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urban planning

vr.tr.urban-planning · ACT.ACT

Let an agent explain urban planning and its scope, relay methods, instruments and national traditions from planning sources with attribution, describe current themes such as climate and transport planning, and distinguish urban planning from architecture, urban design, civil engineering and regional planning.

Thing Registry Activities and processes

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain urban planning and its scope, relay methods, instruments and national traditions from planning sources with attribution, describe current themes such as climate and transport planning, and distinguish urban planning from architecture, urban design, civil engineering and regional planning.

A technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use, the built environment and infrastructure in cities and regions, including transport integration, housing, public space, environmental and climate planning such as heatwave plans, and the emerging field of urban science, practised through plans, zoning and projects under national traditions such as city planning in Sweden or the Japanese shiku kaisei land readjustment; urban planning balances economic, social and environmental goals and is shaped by law, participation and politics.

What it is for: Shaping cities and regions.

It can be explain scope and methods; relay instruments and traditions; describe current themes; distinguish related fields.

Distinguishing features

Land use and infrastructure

Legal instruments

Public participation

Multi-scale

What it looks like

Not a visible object; plans, maps and regulations.

Physical character

modern discipline since: late 19th century period

key instruments: master plans, zoning, land readjustment list

urban share of world population: over 55 percent

How it is recognised

Planning of land use and the built environment

City and regional planning, transport integration, heatwave plans, urban science, city planning in Sweden, shiku kaisei

Architecture designs buildings; urban design shapes spaces; civil engineering builds infrastructure

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

spatial planning

is practised by - as a profession

urban planner

uses - as an instrument

zoning

is contrasted with - which shapes physical form

urban design

In practice

Families and kinds

comprehensive and master planning

zoning and development control

transport planning and transport integration

environmental and climate planning including heatwave plans

land readjustment such as shiku kaisei

national traditions such as city planning in Sweden

urban science and data-driven planning

Standards and regulation

National planning laws and building codes

Environmental assessment requirements

UN-Habitat and New Urban Agenda guidance

Professional accreditation of planners

Failure modes and hazards

Top-down planning without participation

Confusing planning with architecture or engineering

Partisan framing of planning disputes

Also called

heatwave plantransport integrationcity and regional planningurban scienceCity planning in Swedenshiku kaiseichronourbanismintegrated developmentCity and regional planningurban retail planningsmart growthneurourbanismKulturljudzonmachiwaricity planning (Japan)comprehensive planningSmart Cities MissionCopenhagenizedesurbanismurban planning in IranNew pedestrianismparticipatory planningurban planning in ChinaUrban planning in ShanghaiUrban planning in Singaporeurban development projectcity planning in Stockholmdistrict development plans

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What urban planning is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition and scope.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is urban planning, and how does it differ from architecture, urban design, civil engineering and regional planning? definition
  2. Is the question about planning in general, a method, a national tradition or a specific project? boundary

Instruments

Instruments.

Instruments

Instruments.

  1. What are master plans, zoning, development control and land readjustment such as shiku kaisei? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific instrument? action
Practice Practice.

Practice.

Process

Planning process.

Process

Process.

  1. How does a planning process run, from analysis and participation to adoption and implementation? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Themes

Current themes.

Themes

Themes.

  1. How do transport integration, heatwave and climate planning and urban science shape planning today? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Traditions Traditions and debates.

Attribution.

National

National traditions.

National

National.

  1. How do planning systems differ, for example in Sweden, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific system? action

Debates

Debates.

Debates

Debates.

  1. What debates surround density, housing, cars, gentrification and participation, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context History and theory.

Context.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did urban planning develop from ancient grids through Haussmann, garden cities and modernism to today? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of urban planning? action

Theory

Theory.

Theory

Theory.

  1. What theories, from rational planning to communicative and just city approaches, inform the field? provenance
  2. Which entry fits planning theory? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should zoning, transport planning and land readjustment be separate primary entries?
  • How should planning sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming themes and national traditions; should they be split off?