Historical Overview and Influences of Planning Flashcards
having to do with cities
- Have a large population, that
means a lot of people live in one
area. - Have more than 50,000 people
- Land in urban areas are used for
taller buildings. - People often live in an
apartment building. - People in urban area use mass
transit for transportation
Urban
relating to a particular region,
district, area, or part as of a country; sectional;
local
Regional
means large amount of land
with low population, far from suburban
and urban areas.
could also be deserts or forests
- Have a very low population
- Have between 1 and 9,999
people living - People living in Rural area have
a lot of space, they can build
houses and other buildings like
barns. - They use the land more for
growing or hunting - People have to use cars for
transportation
Rural
Relating to the natural world and the impact of human activity on its condition
environmental
also known as urban and regional planning, city planning, town and country planning, and/or human settlements planning, refers to the multi-disciplinary art and science of analyzing, specifying, clarifying, harmonizing, managing and regulating the use and development of land and water resources, in relation to their environs, for the development of sustainable communities and ecosystems. (RA 10587)
Environmental planning
means land between rivers
“Fertile Crescent”
*Scope of the Tigris and Euphrates river systems
*Water as basis of urban development
MESOPOTAMIA
10,000 BC- 7TH CENTURY AD
was one of the early civilizations (MESOPOTAMIA)
SUMER
______ City- states created
_______ was power
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Religion
- Making an orderly sequence of actions to achieve stated goals
- Systematic process of establishing ends and determining means and procedures to achieve that end
Planning Definitions
“…refers to activities connected with the management and development of land, as well as the preservation, conservation and management of the human environment”
PD 1308 Section 2
“Environmental Planning, also known as urban and regional Planning, city Planning, town and country planning, and/or human settlements planning, refers to the multi-disciplinary art and science of analyzing, specifying, clarifying, harmonizing, managing, and regulating the use and development of land and water resources, in relation to their environs, for the sustainable development of sustainable communities and ecosystems”
RA 10587 Section 4 (a)
Planning and the 3 Key Actors
- State (Government/Polity)
- Market (Business/Economy)
- Civil Society (Citizen groups/Culture)
- Planning is conflictive, therefore political
- Power is necessary to carry out plans
-What is feasible politically instead of technically efficient or effective
- State (Government/Polity)
- Without Planning, land would be apportioned between competing uses by price mechanism
- Market (Business/Economy)