Knowra Spatial planning Spatial planning Spatial planning organizes land use and development across places to coordinate housing, transport, infrastructure, environmental protection, and economic activity.
Land-use planning : The regulation and allocation of land for activities such as housing, industry, agriculture, and conservation. It translates spatial plans into rules governing what can happen on particular parcels.
Urban planning : The planning and design of cities and urban areas, including their land uses, services, and public spaces. It applies spatial planning to the growth and structure of urban places.
Urban sprawl : The spread of low-density urban development over formerly rural or undeveloped land. It is a growth pattern spatial planning often seeks to manage or contain.
Comprehensive planning : A public planning approach that coordinates land use, infrastructure, and services through an integrated long-term plan. It emphasizes broad, coordinated plans rather than isolated land-use decisions.
Garden city movement : A late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement promoting planned, bounded communities combining urban and rural qualities. Its proposals connected settlement form, green space, and regional growth.
Zoning : A system of land-use regulations that assigns permitted uses and development standards to mapped areas. Zoning is one legal tool for implementing a spatial plan.
Regional planning : Planning that coordinates development, infrastructure, and resources across a region spanning multiple local jurisdictions. It addresses settlement and investment patterns beyond individual municipalities.
Transit equity : The fair distribution of access to public transport and its benefits across social groups and places. Transport and land-use decisions can widen or reduce disparities in access.
Strategic spatial planning : A selective, action-oriented approach that sets priorities for spatial development across a territory. It focuses on a small number of strategic priorities rather than exhaustive regulation.
Patrick Geddes : A Scottish biologist and planner who developed regional survey methods and influential ideas about city planning. His survey-before-plan approach shaped how planners studied places before proposing change.
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