The surveyor's role in the development of an urban construction plan in Israel
Shwarts, Orit and Moshe Felus
Mapping and information technologies have rapidly changed and developed in the recent years, thus creating a new workflow in urban design and planning. The traditional workflow which used to be graphic and paper-maps directed has changed into a digital process. Planning involves an adequate knowledge of engineering, the legal systems, and significant local facts. These local facts include the characteristics of the natural environment, such as relief and topography, and information about the existing statutory conditions of land use, particularly as it relates to the land rights. Hence, there is a need for systematic data collection phase that includes topographic mapping at a proper scale, and compilation of statuary and local maps and data of the project area. The phase is critical to the success of the project since the planning team depend upon these data to be of reasonable degree of exactness and completeness. This article focuses on the role of the surveyor in the development of an Urban Construction Plan in Israel starting at the initial architectural sketch through the detailed engineering planning which will leads smoothly to the construction phase. It describes the planning and land rights registration procedures and the duties of the surveyor in these interrelated processes.
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