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Urban planning involves contributions from many disciplines and deals with both new and existing city elements like land, buildings, roads, transportation and more. It can take several forms like strategic planning to set goals, land-use planning to determine zoning, master planning for new developments, urban revitalization to improve declining areas, economic development to foster growth, environmental planning to promote sustainability, and infrastructure planning to provide basic facilities and systems.

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Urban planning involves contributions from many disciplines and deals with both new and existing city elements like land, buildings, roads, transportation and more. It can take several forms like strategic planning to set goals, land-use planning to determine zoning, master planning for new developments, urban revitalization to improve declining areas, economic development to foster growth, environmental planning to promote sustainability, and infrastructure planning to provide basic facilities and systems.

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Urban planning involves the numbers of disciplines

1. Architecture
2. Engineering
3. Economics
4. Sociology
5. Public Health
6. Finance
7. Environmental
8. and more
Urban Planning deals with city-life elements, new and pre-existing
1. Lands
2. Buildings
3. Roads
4. Communal spaces
5. Transportation
6. Economic Development
7. Infrastructure
8. Environment
9. and others

7 Types of Urban Planning


1. Strategic Urban Planning- focuses on setting high level goals and determining desired areas
of growth of a city or metropolitan area. The result of planning process is Strategic Plan
(Strategic plan, development plan, core strategy, comprehensive plan)

Strategic plan's goals may include


- easing transportation throughout the city
- creating more community spaces
- improving citizen's quality of life
- encouraging people to visit or move to the city

Vision
Mission
Department Goals
Organizational goals

2. Land-Use Planning concerns the following


- Legislation and policy
-Adopting planning instruments like gov't statutes, regulations, codes, and policies to
influence land use Planning instruments deal with Type of land Location Amount of land
needed to zone Reserve land for certain purposes such as

1. Residential-for buildings like apartment homes, condo, single-family


2. Commercial- retail shops and office bldg.
3. Industrial- manufacturing plants and warehouses
4. Municipal- for structures like police stations and courthouses

3. Masters Planning is typically used for greenfield development projects or buildings on


undeveloped land. (Developing or starting from scratch)
- It envisions a future state for a given space and what it takes to achieve the visions
1. Regional or Municipal
a. Vision
b. Mission
c. Objectives

4. Required Zoning from land-use plan

5. Infrastructure

6. To make the project possible (residential, commercial land, transportation, road locations,

7. Urban amenities such as community facilities, schools, parks and the like.

8. Creating a Gantt Chart

4. URBAN REVITALIZATION- focuses on improving ideas that are in a state of decline


(decline as in declining businesses, stagnant or decreasing population growth.
Root cause of decline

Repairing roads Developing infrastructure Cleaning up pollutions Adding parks and other
public spaces

5. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -about identifying areas of growth to foster financial


prosperity within the city by building more offices and business establishments

6. ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
1. Environmental Planning is a type of strategic development that emphasizes
sustainability. Types of Urban planning considers the ff:
Air pollution
Noise pollution
Wetland
Habitats of endangered
Species
Flood zone
susceptibility
Coastal zone
Erosion
Environmental plans need to be filed alongside master, revitalization infrastructure
7. Infrastructure Planning deals with the fundamental facilities and systems that serve a city and its
people
1. Public works infrastructure such as water supply Sewage Electricity Telecommunications
2. Community infrastructure Schools, hospitals and parks Safety and transportations such as roads,
police, and fire facilities

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