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This paper will focus on discussing the Swan Valley urban planning and development plan that is aimed at providing guidance on the region’s upcoming developments. The Swan Valley wine region is located at East of Perth. The urban planning and development team purposed to design a plan that would prevent the splitting up of valuable and productive agricultural land section.
The plan is also devised to provide the necessary guidelines that would govern the manner with which new buildings should be erected so as to preserve the existing rural character of the region. At least six hundred thousand tourists visit the Swan Valley region annually and it generates approximately two hundred million US dollars every year which goes a long way to assisting the WA (Western Australia) government to conduct its tasks with much ease.
This region is eventually transiting from rural to urban setup which attracted the urban planners to devise ways in which the Swan Valley design will allow the area to maintain its traditional rural nature while in the same time attracting tourists all over the world. According to John Day, the planning minister, the present legislation procedures put across for the purpose of preserving this region are not sufficient.
He added that the draft plan had the potential to depict the manner with which the land should be used productively and how the buildings should be designed (Strutt, 2015). In addition to that, the planning minister insisted that there is great importance for the area to maintain its history regardless of the level of urgency or of transforming the region to fully urban. He continued to point out that the current signage advancements and building constructions were impromptu and that they did not actually give the appropriate picture of the Swan Valley.
These developments did not meet the minister’s expectations and did not actually exploit its full potential to attract tourists at home and also from other parts of the world. It was the minister’s suggestion that in order to maximize on the rate with which tourists visit the area, it would be essential if the area’s rich history be maintained. Following this debate on whether to preserve the rural character of the region or not, the draft plan is focused on inhibiting any unnecessary development. This is aimed at securing huge amounts of funds that can be used in to implement alternatively beneficial projects that will preserve the region’s natural aspect.
The region plan’s architecture is designed to utilize natural construction materials for example stone, iron and wood. This design will portray a sense of natural appearance contrary to the use of modern building materials such as glass and concrete. For the buildings coloring, the minister advised the Swan Valley planners to depress the use of bold colors on the newly erected structures and instead encourage the utilization of creamy colors, crimson oxide and federation emerald colors (Strutt, 2015).
The proposed draft plan is supported by John Griffiths, member of the Winemakers Association at the Swan Valley. He congratulated the planning minister for his exquisite idea to keep the design natural and rural. Griffiths claimed that the regions design would give the people a clear understanding of the lands heritage.
The plan was regarded as a new innovative way of providing the appropriate guidance on how to determine whether a particular structure is rural or urban and sensitize the people to know what is right. This natural oriented architecture will encourage people to keep the environment clean since once the structures have a ecological touch, then one will remember to always protect the surroundings from pollution.
In addition to the draft plan, there are strategies to create a Herne hill that will be positioned in the middle of the town for the purpose of overhauling the Swan Valley. However, the chairman of the Swan Valley planning committee, Mr. Derrick Tomlinson claimed that the implementation of the draft plan was tardy (Strutt, 2015). In addition to that, the chairman noted with a lot of concern that the Swan Valley plan would make the region to serve as an agricultural rich harbor that would attract tourists from all walks of life.
Western Australia government is focused on investing as adequate resources as possible to oversee the completion of the draft plan. This is because it has realized the great potential that the region possesses in that it will most likely double the number of tourists that visit the region therefore drastically inclining the revenue collected from the region. Being the leading producer of wine and agricultural products in Western Australia, Swan Valley have great prospective of growing more each year and providing more employment opportunities.
Moreover, the chairman observed that there was strong opposition against the plan which had led to the emergence of many debates and criticism on the matter (Strutt, 2015). The chairman insisted that he would use every resource at his disposal to ensure that the project is completed as planned since he is confident that the region will be highly beneficial to the people.
The link to the article is: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/swan-valley-draft-legislation-revealed/6858280 .
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Strutt, J. (2015, 10). www.abc.net.au . Retrieved 10 2015, from www.abc.net.au: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-16/swan-valley-draft-legislation-revealed/6858280
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Your discussion of the Swan Valley of East of Perth is a strong example of how heritage tourism can influence the planning and design of a particular region. The regulations that stipulate construction should be limited to "natural" material and colors remind me of the planning of Santa Barbara after a large earthquake had damaged much of the town in the 1920s. The city set out to enforce a strict Spanish Revival and Mission Revival aesthetic, limiting new construction in terms of color and exterior materials (mainly stucco). This created a cohesive image for the town, and it has functioned primarily as a tourist destination because of its "historic charm." Heritage tourism, however, has been criticized for its highly commercial focus. Toward the end of your post, you mention strong opposition to the plans for Swan Valley. Can you identify some the protestors and explain their position?
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The last world cup event in Brazil and the upcoming Olympic event in Rio, has put the country on the spot light. The flow of millions of people to Rio during this times, requires the City to be at its best condition as possible. Rio de Janeiro, with its beautiful beaches and views that draws millions of people yearly whether or not there is an event. With a population of 6.32 million people, a lot of sewage and waste has to collected and directed to somewhere which does not harm the environment and the water. How Ever, according to www.citylab.com, “Nearly 70 percent of the city's sewage spills, untreated, into the Atlantic Ocean and Guanabara Bay.”1 Unfortunately, the sewage gets collected at the beach and becomes visible for the visitors and also attracts rats and other trash loving animal. In addition, Rio is not the only city in Brazil who suffers from this disaster. As a result, in 2012, several states in Brazil have created “Sena Limpa”. They took action by starting off with 65 million investment in the first phase and another 87 million in the second phase. The initial plan was to have the beaches clean of garbage by 2014 however, the process has been slow. Another reason why this program has failed is because of the poorly illegal constructed sewage system. In other words, the “Sena Limpa” program does not prevent the pollution from getting to the beaches, it only collects the garbage after it has been dumped on the beach.
With the time getting closer to the Olympics, government of Rio has realized that a long term plan is needed in order to solve this issue. Therefore, they started a competition which involved different disciplines from all around the world to come up with a solution to the sewage problem of Rio. Amongst this firm, Brazilian-Spanish consortium the urban development contract. According to www.efe.com “The plan's priorities include improving basic sanitation, providing universal access to sewage systems and decontaminating Guanabara Bay, which washes the shores of most of these municipalities. The consortium also will prepare a plan for linking the transportation systems serving the 21 municipalities and establishing housing units near places of employment, as well as be tasked with identifying new business opportunities.”2 Besides solving the sanitation issue, this plan will also include housing and transportation development in Rio as well.
This development can be related back to our second week reading regarding “Urban Squalor, Sanitation and Progressive Reform”. In that lecture, we discussed the living condition of the people in mid-19th century in England. In the reading by Engels, we learned that the way he built his arguments were merely by him just walking in the city and reporting what he saw. Similar to Rio, One can easily spot the pile of garbage at some of the beaches. Even though the conditions of the working class has developed, still Rio is dealing with its water pollution.
We believe that the first and most important condition that should be provided for residents of a city is access to clean water. In case of Rio de Janeiro, due to the lack of good constructed sewage system and neglecting from the higher authorities, it has become impossible for the visitors of this beautiful city to not notice the piles of garbage. Unfortunately, the beaches are not the only place where the garbage is visible. In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, one has to be careful to not step or run into a pile of garbage while walking in the neighborhood. Since during the Olympics the focus of the visitors will be the beaches, the favelas have not gotten enough attention from the authorities on the sanitation issue.
Even though, the government of Rio announced that the plan to clean up the beaches will not be done before Olympics, there is not much attention to the favelas.
The government’s plan is very appropriate and necessary for the city and residents, but our research did not led us to any proposed solution for the poor health, water, and sewage quality in the favelas. It seems that the government is interested at solving the problems which in return will bring a lot of revenue for the higher authority.
Reference
1-http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/03/rios-relentless-beach-pollution/8729/
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