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urban investigation
/ standards and procedures for new development or redevelopment
in the city
client: Municipality of Perm
project team: Jörn Schiemann, Otto Weyers, City
Project Bureau Perm
status: commission (2013) |
The Perm Gen Plan is one of the main administrative tools for the
transformation of the city’s physical environment. Aim is to transform
Perm into a more attractive, economically competitive, modern city
with a high standard of living. The urban planning principles applied
are aiming for a Compact City. Within this urban strategy, the ambition
of social, economic and environmental sustainability can be achieved
while creating an urban condition conducive to the preservation of
resources, conservation of energy and the natural environment.
Nonetheless, there is a political and economical pressure on the city
government to provide building territory diverging from the principles
of the Gen Plan framework. The sites in question are generally situated
in the peripheral parts of Perm; intense building activity in these
areas would undermine the Compact City approach. But there is still
the unfunded economical argument that building on an unoccupied piece
of land is much more efficient than building within the existing urban
fabric.
Aim is to provide the municipality of Perm with a Toolkit of diverse
living environments. Its objective is to enable an estimation of the
necessary investment costs to be done, when handing out a certain
territory to an applying investor. Based on this Toolkit, calculations
on all types of infrastructure can be done – from sewage networks
to public facilities. These figures allow the municipality (and the
potential investor) to evaluate the pros and cons of peripheral real
estate development in relation to inner city development, where a
great amount of the physical and social infrastructure is already
present. |
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