Luxury Town Planning

• That Luxury cities should have a plan is now "admitted" in our time of large-scale construction and plan-making has become ah everyday activity. The purpose of a town plan is to give the greatest possible freedom to the individual. It does this by controlling development in such a way that it will take place in the interests of the whole population.

• The new development absorbs or modifies an existing Environment, and so before it can be luxury designed it is necessary to find out about that environment. It is also necessary to do research of the trends of population growth, the distance fromwork to home, the preferences for different types of dwelling,the amount of sunshine in rooms, the degree of atmospheric pollution and so on. After the survey is complete a forecast of future development is made in the form of a map, or series of maps: the master plan or development plan. As no one can be certain when the development is to take place and since a society is an organic thing, with life and movement, the plan of a city must be flexible so that it may extend and renew its dwellings, reconstruct its working places, complete its communications and avoid Congestion in every part.

• The plan is never a complete and fixed thing, but rather one that is continually being adapted to the changing needs of the community for who it's designed and until quite recent years town plans were always, made as inflexible pattens, but history has shown that a plan of this description inevitably breaks: down in time.
• The flexible plan, preceded by a survey, is one of the most revolutionary ideas that man has ever had about the control of his environment.
• Most luxury towns today have a characteristic functional pattern as follows: a central core containing the quality shopping centres, modern business appartment, surrounded by a lot of houses. Most town planners accept the traditional town pattern. In the preparation of a master plan they are preoccupied with the definition of the town centre, industrial areas, and the areas of housing; the creation of open space for recreation, the laying down of a pattern of main roads which run between the built-up areas (thus leaving them free of through traffic) and connect them to each other.
• The master plan thus has to define the ultimate growth of the town, but though the master plan is a diagram, and even a flexible one, it is the structure upon which all future development is to take place.