planters, pedestrian lighting,
benches, trash cans or other site furnishing, and stone and xeriscape planting
● Ultimately, Revive brings life, beauty, and safety to existing Kawit Cavite streets
with minimal intervention
RELIGHT
● Includes installing pedestrian wall-mounted lighting and roadway lighting, along
the streets of Marulas. Marulas is the main route that pedestrians and vehicles use
to get to Cavitex.
● Street lighting is a key streetscape element that defines the quality of the
nighttime visual environment and safety in urban areas
● Today street lighting commonly uses high-intensity discharge lamps, often high
pressure sodium lamps (HPS), Such lamps provide the greatest amount of
illumination for the least consumption of electricity
● New street lighting technologies, such as induction or LED lights, emit a white
light that provides high levels of lumens and allows street lights with even lower
wattages
THE GARDEN CITY MOVEMENT
● The garden city movement is a method of urban
planning that was initiated in 1898 by Sir
Ebenezer Howard in the United Kingdom
● A method of urban planning in which self-
contained communities surrounded by
"greenbelts", containing proportionate areas of
residences, industry and agriculture
● The garden city would be self-sufficient and
when it reached full population, another garden
city would be developed nearby; 1902 as Garden
Cities of To-morrow
 GARDEN CITIES
● Howard organised the Garden City Association in 1899. Two
garden cities were built using Howard's ideas: Letchworth
Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, both in the county of
Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
 NEW GARDEN CITIES AND TOWNS
● Howard’s plan for garden cities was a response to the need for improvement in
the quality of urban life, which had become marred by overcrowding and
congestion due to uncontrolled growth since the Industrial Revolution
● Main features of Howard’s scheme were:

(1) the purchase of a large area of agricultural land within a ring fence;

(2) the planning of a compact town surrounded by a wide rural belt;

(3) the accommodation of residents, industry, and agriculture within the town;

(4) the limitation of the extent of the town and prevention of encroachment upon the rural belt; and

(5) the natural rise in land values to be used for the town’s own general welfare.
GARDEN CITY - THREE MAGNETS
 GARDEN CITY - THREE MAGNETS
● TOWN - The pull of ‘Town Magnet’ are the opportunities for work and high wages, social
opportunities, amusements and well – lit streets. The pull of ‘Country Magnet’ is in natural beauty, fresh
air, healthfulness. It was closing out of nature, offered isolation of crowds and distance from work. But it
came at a cost of foul air, costly drainage, murky sky and slums.
● COUNTRY - It offered natural beauty, low rents, fresh air, meadow but had low wages and lack of
drainage. Country has dullness, lack of society, low wages, lack of amusements and general decay.
● TOWN-COUNTRY - it was a combination of both town and countryside with aim of providing
benefits of both and offered beauty of nature, social opportunity, fields if easy access, low rent, high
wages and field of enterprise. Thus, the solution was found in a combination of the advantages of Town
and Country – the ‘Town – Country Magnet’ – it was proposed a Town in the Country, and having
within it the amenities of natural beauty, fresh air and healthfulness. Thus advantages of the Town –
Country are seed to be free from the disadvantages of either.
How cities are supposed to develop as per Garden City Movement

● An ideal garden city is a compact town of 6000 acres, 5000 acres permanently
reserved for agriculture
● It accommodates a maximum population of 32,000
● There are parks and private lawn everywhere
● Also, the roads are wide, ranging from 120 to 420 feet for the Grand Avenue, and
are radial rather than linear
● Commercial, industrial, residential, and public uses are clearly differentiated from
each other spatially
● No individual ownership of land
● Local community also participated in the decision-making regarding development
How cities are supposed to develop as per Garden City Movement

● The outer circle contains factories

and industries
● Rail road’s bypasses the town,
meeting the town at tangent
● central park containing public
buildings
● It is surrounded by shopping streets
which are further surrounded by
dwelling units in all directions
How cities are supposed to develop as per Garden City Movement

● After a city reaches its target population,

new interconnected nodes can be
developed. A Garden City is built up and
its population has reached 32,000
● There will be a cluster of cities so grouped
around a Central City that each
inhabitant of the whole group, though in
one sense living in a town of small size,
would be in reality living in, and would
enjoy all the advantages of, a great and
most beautiful city
GARDEN CITY - main components
● Planned Dispersal
● Limit of Town
● Amenities
● Town and Country Relationship
● Planning Control: Pre-planning of the whole
town framework, including road
● Neighborhoods
 FAILURE OF GARDEN CITIES
● The home prices in this garden city could not remain
affordable for workers to live in
● It did not immediately inspire government investment into
the next line of garden cities
● Welwyn did not become self-sustaining because it was only
20 miles from London
● Letchworth and Welwyn remained as the only existing
garden cities
CONCLUSION
● It was seen as the “marriage of town
and country, in an increasingly
coherent urban and regional pattern”
● These new town towns offer a
pleasing environment than crowded
and squalid quarters in old cities
● The movement succeeded in
emphasizing the need for urban
planning policies that eventually led
to the New Town movement
APPLICATION
● Kawit, Cavite's Garden City
Movement Application With the use
of the Garden City Movement in
Kawit Cavite opens lots of social
opportunities and employment,pay
high wages and had amusements
PROPOSED GARDEN CITY ZONING - KAWIT, CAVITE