From Description to Prescription: Planning Intervention for Sustainable Beringin Watershed 2040

Abstract

Urban and Regional Planning is a process by which planners work together with various development actors to allocate available resources while also taking the long-term environmental sustainability, socio-economic, and equity components of development into account. Peter Hall (2002) states that planning is “the making of an orderly sequence of action that will lead to the achievement of a stated goal or goals with a spatial or geographical component, in which the general objective is to provide for a spatial structure of activities (or of land use) which in some way is better than the pattern that would exist without planning.” Referring to this definition, it is clear that Urban and Regional Planning is about prescribing spatial components of human living environment. This studio project allows the students to demonstrate their capability as prescriptive practitioners in developing the basic knowledge of the planning process, and their ability to understand the complex system of linkages that connects spatial elements with other elements in the human living environment.