Master of Science in Spatial Planning Management & Designhttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/158652024-03-28T23:19:12Z2024-03-28T23:19:12ZSuitability of vertical Low -Income housing for urban poor in Colombo:Seneviratne KHAPNhttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/169142022-06-21T09:17:57Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZSuitability of vertical Low -Income housing for urban poor in Colombo:
Seneviratne KHAPN
Housing is a key human requirement. However, many in the modern world people are living in unsuitable houses. Recently, it has become a global problem and as a result many countries are paying attention to it and various housing strategies have emerged as solutions to low-income unsuitable settlements. According to Sri Lankan census, there are 68,812 families were living in temporary house with poor facilities within the Colombo city area (Sri Lanka’s Urban Regeneration Project continues unabated, 2020). To address this, issue the Sri Lankan Government has begun several housing programs and introduced housing policies during last decade. Out of those strategies vertical housing development became the main feature for unsuitable housing in Colombo city. Currently, more than 15,000 high rise housing units have been built for low-income people. Through the introduction of high rise buildings, another question arose on its suitability for human settlement. This has become one of the most popular topics among policy makers and professionals all around the world. In this study, an attempt was made investigate factors affection to the failure and success of vertical low-income housing in Sri Lanka by selecting low-income housing apartments in Colombo.
With the independence in 1948, housing policies have been applied to the housing sector in Sri Lanka. Condominium Property Act No. 12 of 1970 is the first legislation related to vertical housing developments in Sri Lanka. With the introduction of the Apartment Ownership Law No. 11 of 1973, the creation of huge scale tall buildings in Sri Lanka commenced.
This rule made an opportunity to convert a multi-storied apartment into a number of individual residential units which would then continue to be under a single ownership. The apartment ownership law was applied through the Condominium Act No. 45 of 1982 (Samaratunga & O'Hare, 2013).
However, settlements provided to the public in accordance with these policies do not possess better living environments for them as expected while creating numerous social problems. Hence, the management needs efficient and experienced professionals for relevant institution and authorities. This research recommends professionals and policy makers on what to concentrate on when proving settlements to low-income receiving people.
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZFlexible work hours for traffic management in peak hours:Kothalawala PMAhttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/169572022-06-21T09:17:33Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZFlexible work hours for traffic management in peak hours:
Kothalawala PMA
Traffic Congestion is one of the most intolerable problems in the most cities due to sudden
increase in privacy. Transportation affects urban society, environment and the economy.
Flexible Work Hour Implementation (FWH) is one of the important measures of traffic demand
management (TDM) which can use to spread out the vehicle volume and traffic congestion
during morning and evening peak periods. This study investigates taking different FWH
measure can adjust transportation volume on road and alleviate transport stress in peak hour in
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte area. Nowadays it has seen rapid growth in transportation demand
and serious road congestion in study area due to concentration of various functions and
activities. Therefore, the trip features of employees in study area and transportation status are
analyzed to implementing different working hour method as solution to reduce congestion. The
traffic applicability of FWH in the selected case study area is analyzed through relevant
statistics and social surveys. Finally evaluated the findings to find relationships among selected
road segments obvious road demand and road demand after Implementing the FWH. To
identified the effect of proposed TDM strategy on study area road segment at AM and PM
peak periods through employment trip generations. The t-test analysis from SPSS software
was used to derive the analysis outcome of prior and after implementing flexible work shifts of
employees on the traffic flow . The result shows that the impact of trips generated due to the
employment within the study area and proposed method shows considerable positive result in
some time periods to reveal the selected links at peak hours. But synthetically the final output
interpret it will as limited effect on FWH implement only in selected area to relieve total
congestion on peak hour traffic in considerable level.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZCritical assessment on the settlement categorization of Sri Lanka:Paranagama PWNMhttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/169132022-06-21T09:17:20Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZCritical assessment on the settlement categorization of Sri Lanka:
Paranagama PWNM
Settlements are categorized as urban and rural and various methods are used to define urban settlements and thereby to measure the level of urban in a particular country or city. Sri Lanka adopts a single criteria based on administrative approach and defines all Municipal Councils and Urban Councils are ‘urban areas’. In addition to the two categories; urban and rural, Sri Lanka defines another settlement category named ‘estates’ to identify plantations which are 20 acres or more in extent and with ten or more resident labourers. 30% of estates in Sri Lanka are located in the Nuwara Eliya District and 53% of its population belongs to estate sector. Although, estate communities lived in isolation and totally depended on the estate management for nearly a century, this situation began to change in late 1950s. By the end of 20th century, estate communities well mixed with other sector communities and had begun to move out from estates to town centers. Although, many new town centers are emerging within Nuwara Eliya District, and more of its estate communities now enjoy urban facilities and contribute to urban activities, its urban level was declined from 6.1% in 2001 to 5.6% in 2012. These figures are contradictory to what’s observed in ground.
There is indeed an issue with the current definition of ‘urban’ in Sri Lanka, thus it is the intention of this study to propose a new set of criteria to measure ‘urban’ and apply it to selected areas in Nuwara Eliya district to measure their actual urban levels. A framework of criteria based on four mandates lifestyle, access to facilities, aspirations and physical setting, was introduced. The application of the proposed criteria revealed that existing estate areas; Maskeliya, Ragala & Kotagala and Bogawanthalawa indicate a higher urban level than that of Thalawakele UC; which is an officially identified urban area
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZAn evaluation of the applicability of locational attractiveness modeling of retail activities in small commercial towns:Ranaweera RPShttp://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/169122022-06-21T09:18:03Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZAn evaluation of the applicability of locational attractiveness modeling of retail activities in small commercial towns:
Ranaweera RPS
Retailing is the dynamic and evolving urban function in many small towns in Sri Lanka especially the towns originated and evolving to provide services for the surrounding residential population. This function is closely related to the economy of such towns. Location decisions of those activities in the towns are taken by the retail investors and by retail dealers merely based on their observations and experience. Meantime planners use zoning as a planning tool of managing land use of such towns. They use existing land use and trends in land use patterns as a basis and employ many raster based analysis methods in defining zones. Anyway there are criticisms that those created zoning plans dose not leveraging the economy and the wealth of such towns.
This study attempted to develop a modeling framework for decision making in identifying most attractive areas in a town for retail activities which can be used for the planners and for retail investors as well.
Retailing dense area of the Piliyandala town in the Colombo district of Western Province, Sri Lanka used for the study. This area was divided in to possible retail segments through prominent boundaries. Gravity of each segment based on level of retail attraction was calculated through the model.
This gravity levels (Probability) of each segment was calculated using two views of attraction. They are attraction based on the identified parameters on individual site and the attractiveness derived from the location of the catchment area. The model gives exact boundaries for the retail zones as it taken the retail segments trough the prominent boundaries.
As possible applications of the model by changing variables (attraction parameters) can be examine how the gravity levels are changing in the segments. In that way many planning intervention can be tested before implementing them by using this model.
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