40 Of The Worst Planning Examples That Were ‘Imposed On Our Environment’, According To This Twitter Page (New Pics)
The Twitter account '[Bad] Planning' calls itself a "celebration of all the [messed up] stuff imposed on our environment." And regardless of how you feel about the need to have one, the account gives exactly what it promises.
Focusing on everything from minor hiccups such as misleading road markings to more extreme cases of incompetence, like deadly-looking crooked turrets above a pedestrian lane, '[Bad] Planning' holds nothing back when calling out architects, planners, surveyors, engineers, and other "environmental ne'er do wells."
I guess it's true what they say, the bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of price is forgotten. (A statement the account proudly 'wears' on its cover image, too.)
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Currently, over 55% of the world's population lives in cities, and this is expected to rise to 68% by 2050, with nearly 90% of the increase in the urban population occurring in Asia and Africa. (For instance, the proportion of China's urban population has increased from 17.92% in 1978 to 58.5% in 2017).
The urbanization process has brought about the rapid socio-economic development of cities, yet its speed has also led to some development problems, such as over-consumption of resources, increasingly prominent pollution, frequent occurrence of 'urban diseases' and extreme weather events, continuous deterioration of living environment quality, etc., which have brought new challenges to sustainable urban design.
After experiencing three generations of historical paradigms including traditional, modernist, and green urban design, the technical concepts and methods of the practice have acquired some brand-new content with the increasing development of digital earth, smart city, internet, and artificial intelligence, further forming the fourth paradigm of digital urban design based on human-computer interaction.
This new paradigm takes the reconstruction of morphological integrity theory as the goal, the human–computer interaction as the approach, and the transformation of technical methods and tools as the core features.
Furthermore, digital urban design can play a key and supporting role in the preparation, implementation, and management of urban planning, highlighting the characteristics of history, culture, and landscape patterns, promoting fair and just social norms, and creating a livable and sustainable environment.
The digital city is one of the basic symbols of transformation from the industrialization era to the informatization era, which generally refers to the ability to effectively acquire, classify and store, automatically process and intelligently identify massive data in the category of urban natural, social, and economic systems.
Taking advanced information means to support the city planning, construction, operation, management, and emergency response can effectively improve the level of government management and service, and also promote the sustainable development of a city.
Tbh i dont like the perfectly trimmed tree, the one on the left is mich more pretty and natural
However, even if the fails we see in the pictures are becoming rarer, there's still the long-time conflict between urban development and historical protection.
Cities have been facing the dual challenges of renewal and decay, development and preservation. The general development trend of urban design for historical cities, historical blocks, and sections is to protect buildings and insert new ones through ‘weaving and patching’ on the premise of striving to preserve the original historical structure of the old city and the integrity of sections, thus forming an orderly progression of metabolism.
"Elite obstacle course"*. *Children must be supervised as this is very dangerous
Overall, the enormous variety of types of projects on which planners work, the lack of consensus over processes and goals, and the varying approaches taken in different cities and countries have produced great variation within contemporary urban planning. Nevertheless, although the original principle of strict segregation of uses continues to prevail in many places, there is an observable trend toward mixed-use development—particularly of complementary activities such as retail, entertainment, and housing—within urban centers.
City planning as practice and discipline relies upon public policy as an instrument for producing a more equitable and attractive environment that, while not radically altering human behavior, nonetheless contributes to improvements in the quality of life for a great number of people. So let's hope that even a Twitter account dedicated to sharing memes can help raise awareness and engage the broader public in discussions about city planning issues.
Ummm I don't see anything wrong with this it's just a door right? (please don't downvote I'm only 14 😋)
When you accidentaly multi-click ctrl+v a few times in cityscrapers (or whatever the hell that game is called)
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A general advice: Just because you cannot see the purpose of or the idea behind something, doesn't necessarily make it a bad solution.
I don't know. I mean there were a few houses without windows. Would that be rather claustrophobic?
They have skylights- prevents people looking in your windows when you live very close to the next house, and there is more wall space for furniture and stuff.
I'll be honest but a windowless house looks like a brick cave. What happens during a downstairs fire at night? Climb out the skylight and sit on the roof? Last thing I do each night and first thing each morning is look out of the window to see what the weather is like. I would miss the sun coming in. The sun also warms a room. I love a breeze coming in through an open window. Windows add ventilation. I have so many house plants that would die without a window. Natural light is better for ones mental health and depression. I could go on about the benefits of having a window. I have also lived very close to other houses. Every house nearby, including mine, had venetian blinds on their windows. No one can look in past the blinds.
These houses are so close that the windows wouldn't look outside- they'd look into the next house. At least the sky is there. Not saying I like it as a style, but there are reasons.
I also love windows, but I suppose there could be a benefit in cold places to keep the draft out and add insulation. Depending on where you live, you might have noticed how architecture changes based on climate. I live in a warmer area, so every room in my house has a window, even the bathrooms.
Photos do not show more than one side (at most two).
When, as an article editor, you confuse "design" for "architecture".
Lot of whining about practical choices here, stuff like fake grass/hard surfaces rather than grass might well be for elderly or disabled. Also stuff like a garage taking up a fair bit of your ground floor - what with exercise equipment, bikes and a workshop/tools I want more garage space not less especially if they can’t have a shed. Each to their own.
Most (like top: Plastic window in old church) are poor maintenance/ cheapskate caretakers. But title says "116 Architects" and URL says "planning-fails". Totally useless.
A general advice: Just because you cannot see the purpose of or the idea behind something, doesn't necessarily make it a bad solution.
I don't know. I mean there were a few houses without windows. Would that be rather claustrophobic?
They have skylights- prevents people looking in your windows when you live very close to the next house, and there is more wall space for furniture and stuff.
I'll be honest but a windowless house looks like a brick cave. What happens during a downstairs fire at night? Climb out the skylight and sit on the roof? Last thing I do each night and first thing each morning is look out of the window to see what the weather is like. I would miss the sun coming in. The sun also warms a room. I love a breeze coming in through an open window. Windows add ventilation. I have so many house plants that would die without a window. Natural light is better for ones mental health and depression. I could go on about the benefits of having a window. I have also lived very close to other houses. Every house nearby, including mine, had venetian blinds on their windows. No one can look in past the blinds.
These houses are so close that the windows wouldn't look outside- they'd look into the next house. At least the sky is there. Not saying I like it as a style, but there are reasons.
I also love windows, but I suppose there could be a benefit in cold places to keep the draft out and add insulation. Depending on where you live, you might have noticed how architecture changes based on climate. I live in a warmer area, so every room in my house has a window, even the bathrooms.
Photos do not show more than one side (at most two).
When, as an article editor, you confuse "design" for "architecture".
Lot of whining about practical choices here, stuff like fake grass/hard surfaces rather than grass might well be for elderly or disabled. Also stuff like a garage taking up a fair bit of your ground floor - what with exercise equipment, bikes and a workshop/tools I want more garage space not less especially if they can’t have a shed. Each to their own.
Most (like top: Plastic window in old church) are poor maintenance/ cheapskate caretakers. But title says "116 Architects" and URL says "planning-fails". Totally useless.