Intelligent systems on the Internet?

Principles of Intelligent Urbanism (PIU) emerged as a response to rapidly growing low income cities, with limited resources and inadequate infrastructure levels. Western city planning paradyms such as the Template:Garden Cities movement, Template:The New Urbanism and Template:Smart Growth have limited application to these conctexts. In many cases they are retrogressive in contexts which must address 'ability to pay' issues, employment generation and rapid rural to urban migration. The PIU address fragile environments, settings with strong building traditions, issues of social and economic opportunities and urban management. They are a set of ten axioms, laying down a value-based framework within which participatory planning can proceed (Caves 2004). After review and amendment by stake holders, the PIU acts as a consensual charter around which constructive debate over actual decisions can be evaluated and confirmed. It also guides urban planning procedures and decisions. The PIU begins with the preparation of a structure plan which addresses regional environmental, transport, trunk infrastruture, land use and activity systems. This leads into participatory, decentralized, micro-level planning around the concept of walkable Urban Villages. The PIU emerged from several decades of urban planning practice by Template:Christopher Benninger in the Asian context (Benninger 2001). It was the basis for the new capital plan for Template:Thimphu, Bhutan . The Principles of Intelligent Urbanism are: