Better livable town

CONTENT
1. Introduction
(An Explanation on the project brief and thing that I have to do)
2. A Town
(Describe the definition, characteristic and brief history about town)
3. Investigation and Data Collection: Ancient Town
(Describe the Characteristic, Brief History and When it started to form)
4. Investigation and Data Collection: Present Town
(Describe the Characteristic, Brief History and When it started to form)
5. Investigation and Data Collection: The Future Town
(Describe the Characteristic, Brief History and When it started to form
6. The new ‘’ X ‘’ Town
(Describe the new facilities, characteristic and the improvement of the town)
7. Conclusion
(Describe the important of town and thing that I have learned through the whole
project)
8. References

INTRODUCTION
I, Rachael Cheong Kah Yen as the mayor of the ‘’X’’ Town, will have to come up
with a new layout of the new town because the ‘’X’’ town is no longer livable for human
as it is been polluted.
This is a final project for the ENBE subject. The objectives of this project is to
Show symbolic relationship of the elements of the natural and built environment and
discover by it’s basic unit, form and function. This project is separated into individual and
group work.
For the Individual component, my task is to investigate, understand and collect
data about the content which relates to ‘’town‘’ and ‘’the build environment’’ and then
come up with a report about my own future town and as well as a 2 - 3 minutes of video
for a brief introduction of my future town
As for the group component, our task is to form a group of 5 - 6 members. We are
then required to make a model of the selected town from one of the member which
chosen and decided by the tutorial group lecturer. Besides, we are also required to
produce a maximum of 3 presentation board to explain further about the selected town.
My Group had decided to choose the theme, a floating n water city. We are to
propose a new future town that should be within 20 – 40 km2. The population for the town
should be within 15,000 – 300,000 and we should give our own future town a new name.

A TOWN
1.1 WHAT IS A TOWN
A town is a human settlement or also known as a population center which is
larger than a village but generally smaller than a city. A name is given while building
a town and it’s a built-up area with local government and there is a dividing
boundary for its limits of an area.
A small town , usually have a community of people ranging from a 1,000 to
20,000, whereby a Larger town usually have a population of 20,000 to 300,000. As a
conclusion, the population for a town is usually less than 300,000 and the size is normally
smaller than 70km2 .
1.2 WHAT MAKES A TOWN
A Town do not produce naturally, it is produce physically by Specialized craftsmen
to build a town and remaining it to be functional. A town shall be authorised from town
privileges which have been given by the government of the country.
A Town is form when it has a larger and more diverse population than a village but
lesser population compared to a city. A town is built with a better systems for sanitation,
utilities, land usage, housing and transportation.

1.3 WHAT MAKES A GOOD TOWN
T
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ns are for all people. Public places are where all can share in the good of town. A Town
public space shall make all the people who live in the town Happy and enjoyable. Making
people happy to stay in the town requires to have dignity, are treated equally, and have a
hope. That is what to make a good town.
A Town may also faces many problems due to its huge population such as
overcrowding, Pollution, Economic stagnation, Lack of Energy sources, and as well as
social problems like crime. A Good town shouldn’t have all this problems and should full
fill the requirements of the people and provide a better living space.
Therefore, a good town should provide a better, cleaner, safetier living space for
the people by having a management and good maintenance. A good town should provide
a better and convenient connectivity and accessibility for the people in town. Besides, a
good town should have various amenities and as well as good school, regional
hospitality, and government industry.
In addition, due to its huge amount of population in a town, the town thereby
should provide a residential area that is enough for the people to live comfortably. A good
town shall have a stable pollitical system where all the community have a apportunity tO
participate in government admistration. Existance of law to control and maintain
tranquality of town.

INVESTIGATION & DATA COLLECTION
THE ANCIENT TOWN (HOI AN)

Hoi An is a famous Ancient Town in Mid Southern Vietnam, Is a Town which still
maintain such a christine ancient beauty after nearly 300 circles of the seasons. Hoi An
still remains as it is from the very first day of its being born even thought it has been
through a few centuries of history.
Hoi An has a diverse culture influences that still remain visible until today. The
western style of architecture blend well together with Hoi An’s original old fashioned
Architectures houses had turn Hoi An as an unique ancient town, absorbing all tourists
who are eager for classic beauty!
Hoi An is a truly wonderful warm town, the town is colorful during the night as it
was ornamented with beautiful lanterns and it has the christinely old plain houses but yet
beautiful and the atmosphere is rich with unique culture and historical elements. It is say
to be an unforgettable southeast Asian town that u would like to stay with forever.
THE ANCIENT
TOWN
(WUYUAN)

Wuyuan County is located in the northeast of Jiangxi Province, It is also known as
a town which noted as the most beautiful breathtaking town in China. Wuyuan is a town
where time stand still, it has consists of at least 50 ancient and fancy small villages that
still remain unchanged over the last century.
Wuyuan is full with different types of unique architectural style, Such as the Ming
and Qing style architectural features including ancient dwellings, mansion, bridges and
ancestral halls. Wuyuan owns a elegant, attractive and well preserved historical ancient
buildings that has now becoming the popular destination for photographic tourist.
Wuyuan’s building is more in a high historical and aesthetic value.
Wuyuan had become a tourism place due to it’s breathtaking landscape in the
foggy morning with a touch of fragrant smell and the gentle sweet blowing wind. The
peacefully harmonious with the natural scenery that attracts the tourist especially from
late March to early May, Wuyuan welcomes its best season for tourism.

From the East, West and North routes there are different attraction. From the east
route, they have the most attractive and well maintain ancient architectural village from
the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1636–1911) Dynasties. The village are surrounded by
mountains, rivers and embraced by the great natural and cultural environment
From the West, it is more to a ecological environment as the area is a provincial
natural preserved place. The Jinshan Ecological Tea Garden is a national ecological
agriculture tourists. People can experience plucking tea leaves, making their own tea and
enjoy their leisure with a cup of tea in the field of tea plant.
As for the north route, there its natural colorful scenery can be found. Dazhang
Mountain and Wolong Valley scenic area enjoy the distinctive scenery of mountains and
valleys. Almost one tenth of the area is embraced with natural forest. During the spring, it
turn into a pallet of colors as the flowers bloom in the mountains. In summer, is it filled
with a splash of trees resulting a green world for that area. In the autumn, the mountain
turns into s color of pumpkin as it is ablaze with the yellowish, brownish and red maples.
As for Winter season, it became a beautiful piece of white paper as the ice cover the
mountain and the ice seems to be craved by a craftsman.

THE RESENT TOWN (DOWNTOWN CORE)
Downtown Core is a small urban planning area that covers the Central Business
District (CBD), City Hall, Bugis and Marina Centre zones. It is located at south of the city-
sate od singapore and is well known as the heart of city that pulsates with the vibrant
energy of its multiplex of inhabitants.
The Downtown Core area offers an vibrant urban neighbourhoods surrounding a
thriving, pedestrian-friendly Downtown core. The people will benefit from a high quality
public and private spaces and a broad range of employment, residential, comercial, and
recreational opportunities, all within a well-connected and stunning urban environment
that embraces the Victoria harbour, celebrates its legacy, Victoria’s role as the Provincial
Capital and provides a model for livable and sustainable urbanism.
The Downtown core is surrounded by many building and less Greenery area but
yet the place is cleas and peace eventhough they have quite a large amount of
population. The reason why the people usually cycle and walk more often then driving is
because the town have a low crime rate . Singapore has a lowest crime rate and rank
number 3 in the world as they have a stable political system which creates a peaceful
place to live.

THE FUTURE TOWN (SEUTHOPOLIS)
Global warming and climate change issues are perhaps the greatest threat
to this planet. It is caused by rapid deforestation resulting to melt ice tops and glaciers.
If it continues with the same speed, most of the coastal areas will be covered in water in
the coming few years. It will lead to less inhabitable area and people will have to live,
cramped in a limited area.
However, floating and under water structures had bring up a hope for the future.
The ‘Underwater City’ in Bulgaria is a similar revolutionary town that is ‘built in the
middle of a lake, instead of an island, but in fact it was below water level. The city isn’t
completely under water, it has a huge dam (1,377 feet in diameter and 65 in height)
surrounding the city, keeping the water away from the living area that can be accessed
only through water transportation. The underwater city is actually the ancient city of
Seuthopolis, discovered in 1948, which then came into real life, after a dam was knock
down in Bulgaria, to become one of the most stunning under water projects ever.

THE NEW ‘’ X ’’ TOWN
‘’ THE DIRECTION ‘’
INTRODUCTION
I, Rachael Cheong Kah Yen as the mayor of the ‘’X’’ Town, I had decided to come
up with a new town for my people, It’s called ‘’ The Direction’’ because the The ‘’X’’ town
is no longer livable for human as it is highly polluted. Therefore, I had to propose a town
that full fill the needs of my people and solve the problems that had faced in previous
town planning. In proposal of this town will include zoning of the town such as
government district, commercial, Business, recreational area, education, religious and
culture areas, hospitals, industrial, agriculture and as well as residential area.
On the other hand, my town shall have preparation to overcome following
circumstances such as diseases control, food distribution, riot control and security issues.
Besides, my town would have a better and efficient transportation system and

networking. In addition, Infrastructure, waste management, sustainable initiative and
climate change consideration.
WAYS TO SOLVE THE MAJOR PROBLEMS THAT MY FUTURE TOWN MIGHT
FACED.
My town will located at the west coast of selangor, Malaysia. The reason why I
build here I because Malaysia faces a two monsoon wind season during the late may to
September, which known as the southwest monsoon. The second monsoon is known as
the Northeast monsoon during march and october. Besides, The site of my town is
located near the equator. Therefore, the climate is categorized as equatorial, the whether
would be hot and humid throughout the year. (Average temperature around 80.6 oF). The
average rainfall is 250 centimeters in a year
Statistic of ocean heat level
Based on my research I had found that climate change is likely to have quite a
major effect on Malaysia, as it increases the sea levels and rainfall resulting the high rate
of flooding and leading to droughts. The diagram below shows the statistic of the sea
water level through out the world each decades.

The climate change is also cause by improper town planning that leads to a
serious stage of deforestration, resulting a global warming of motherland-Earth. In result,
this affect the ice berg at atlantic to melt and increasing of sea water level and scientist
investigate that Malaysia will sink in the ocean and became one of the most horrible
disaster in 2080. Therefore, My town has to plant more vegetation along the streets and
encourage the people to have a garden roof on their house.
Tsunami is one of the major concern for my future town. So I decided to build a
pneumatic breakwater system, It’s a hollow steel pylons buried in the seafloor that
telescope when air is pumped in. Once they popped above the surface, the pylons
reduced the size of the waves by half.
Conclusion, In order to minimize the risk of my citizen to face the natural disaster
in future, on the other hand my town is free of earthquakes, land slides and volcano
eruptions. Therefore, the floating on water town is my choice to build a better livable
town.
Garden Rooftop
Vegetation along the stree

ZONING
Port and Shipping Section
Located surround the diameter of the town, The port and shipping
section will be one of the income and benefits to the town’s economical.
Industrial Area
The industrial area is located far away from the residential area and as well as the hub
because it might pollute the air and the sound.
Forest and Recreational Park.
This mainly build infront of industrial area to block the dusty air and reduce the noise
away from the residential area.
Energy Resources
This is where all the solar panel and wind turbin located at, and the area is build near the
port and shipping section as that area receive most wind and sunlight.
Tourism
Area
Port and Shipping
section
Industrial
Area
Roads
Education
Area
Residential
Area
Energy Resource
Area
Education
Area
Medical Area
Comercial
Area
Business
Area
Forest and
Recreational
Area
Cultue and
religious Area
Food Streat
Lake

Culture and religious
Malaysia is a beautiful country as it have many cultures and religious. This space is
created near the forest for a better environment.
Medical center and security
Both of this area is important for the people and therefore its build near the hub where
everyone can access easily.
Education and Residential Area
Both of this Area are just right beside to each other as this make the people to send their
kids to school easily and more convinient.
Tourism Area
This is located near to the sea and therefore it is build into a beach side.
Lake
It is a manmade lake located at the hub to balance of the building around and it actually
supply clean water for the people as it has a water filter underneath it.
Comercial, Business and Government Area
Three of this area were build together and was located at the hub of the town.

ENHANCEMENT OF MY TOWN ‘’ THE DIRECTION ‘’
TRANSPORTATION
A bad transportation system may bring a harmful impact to the environmental
systems. From one side, Transportation is a dominant source of emission of most
pollutants and their multiple impacts on the environment.
Therefore, for my future town I decided to build a Magnetic Levitation Transport
(maglev), is a revolutionary form of railway transport. It uses magnetic forces to make the
vehicles hover above the track instead of running along them, result in reducing the
friction between the two and in fact it the allows a much faster speeds to be attained than
are safely managable on any other form of ground based public transport.
Besides, my town would provide a better Transportation planning. The road is
mainly catagorized into 5 lanes, there will be two lanes specialized for cyclist in between
the pedesterian walkways. This is mainly for the cyclist to travel safely instead of cycling
in the crowd of vehincles that may causes accidents to happen. As for the middle lane
between the bicycle path, there is the lane which is mainly for the vehincles.
Pedestrian walk
Bicycle path
Vehicle path

Besides public transportation there is also the subway underneath the town along
the diametter of the town. The number of passengers using the train is increasing. Thus, I
would like to accelerate this growth and increase the number of trains to eventually in six
sprinters per hour on the busiest routes. Expansion of the railway network, better travel
information and Internet in the train should make the train more attractive as an
alternative to the car.

TOURISM
The Economic and social factors are closely interrelated, as the economy can
provide the infrastructure and investment required for human development. Consequently
the significance of tourism for people can by how positively economic and social factors
impact on each other. As society becomes more mobile and prosperous tourism will
become increasingly significant for people.
In my town, there isnt’t any interesting and attractive place like madives or the
greatest wall from china, but I would like to came up with a town that is known as the
paradise of food. Due to its richnest of culture in malaysia, a food street full of diff
culture’s food can be as an attraction interesting place to the tourists. Besides, t the
central of the hub of my town will be having a undulating tall building that is functional to
be a luxurious hotel and a extroadinary comercial tower.
Lake
Comercial
Area

CONCLUSION
What have I learned through out this proposal of town is that a town is proper
zoning of a town, efficient transportation, fully equip with infrastructure, utility, services
and sustainable initiative. As a mayor of the town, developing the town to make it fully
ulitties with those services and as a mayor I need to concern about transportation
problem, climate changes and pollution that might effect my people. The most important
element, a town need to have some greenery area to have a healthier, happy and
peaceful atmosphere to have a good quality of township.
Different characteristic of the natural environment have been explore by me when
preparing this proposal such as topography, landscape, space, buildings and
infrastructure. On the other hand, I have learn the skill of presenting my ideas using
different media, tools and technique.

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