Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Planning Issues : Single-use Development vs Mixed-use Development

Single-use Development

This refers to a situation where commercial, residential, institutional and industrial areas are separated from one another. Consequently, large tracts of land are devoted to a single use and are segregated from one another by open space, infrastructure, or other barriers. As a result, the places where people live, work, shop, and recreate are far from one another, usually to the extent that walking, transit use and bicycling are impractical, so all these activities generally require an automobile.

Mixed-use Development

Mixed-use development is the use of a building, set of buildings, or neighborhood for more than one purpose. Since the 1920s, zoning in some countries has required uses to be separated. However, when jobs, housing and commercial activities are located close together, a community's transportation options increase. In addition, mixed-use developments often have higher property values. Often located in existing urban areas or as part of a new town center, mixed-use development provides a range of commercial and residential unit sizes and options. In planning zone terms, this can mean some combination of residential, commercial, industrial, office, institutional or other land uses. The concept of "mixed-use" as a discrete zone is predicated on the relatively recent practice of single-use zoning whereby different uses in different places are set by legislative mandate.


Single-use

Mixed-use

1. Privacy. Low of Community Interaction.

2. The places where people live, work, shop and recreate are far from one another.

3. Waste of the use of land. (Large tracts of land are devoted just only to a single use and are segregated from one another by open space, infrastructure, or other barriers.

4. Require an automobile to moves from one place to another place.

1.High Community Interaction

2. Jobs, housing and commercial activities are located close together.

3. Fosters walking and bicycling.

4. Tends to be more environmentally friendly.

5. Encouraging the use

of public transit.

6. Buildings on mixed use developments give better total investment returns.

Which one are you prefer?So..Please leave your comments about this issues..

2 comments:

  1. Mixed-use Development! bcoz it's tends to be environmentally friendly..

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