SMX Convention Center • Seashell Drive, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City, Philippines • 23-26 April 2009
Sustainable Spatial Neighborhood
Design in Land Use Planning
Towards an Acceptable
Walkable Distances
of Neighborhood
Activities in the Built
Environment Using GIS
The researcher proposed model is a supplemental spatial design,
called KABATI-an, which aims to take-off from currently used
approaches, especially CLUP model approach used by the
HLURB. The word ‘Kabati’ means ‘you are one or together’ in
all aspects of endeavor. KABATI’-an is an acronym for: KA for
kabarangay (community) or kabarrio (barrio/area) or kalapitbahay (house neighbor); BA for bahagi (part/portion) or bahay
(single house /building) of a neighborhood; TI for tipak (block);
and AN for daan (street) and daanan (passage/ passageway).
The model is essentially unique as it addresses the need for a
barangay-level sustainable urban land use planning approach
that focuses on criteria assessment and performance indicators
in accessibility; potential delivery & catchment population;
efficiency & effectiveness of local activities, built places, & natural
resources, and transport cost. For comments and suggestions,
you may contact the author via email [email protected]
or text 0919 6453935.
The focus of this paper is sustainability in the built
environment, where adjoining location of facilities in living,
working, playing and including praying activities in the
barangay, is viewed to be safe and healthy. It compares
ideal walkable distances in the highly urbanizing barangay
in an adjoining municipality of an emerging region in the
Philippines. It used two (2) performance indicators using
the computer-aided tool of the Geographic Information
System (GIS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS). These
are in: a) catchment population (gross residential density
in per person per hectare (ppha) and catchment area
radius (in meters); and b) efficiency & effectiveness of local
built facilities in meter distances at minimum reasonable
accessibility standards or walkable distances at different
gross densities (ppha).
Discussions of the paper compare the existing conditions
in Barangay Sto. Tomas, Binan, Laguna to a pre-selected
ideal catchment radius of 100 persons per hectare (ppha)1
within distances of local activities in a direct line radius
application using GIS.
The outputs are the spatial framework plan and
developing acceptable walkable distance standards. The
expected results are centered in deriving exact built facilities
and averages of its walkable distances in the thirteen
(13) villages of Barangay Sto.Tomas. It further developed
acceptable sustainable policies in a catchment population
thru GIS/GPS composite analysis maps for: public transport
routes & nodes; green space/waterways system; pedestrian
accessibility system; main network of streets and roads; and
the land use pattern and density gradient.
The ideal walkable distances2 in local activity /services
destinations is accounted for parks/open spaces (200m);
local shops (200m); nursery school(400m); elementary
school (500m); community center (500m); pub/eateries,
post office, local center/barangay hall, if any, (600m);
secondary school (private) (700m); health center ,4d
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(800m); secondary school (large) (1,000m); district center/
superstore, and leisure center(1,200m). In minutes and hourly
time compared to meters, it is: ½ hour walk = 100 m, 1 hour
= 200 m, 2 hours = 400 m, 4 hours = 800 m, 5 hours = 1,