Town Planning

THEME: Town Planning

Read, write and learn the following words and word combinations:

to lay out планувати

facilities обладнання

to furnish укомплектувати

housing житло, житлове будівництво

to redress the balance відновити баланс

amenities комунальні зручності

definite певний, визначений

to appear з'явитися

to realize здійснювати, реалізувати

to take into consideration брати до уваги

advantageous sitting вигідне розташування

residential житловий

enterprises підприємства

green belt зелена зона

section секція

to include включати, містити в собі

provisions  умови, положення

convenient зручний

living conditions умови проживання

laying out of highways прокладання автомагістралей

Read and translate the following text.

Town planning or urbanism is the preparation of plans for the regulated growth and improvement of towns, or the organization of land and buildings for group living. Architects must plan where streets are to run, parks are to be laid out, and industrial facilities are to be furnished. They must plan new housing and new public buildings, parks, and playgrounds. And yet, community planning can never be the work of a single individual or class of individuals. Good community plans need the contribution of experts in many fields. Town planning is a cooperative process in which architects, economists, engineers, lawyers, landscape architects, doctors, sociologists, surveyors, and other specialists take part. Modern city planning has become so complex, so enmeshed in statistics, and so controlled by financial interests that too often community plans appear to be lifeless and mechanical. In this field it is the architect’s task to redress the balance, to realize that cities exist for people (not people for cities), that business and industry and science should serve the people and not enslave them.Our cities are growing and their appearance is changing. New kinds of buildings are rising with more amenities for the people. The town of the future is already appearing among us today. It should be a convenient, beautiful and well planned town.

Towns are built according to definite plans. The general town building plans take into consideration such methods as the advantageous siting of industrial enterprises and residential areas, the laying out of highways, the organization of municipal transport, the creation of centres and green belts and the development of public services and communications.

The general plans include specific provisions – sometimes provisions of a very radical nature – for reconstructing certain sections of the towns.

If the town is built according to the plan, its economy will develop in a balanced manner, new housing will arise in a normal way and people will have the most healthy and convenient living conditions. It is very important to have a well thought out, scientific plan and to follow it strictly.

Answer the following questions.

1. What specialists take part in town planning?

2. What is the architect’s role in modern city planning?

3. What is taken into consideration in the general town building plans?

4. Why is it important that towns should be built according to definite plans?

5. Are new kinds of buildings rising with more amenities for the people?

Match the parts of the sentences.

1. Good community plans need ... 

2. Town planning is the preparation of plans for ...

3. Modern city planning has become  complex and so controlled by ...

4. Towns are built according to ...

5. Town planning can never ...

a) definite plans.

b) the work of a single individual.

c) the contribution of experts in many fields.

d) the regulated growth and improvement of towns.

e) financial interests.

Match the questions with the answers.

1. What does a true architect have to combine in his work?

2. Whose task is it to design buildings and make the plans for them?

3. What is the most valuable and significant contribution of architects to human living?

4. What helps architects to make good community plans?

5. What must architects plan?

a) town planning

b) art, advanced technology, science, and economics

c) the architect’s task

d) where streets are to run, parks are to be laid out

e) a cooperative work of different specialists in many fields

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