Knowra Regional planning Regional planning Regional planning coordinates land use, infrastructure, and public services across multiple local jurisdictions. It addresses shared systems and growth patterns that cannot be managed effectively within municipal boundaries alone.
Metropolitan planning organization : A federally recognized body that coordinates transportation planning among local governments in a U.S. urbanized area. These organizations provide a formal forum for coordinating regional transportation investment.
Growth management : Policies that guide the pace, location, and form of urban and regional development. It directs where regional growth occurs and how its costs are distributed.
Municipal planning : Planning conducted by a city or town for land use, services, and development within its jurisdiction. Regional planning addresses spillovers that municipal plans cannot resolve independently.
Urban sprawl : Low-density, car-dependent expansion of urban development into surrounding areas. Uncoordinated local development can produce regional sprawl and costly infrastructure demands.
Patrick Geddes : A Scottish biologist, sociologist, and planner known for linking cities to their surrounding regions. Geddes argued that cities should be understood through their wider geographic and economic settings.
Comprehensive plan : A policy document that sets a local government's long-term direction for land use, infrastructure, and community development. Local comprehensive plans supply policies that regional strategies must reconcile across jurisdictions.
Transit-oriented development : Compact, mixed-use development concentrated near high-quality public transportation. Regional plans can align station investment and surrounding development across municipal lines.
Urban planning : The planning of land use, transportation, public space, and development in urban areas. Regional planning extends urban-planning concerns across cities, suburbs, and surrounding landscapes.
Commuting : Regular travel between a person's home and workplace or place of study. Regional land-use and transport choices shape commute distances, routes, and travel modes.
Regional planning association of America : A group of planners and reformers that promoted regional planning in the United States in the early twentieth century. Its members advanced regional approaches to urban growth and settlement patterns.
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