Abstract
A master plan is a dynamic longterm planning document that provide a conceptual lay out to guide future growth and development. Master planning is about making the connection between buildings, social setting, and their surrounding environments. A master plan includes analyses, recommendations, and proposals for a site’s population, economy, housing, transportation, community facilities, and land use.
Khoun Municipality, Khoun District of XiengKhouang Province is also one of the third city in Lao PDR, it is one of the oldest city of the PHOUAN kingdom period. The municipality was established in the mountain area. The municipality was growth itself that it was many problems for the Khoun District Public Work and Transportation office as lack of access road, limited of land use for commerce, housing, market, transportation, public spaces…because more than 70% of the population who living in the municipality center work in the commercial sector and need their own housing plot by built their own houses without of the local government permission.
This master plan aims to explore the guide line to extend municipality center area for the future by analysis the strength, the weakness, the opportunity of each social and economic sector to develop this municipality center of Khoun District and to provide more land use for commerce, housing, market, transportation, public spaces, government places, education spaces, heritage protection area, electricity, water supply, waste water and sanitary system, solid waste management.The result could provide more 375 of housing plot of 600 m², 136 of commercial plot of 800 m², new government administrative offices for 20 ha, the necessary of the infrastructure and others. This master plan also provides the details of the guide line of the different areas regulation