Concept information
Preferred term
urban planning
Definition
- Urban planning is a process of design and regulation that seeks to improve the built, economic, and social environments of cities. Planning deals with physical aspects, such as the placement and design of new buildings and infrastructure, as well as the regulation of these places after they are built. [Source: Encyclopedia of Street Crime in America; Urban Planning]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- advocacy planning
- annexation
- City Beautiful movement
- city planning
- community development
- convention centers
- exclusionary zoning
- garden city
- gender equity planning
- general plan
- growth management
- planning theory
- themed environments
- tourism
- town planning
- urban decentralisation
- urban design
- urban development
- urban renewal
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/urban_planning
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