Knowra Land-use planning Land-use planning Land-use planning allocates and regulates land for activities such as housing, industry, conservation, and agriculture. It coordinates development, infrastructure, and environmental goals across places and over time.
Zoning : Zoning divides land into districts and regulates the activities and building forms permitted in each. It is a common legal tool for assigning different uses to land.
Urban planning : Urban planning guides the physical development and organization of cities and towns. It applies land-use decisions to the scale and interconnected needs of urban places.
Urban sprawl : Urban sprawl is the low-density, automobile-oriented expansion of urban development into surrounding areas. Dispersed development is one possible outcome of land-use decisions that favor outward growth.
Smart growth : Smart growth is an approach that promotes compact development, mixed uses, and efficient use of infrastructure and land. It contrasts with land-use patterns that accommodate dispersed, car-dependent expansion.
City Beautiful movement : The City Beautiful movement was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reform movement that used civic design to promote urban order and public life. Its civic-improvement agenda influenced early efforts to guide urban development.
Comprehensive plan : A comprehensive plan sets a community’s long-term goals and policies for land, infrastructure, and public services. It provides the policy framework that guides local land-use decisions.
Agricultural land preservation : Agricultural land preservation uses policies and programs to keep farmland available for agricultural production. It limits conversion of productive farmland to other uses.
Environmental justice : Environmental justice concerns the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens and meaningful participation in related decisions. Land-use decisions can concentrate pollution or hazards in particular communities.
New Urbanism : New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes walkable neighborhoods, mixed uses, and traditional town forms. It emphasizes neighborhood form and design within broader land-use decisions.
Garden city movement : The Garden City movement, founded by Ebenezer Howard, proposed planned communities combining urban and rural advantages. Its model linked settlement design with deliberate control of surrounding land.
Show all 27