Index of Development: Influence of City Plan Limits

Abstract

The development of modern cities is a complex living organism that includes both main zones of the city – central and peripheral. The most evident development is mainly in the peripheral zones which is caused by the enlargement of the cities. In case of development is important not to forget to the total development, because cities must work as one complex, in which every change is related to everything (for example these all are connected: road and technical infrastructure, residential, commercial and office buildings, industry zone, etc.). Primary tool for city planning is city plan and another city planning documentation, which determines the direction of development of partial city zones. But in case of development of cities exist many elements, which slow down the development. These include bad city plan, which should be appropriate for the development of the city, but often it’s not, and it is not able to react promptly to city situation. This situation is often inappropriate in designed or stabilised city zones. The result of a poor city plan is unusable city zones (land), which are either completely blocked, or there is only conditional use of these zones. These conditional use is not directly in concordance with city plan and expected development. Brno is the second biggest city in the Czech Republic, but there are big problems with city plan, moreover that Brno has old city plan, there are problems with land use and other limits which are created by collision of city plan and other limits set by any authorities. One of the biggest problem is connected to flood limits and collisions with city plan. The aim of this paper is in analysis of Brno designed residential zones and deduce the index of development level for parts of the city. The methodology is based on comparison of actual city zones in city plan and in the detection of blocked zones (plots) by any limits. The result of this paper is in given index of development based on ratio of blocked and no blocked plots by a found limit. This paper is aimed to limits of Brno city plan and possible influence of monitored limits to development index. Main focus of this paper is to residential zones, analysis of land intended for residential buildings and its limits. The outputs of this paper are useful for private/public sector and their decision making in investment and city planning.