Principle of Intelligent Urbanism(part seventeen)

Principle six:human scale

PIU encourages formation of walkable, pedestrian oriented urban villages.

All this concept is a consequence of an urban planning and politics, aiming friendly and free meeting of people.

PIU concept is the promotion of pedestrian circulation as opposed to the car-traffic.

Intelligent Urbanism aiming removing artificial barriers and helps face-to-face contact.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part sixteen)

Social facilities and public services are also part of PIU. These services are delivered cost per unit to citizens.

Balance should be found between over-capitalized mega systems and low-density individual systems.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part fifteen)

Intelligent Urbanism takes efficiency promotion in cost effective manner.

In this point of view efficiency relies also on positive and good city planning. This planning promotes some alternative transports, opposed to a dependence on personal vehicles. It means the promotion of public transport, accessible to anyone.

PIU helps complementary social amenities, convenience shopping, recreation, public services in compact.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part fourteen)

The fifth principle of Intelligent Urbanism is efficiency.

Efficiency seeks the balance between everyday consumption and everyday resources such as energy or fiscal resources and time management. This principle encouraging sharing of public beholds, like public land, facilities or services.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part thirteen)

1.4.City domain places(part one)

One principle of Intelligent Urbanism is the calling for city domains.

All these public places are plazas, parks, promenades, and so on.

These places are social places, accessible to anyone. Some social places places are free, but museums, for example are accessible for a fee. Public places are regulated by human behavior.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part twelve)

1.3. Community places

The concept of PIU is to design dense, walkable zones in which habitants can recognize each other. The aim for them is also to share facilities and their resources, too.

Community places are opportunities to meet new people, make friendships, and to be active in management services.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part eleven)

1.2. Community places

Rural villages and social bonds are merely similar, founded for security, for finding social spaces, common resources.

According to Urban Villages, common resources must be managed by the community.

As PIU defines, Urban Villages are the bases of municipalities.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part ten)

1.1:Community places

Next principle of Intelligent Urbanism is the community level.

Historical background of communities goes back to tribes sharing social and cultural behavioral patterns.

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism calles modern communities Urban Villages.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part nine)

Intelligent Urbanism helps social groups to live peacefully with one another.

The place for the neighbourhood is a place for social contract and social relations amongst large social groups. Neighbouring communities should maintain and care about main infrastructure, preventive health.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part eight)

PIU is a place for householders, too. Places for householders are places for homes, for intimate companions, for young workmates.

In these domestic places families and other groups carry out their daily lives.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part seven)

Intelligent Urbanism aims to target forming places for friendships also.

The philosophy is that these places are not natural. All these places must be designed conscientiously in urban environs.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part six)

The fourth principle,conviviality, is the philosophic axiom of PIU theory. This basic principle derives from fact that PIU creates places of solitudes for the individual.

These places can be forests in towns, urban hills, public gardens. Here are the "dialog places with rational minds",reminding to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Although Intelligent Urbanism helps individuals to mature and grow through self-analysis and self-realization.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part five)

Appropriate technology is another principle of Intelligent Urbanism. It's aim is to promote local infrastructure related to regionality.

Here the context of appropriate technology should fit. "Small is beautiful", according to Appropriate Technology. (to be continued)

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part four)

Another important basic of PIU is a Balance with Tradition.

Balance with Tradition has for aim to integrate urban planning with cultural heritage and tradition.

Balance with Tradition respects cultural assests of urbanism.

This axiom seeks wisdom to accord planning with human settlements.

Balance with Tradition promotes architecture related to cultural values.

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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part three)

Nowdays deforestations, desertifications, erosions, fires accelerate.

This process is the result of breaking of a fragile point which is crossed.

When the border is crossed there is a point of no return when eco-system loses its ability to restore itself. So at that point degradation accelerates.

PIU theory supposes and proposes the reserve of these fragile eco-systems, so PIU theory is that urbanization must be in balance with natural environs.

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part two)

The first and one of most important philosophy of Intelligent Urbanism is the balance with nature and surrounds.

This balance with nature emphasizes the utilization of resources and the distinction of exploiting resources.

The principle of "balance with nature" axiom is first of all to identify fragile environmental surrounds,threatened ecosystems and help their conservation.

This philosophy promotes also the life cycle building energy consumption and analysis of pollution.
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Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(part one)

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism(PIU) is related to urban planning and a theory, aiming to guide the formulation of city planning and urban design.

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism include heritage conservation,environmental sustainability,infrastructure efficiency, regional integration, "Social Access", etc, etc.

The term PIU was created by Prof. Christopher Charles Benninger.

PIU has arised from city planning guide formulated by the International Congress of Modern Architecture(CIAM).

Wildlife Preserves-Part Thirteen

There are also voles living in this nature. These animals are small creatures, like mouses.

They live in their tunnels, built through grass.

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Wildlife Preserves-Part Twelve

Arctic foxes live their lives as monogamous pairs, although breeding their puppies. Reaching the age of six months puppies learn to live somehow adult life. Although reaching the age of one, lot of them perish.

Older adult foxes hide food for the lean season.

Another species of Wildlife Preserves of that era are birds, called Ptarmigans. They spend most of their lives on ground.
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