Regional planning

Short description: Land use planning above city or town level

Not to be confused with Regional studies.

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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. Regional planning is related to urban planning as it relates land use practices on a broader scale. It also includes formulating laws that will guide the efficient planning and management of such said regions.[1] Regional planning can be comprehensive by covering various subjects, but it more often specifies a particular subject, which requires region-wide consideration.[2]

Regions require various land uses; protection of farmland, 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.

## Contents

* 1 Nomenclature
* 2 Principles
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 Further reading
* 6 External links

## 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, regional planning may encompass more than one state, such as the Regional Plan Association, 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 the UK; both, however, are equally "regional" in nature.

## Principles

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:[3]

* 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 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 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 laws and policies that encourage the best use of the land.
* Allocation of land.

## See also

* Urban planning
* Regional planning organization
* Metropolitan planning organization (MPO)

## References

1. ↑ "Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Chapter 6 Regional Planning". American Planning Association Press. https://www.planning.org/growingsmart/guidebook/six01.htm.
2. ↑ Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. pp. 561. ISBN 9780415252256. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediacity00cave.
3. ↑ Ziafati Bafarasat, Abbas; Oliveira, Eduardo (2021). "Disentangling three decades of strategic spatial planning in England through participation, project promotion and policy integration". European Planning Studies 29 (8): 1375–1392. doi:10.1080/09654313.2020.1863920. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2020.1863920.

## Further reading

* Jonathan Barnett, Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda, ISBN 1-55963-806-0
* Patricia E. Salkin, Supersizing Small Town America: Using Regionalism to Right-Size Big Box Retail, 6 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 9 (2005)
* Peter Calthorpe & William Fulton, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl, ISBN 1-55963-784-6

## External links

* US National Association of Regional Councils
* Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal

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