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Regional planning is a branch of land use planning
Land use planning

Land use planning is the term used for a branch of social policy which encompasses various disciplines which seek to order and regulate the land use in an efficient and ethical way....
 and deals with the efficient placement of land use activities, infrastructure and settlement growth across a significantly larger area of land than an individual city or town. The related field of urban planning
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
 deals with the specific issues of city planning. Both concepts are encapsulated in spatial planning
Spatial planning

Spatial planning refers to the Method s used by the public sector to influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales....
 using a eurocentric definition.

ough the term ‘Regional planning’ is nearly universal in English speaking countries the areas covered and specific administrative set ups vary widely.






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Regional planning is a branch of land use planning
Land use planning

Land use planning is the term used for a branch of social policy which encompasses various disciplines which seek to order and regulate the land use in an efficient and ethical way....
 and deals with the efficient placement of land use activities, infrastructure and settlement growth across a significantly larger area of land than an individual city or town. The related field of urban planning
Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
 deals with the specific issues of city planning. Both concepts are encapsulated in spatial planning
Spatial planning

Spatial planning refers to the Method s used by the public sector to influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales....
 using a eurocentric definition.

Nomenclature

Although the term ‘Regional planning’ is nearly universal in English speaking countries the areas covered and specific administrative set ups vary widely. In North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, regional planning may encompass more than one state (such as the ) or a larger conurbation or network of settlements. North American regional planning is likely to cover a much larger area than the Regional Assemblies of England
England

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, but both are equally ‘regional’ in nature.

Regional planning

Regions require various land use
Land use

Land use is the human modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. The major effect of land use on land cover since 1750 has been deforestation of temperate regions....
s; protection of farmland
Farmland preservation

Farmland preservation is a joint effort by non-governmental organizations and local governments to set aside and protect examples of a region's farmland for the use, education, and enjoyment of future generations....
, cities, industrial space, transportation hubs and infrastructure, military bases, and wilderness. Regional planning is the science of efficient placement of infrastructure and zoning for the sustainable growth of a region. Advocates for regional planning such as new urbanist Peter Calthorpe, promote the approach because it can address region-wide environmental, social, and economic issues which may necessarily require a regional focus.

A ‘region’ in planning terms can be administrative or at least partially functional, and is likely to include a network of settlements and character areas. In most European countries, regional and national plans are ‘spatial’ directing certain levels of development to specific cities and towns in order to support and manage the region depending on specific needs, for example supporting or resisting, polycentrism
Polycentrism

Polycentrism is the principle of organization of a region around several political, social or financial centres. An example of a polycentric city is the Ruhr area in Germany: Today, the area is a large city that grew from a dozen smaller cities....
.

Principles of regional planning

Specific interventions and solutions will depend entirely on the needs of each region in each country, but generally speaking, regional planning at the macro level will seek to:

  • Resist development in flood plains or along earthquake faults. These areas may be utilised as parks, or unimproved farmland.


  • Designate transportation corridors using hubs and spokes
    Spoke-hub distribution paradigm

    The hub-and-spoke distribution paradigm is a system of connections arranged like a chariot wheel, in which all traffic moves along spokes connected to the hub at the center....
     and considering major new infrastructure


  • Some thought into the various ‘role’s settlements in the region may play, for example some may be administrative, with others based upon manufacturing or transport.


  • Consider designating essential nuisance land uses locations, including waste disposal.


  • Designate Green belt
    Green belt

    A green belt or greenbelt is a policy or land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural landscape surrounding or neighbouring urban areas....
     land or similar to resist settlement amalgamation and protect the environment.


  • Set regional level ‘policy’ and zoning which encourages a mix of housing values and communities.


  • Consider building codes, zoning
    Zoning

    Zoning is a device of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries . The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another....
     laws and policies that encourage the best use of the land.


See also

  • Spatial planning
    Spatial planning

    Spatial planning refers to the Method s used by the public sector to influence the distribution of people and activities in spaces of various scales....
  • Growth management
    Growth management

    Growth management is a set of techniques used by government to ensure that as the population grows that there are services available to meet their demands....
  • Land use planning
    Land use planning

    Land use planning is the term used for a branch of social policy which encompasses various disciplines which seek to order and regulate the land use in an efficient and ethical way....
  • Regional Planning Councils
    Regional Planning Councils

    Regional Planning Councils are quasi-governmental organizations that are designated by Florida law to address problems and plansolutions that are of greater-than-local concern or scope, and are to be recognized by local...
  • Regional Assemblies
    Regional assemblies

    Regional assembly can refer to:*ARMM Regional Legislative Assembly, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines, see Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao#Politics...
  • Urban planning
    Urban planning

    Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities....
  • Zoning
    Zoning

    Zoning is a device of land use regulation used by local governments in most developed countries . The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another....
  • Transportation planning
    Transportation planning

    Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of transportation facilities .Transportation planning historically has followed the rational planning model of defining goals and objectives, identifying problems, generating alternatives, evaluating alternatives, and developing the plan....
  • Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
    Principles of Intelligent Urbanism

    Principles of Intelligent Urbanism is a theory of urban planning composed of a set of ten axioms intended to guide the formulation of city plans and urban designs....


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Further reading

  • Jonathan Barnett, Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda, ISBN 1-55963-806-0