scholarly journals Land-Use Planning Methodology and Middle-Ground Planning Theories

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandros Lagopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Procedural Planning ◽  
Planning Methodology ◽  
Planning Approaches

This paper argues that a monolithic land-use planning “grand narrative” is not sufficiently flexible, but that the fragmentation into innumerable “small narratives” goes against any sense of the existence of an established domain of knowledge. Its aim is to explore the epistemological possibility for “middle ground” theories. The methodology adopted for this purpose is to take as a standard reference the methodological components of comprehensive/procedural planning and to measure against them the methodologies proposed by a corpus of other major land-use planning approaches. The outcome of this comparison is that for more than half a century, planning theories in the field of urban and regional planning have been revolving incessantly around the methodological components of the comprehensive model, which seem, at least at the present stage of our knowledge, to be the universal nucleus of the land-use planning enterprise. This paper indicates on this basis the prerequisites for the construction of middle-ground land-use planning theories and how we can pass from the formal contextual variants to real life contexts through the original articulation of planning theory with input from the findings of the actual planning systems.

scholarly journals GIS Buildout Analysis and Urban Planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150006
Author(s):  
Carlos J. L. BALSAS
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
The Town

A buildout analysis is an important methodology in land-use planning. The GIS technicalities of doing a buildout analysis tend to be the purview of professionals with a background in geographical sciences. However, it is argued that planners ought to be able to conduct buildout analysis in order to develop a better understanding of how land-use patterns could change sustainably over time depending on a community’s regulatory environment and pace of development. A state buildout analysis is compared and contrasted with buildouts conducted for two local jurisdictions on the opposite ends of Massachusetts: the towns of Amherst and Georgetown. The town of Amherst’s computations identified lower values of developable and new commercial/industrial land and 1,878 more new dwelling units than the state-led planning initiative three years earlier. In the case of Georgetown, the UMass Amherst planning consultancy identified lower values of developable land and fewer new dwelling units and 3.5 million square feet more of new commercial/industrial land than the state-led analysis. A series of implications for teaching buildout analysis in Urban and Regional Planning studio courses is presented.

scholarly journals Spatial Conservation Prioritisation as Part of a General Land Use Planning Process 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuuli Toivonen ◽  
Johanna Kuusterä ◽  
Joel Jalkanen ◽  
Aija Kukkala ◽  
Joona Lehtomäki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Planning ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Spatial Conservation Planning ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Conservation Prioritisation

Abstract CONTEXT. Land use decisions are essential for reaching of biodiversity conservation targets. Usually, conservation is planned separately from other land use, using specialised approaches such as spatial conservation planning and prioritisation (SCP). This separation of processes makes it difficult to optimise between competing land uses or to plan for land sharing solutions. OBJECTIVES: We present a real-life planning case where SCP was integrated to regional planning process from early on. The aim is (i) to present the process and its results, and (ii) based on the experiences, to evaluate and discuss the potential and challenges of integrating SCP to a general land use planning. METHODS: We present the regional planning of the Helsinki-Uusimaa region in Finland where SCP was integrated as part of the general land use planning process between 2014 and 2018. We applied Zonation software and a diverse collection of spatial biodiversity data and carry out various spatial prioritizations guided by planners and environmental experts. We compared the priority areas to future plans (Uusmaa 2050). RESULTS: We show high spatial variation of biodiversity in Uusimaa region and SCP is able to highlight sites of high importance for biodiversity aware planning. Roughly 70% of biodiversity is outside protection by the Uusimaa 2050 plan draft.CONCLUSIONS: While SCP is relatively well-known by ecologists and nature conservationists, its concepts, framework, and tools are usually not familiar to general land use planners. Integration of SCP can yield to better decisions, but new practices require sufficient resourcing and tight collaboration between the parties.

Land Use Planning and its Potential to Reduce Hazard Vulnerability: Current Practices and Future Possibilities

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Puszkin-Chevlin ◽  
Debra Hernandez ◽  
James Murley
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Coastal Development ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Policy Objectives

The concentration of people and infrastructure along the nation's coastline has increased our vulnerability to severe coastal storms and other natural hazards, as evidenced by the substantial social, economic and environmental impacts of recent hurricanes. Competing policy objectives and stakeholder interests pose challenges to planners' and public officials' attempts to increase resilience using land development-based approaches. This paper describes theses issues for researchers outside the urban and regional planning discipline. It presents the typical approaches to hazard mitigation and the primary land-use tools used to manage coastal development. It strives to inspire interdisciplinary visioning of sustainable coastal development patterns needed to advance resiliency.

Geography applied

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Bennett ◽  
Alan G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Earth Sciences ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Country Planning

This chapter discusses the main trends and the most prominent focuses of research regarding geography as an applied discipline. It concentrates on the contributions of geographers in Britain and the applied developments in human geography. The development of physical geography and earth sciences has been particularly influential on the development of applied geography at various stages. The chapter also examines regional planning and policy, town and country planning, land use planning and other specific fields.

Planning Ethics in the Age of Wicked Problems

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Chan Kok Hui
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Administrative Discretion ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
Urban And Regional Planning ◽  
Ethical Discourse ◽  
The Face ◽  
Plan Making

Ever since the publication of Rittel and Webber's Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning in 1973, the discourse on wicked problems has grown steadily in planning and other disciplines. Despite this, there has been little attention paid to the ethical dimensions of wicked problems. What are the ethical dimensions of wicked problems in planning and specifically, in e-planning? To answer this question, the author examines planning ethics in relation to the discourse on wicked problems. Following Hendler's framework (2001) on planning ethics, which comprises of five distinct discourses—namely, (i) the ethics of everyday behavior; (ii) the ethics of administrative discretion; (iii) the ethics of planning techniques; (iv) plan making; (v) normative planning theory—the author discusses each in relation to the discourse of wicked problems to draw out their ethical dimensions in the context of urban and regional planning. Through these discussions, the author argues that e-planning should engage with the discourse of planning ethics, and further, that e-planning can begin to develop its own ethical discourse in the face of wicked problems in planning today.

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