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    An Urban design approach towards local area planning : an application in Negombo M
    Welideniya, WCW
    The urban structure of Sri Lankan cities is more far behind considering the attractiveness, safety, competitiveness and its characteristics. Urban Planning process has been in Sri Lanka least contributes to spatial design of urban settlements. Existing planning process has been based on the land use activity approach which lacking behind the urban design of the settlement. Existing process. potential for a good urban structure merely ignored in the early stages of analysis and totally loosing the expected spatial form elements in the proposed plan. Hence. to be concern key component of urban form as well as to incorporated urban planning process of Sri Lanka. Previously. many researches had been done on urban planning and urban design but all studies had been adopted in western context. Those design strategies have not accommodated directly in Asian countries like Sri Lanka and have not addressed directly the urban form of the Asian Countries. This study attempts to give due consideration to shape these elements in to Sri Lankan situation in the context of geographical setting. culture. attitudes. behavior pattern, climate etc. Therefore, the study attempts to develop general strategies for the urban form of the Sri Lanka. It is based on the key elements of urban form namely, enrich the existing, make connections, work with landscape and mix use & form in order to insert and blend it into the present planning process and develop a conceptual framework based on the selected above urban form principles. Accordingly, It has been identified the general strategies through developing attributes into mechanism to implement the model concept. Ultimately, the study aims to construct a conceptual framework based on the above mentioned selected urban form principles. Part of Negombo Municipal Council was selected to experiment the spatial applicability of the strategies and demonstrate it as the case study.
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    State participation in investor driven housing delivery process : special attention to middle income housing in urban context
    Wasantha, KJ; Munasighe, J
    The rapid urbanization has resulted in unprecedented concentration of population into Western Province of the country. It evident that the suitable land and services are not sufficient for the comers is not enough at the moment. At the same time as an outcome of this population increase a large number of properties development projects are coming up. The involvement of state sector institutions. in addition to private sector developers in these projects is a new trend. Despite this trend there is a widespread argument about the success and failure of these projects. On the other hand indirect effects of these housing projects have cost time and money in most often. Housing is a sub sector in overall government policy framework. It provides the maintenance of labor productivity in broader terms. Theoretically housing is said to be a process and the House is the resultant product of this process. There are main four actors in this process. Their actions and decision determines the level of success of the outcome. The actors are State. Developers and Users. The involvement of these parties in projects differs from projects to project. It is examined that which part) can fultill the different task for the success of the housing process. The case studies taken in this research are mainly from middle income housing projects implemented in Western Province with the participation of different actors. It is revealed that the different task is more appropriate to allocate for certain party for the success of the project. Likewise the land provision can more appropriately be allocated to the State solely or in association with private sector. Since large extent of lands in western province is owned by State allocation of these lands for housing needs state participation. The private sector owing to its capacity and resources can successfully handle the design and construction component in housing project. This task has often not successful under state participation. In investor driven housing projects the uses responsibility would be to future management of the common elements in the project. his task is all importart and it needs a participatory approach. The legal background provides sut1icient strength for the users to handle this task.