URBAN PLANNING CONCEPTS

BASED ON SCALE
 Regional Planning
o Deals with urban issues at a larger scale
o Tools = resource management and development
o Not limited to environmental and socio-economic planning
 City planning
o Narrower than regional planning
o Inculcates the policies of the region and focuses on the quality of life in a bordered
city.
o Small city (town) = managed by single entity, big city = managed by group entities
(municipalities)
 Neighborhood Planning
o Neighborhood with boundaries
o Municipality as a neighborhood
o Asian Countries and Global South = “Neighborhood”, European Countries = “Block”
(smallest development)

BASED ON THE PRACTICAL APPROACH

  Strategic Urban Planning
o To devise, analyze, and recommend the best ways to develop the land (benefits
government and community)
o Parameters = inclusive, sustainable, and citizen’s quality of life
o City Zoning = economic, industrial, special zone, etc
o Comprehensive Plans (socio-economic plans) = developed 10-20 years that focused
on community or citizen development
 Land Use Planning (Zoning)
o Most common or ideal tool = new developments and retrofitting existing
developments
o Geographic Information System (GIS) = used to prepare land use data
o Helpful in analyzing issues and challenges
 Master Planning
o Urban Renewal Plans = city center, Urban Rehabilitation Plans = residential areas,
Urban Regeneration Plans = old marketplaces or mixed-used areas, urban
beautification = special areas
o Used synonymously as land use planning
 Infrastructure Planning
o Includes energy, water, communication, and transportation
o Government owned
 Environmental Planning
o Development with no interruption in nature and ecosystem
o Important aspect = impact of urban development on the environment, ecosystem, and
city’s planning policies
 Transportation Planning
o 15 minutes walkable city
o Efficiency of public transportation (accessible and affordable)
o Improvement of existing transportation networks
 Landscape Planning
o Landscape architecture
o Policies and regulations = protect nature, biodiversity, and ecosystem
BASED ON THEORETICAL APPROACH
 Inspired by time, age, movements, and personal ideologies
 Famous theories:
o Garden City = Ebenezer Howard = low population density with good housing, open
spaces, and wide roads
o Beautiful City = Daniel Burnham = aesthetically beautiful and visual enhancement
o Towers in Park = Le Corbusier = high-density energy-efficient city (house as a
machine)
o Decentralized Planning = Frank Llyod Wright = automobile mobility
 Other theories = sanitary movement, modernist planning, regional planning movement,
rational process approach, incrementalism, participatory planning, transactive planning,
advocacy planning, etc