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URP802:URBAN GOVERNANCE AND

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
Regional Planning

Dr.Bigith.V.B
Assistant Professor
Lovely Professional University
WHAT IS A REGION

• A region is an area on the earth’s surface


marked by certain properties that are
homogeneous inside and distinct from outside
it
• A region is have one or many similar
characteristics that make it unique from other
areas
CONCEPT OF REGIONAL PLANNING

Regional planning deals with


the efficient placement of land
use activities, infrastructure
and settlement growth across
a larger area of land than an
individual city or town
CONCEPT OF REGIONAL PLANNING

• Regional Planning is multidisciplinary approach aims at holistic development of a region.


• It is the science of efficient placement of infrastructure and zoning for the sustainable growth
of a region.
• Regional planning should be viewed as essentially a means to strengthen the National
economy.
OBJECTIVES OF REGIONAL PLANNING
• Conservation of life
• Conservation of Resources
• Conservation of Energy
• Community Education
• Sustainable Development
• Renationalization of Land Use
• Rationalization of Population Distribution
• Re constructing the Environment
• Perfect Regional Mobility System
IMPORTANCE OF REGIONAL PLANNING

1. To minimize the Regional Disparities


There are wide Regional Disparities in the levels of resource utilization as
well as in the levels of development. In order to minimize the Regional
Disparities, the developmental processes need to be channelized in the
right direction and need to plan properly.

2. To resolve the Critical Problems


• Broadly speaking, the way the environmental conditions are being
degraded and are posing a serious threat to the human welfare,
Regional Planning is becoming more and more of necessity rather than
a matter of choice.
3. To address the problems of rapidly increasing population
• The rapidly increasing population, has increased the pressure on
world resources tremendously, the developmental processes
should have to be based upon the principles of Regional
Planning.

4. To ensure the integrated development of Functional Regions


• In order to achieve an integral development of all such regions
without wasting the limited resources, all developmental
planning should have to be based upon the principles of
Regional Planning.
5. To recognize the futuristic Regional Realities
• Rapid development in the field of information and communication technology all over the world resulted
in revolution in the field of transportation and communication, broken the rural isolation and has
increased the interaction between rural-urban communities, etc.

6. Regional Planning for less developed Countries


• Most of the developing nations are poorly endowed and have innumerable task in hand in the process of
economic reconstruction and transformation. Moreover, they are technologically backward as well. Since
Regional Planning addresses itself to the host of problems, it has special significance for the less developed
countries.
TYPES OF REGIONS
These can be grouped as below
(1) Homogeneous regions : having one element ( physiography or cultural aspect) in common
(2) Nodal regions: area around one core / center region ( Delhi NCR)
(3) Functional regions: any function ( Economic activity ) in common
(4) Programming regions: special attention region ( hilly, tribal, flood prone areas)
(5) Administrative regions : state, district, block, village etc.
(6) Urban regions: Cities and Towns like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata.
THANK YOU

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