Urban City Planning

The layout our cities what we planned in groups.

Urban City Planning

This exercise was quite interesting. Adelina divided us for groups and she cleverly mixed us by natoionality, which resulted a great bunch of mixture of nationalities in each group. In my group four country, such as Hungary (Me), Manchester (Bilal), Pakistan (Itaqah) and Algeria (Imad) represented itself. The purpose of this was to bring famous buildings and country attractions from different countries into the planning.

In my group I was the Project Manager. It was a honorific role and I had a little experience being a leader of other people. We started with a draft paper and collected our ideas. I came up with Hungary's Town Hall - the Parlament, the famous look out point - Citadella, and a very famous square - Heroes Square. In Manchester we picked up the Trafford Centre and the Manchester United Stadium. From Pakistan we had an open, large market and Algeria brought us the Monumen, which is a huge statue with a shopping centre inside.

We taken into consideration that the famous places should be placed next to the river, which gives a nice layout for tourists. So we planned the town hall, museums, offices, universities, hotels, residental areas around the river. We were thinking about recycle - and industrial areas as well which we took far from the buzzing city centre. We tried to plan nice seating areas in city centre and lots of parks so people can feel and enjoy the nature a bit closer even if they are in the centre.

Actually, it was quite hard to keep planning everyting! We forgot some indispensable places, such as bus staions and train station.

Working in team was good, however sometimes it's hard. As a Project Manager, I wanted to hear all of my members' ideas and working together in the planning. I think everybody enyoyed this exercise and now I have a little experience what are the most important things in designing a city!

This video was great what Adelina gave us to watch:

'What do I like about my city? What would I change? What is the ideal city?'

In Manchester I would change lots of things. As I am from Eastern Europe, I got used to have nice parks and benches at every corner of the city. I hate when I walk with my friends and the only opportunity to sit down for a chat, is the pubs, pubs and pubs. The next thing on my list is Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street. They are so owercrowded, everyting is compressed to just one point of the city. I would plan lots of parks around the city centre to feel closer the nature.

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