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.

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.

Sustainable Transportation and Land Development on the Periphery

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Ryan ◽  
James A. Throgmorton
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Land Development ◽  
High Density ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Development Patterns ◽  
Transit Service ◽  
Sustainability Planning ◽  
Planning Institutions

This paper examines two land developments in the cities of Freiburg (Germany) and Chula Vista (California) with the purpose of comparing their transportation and land use planning institutions, processes, and actions for the importance placed on achieving sustainability. Planning practitioners in both places are committed to concepts of sustainability, but their respective attempts to achieve sustainability differ dramatically. Freiburg is pursuing relatively high density land development in conjunction with transit service, while Chula Vista is pursuing relatively low density, auto-oriented land development patterns.

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.

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.

Upwards from the Plateau

1968 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
G. H. Bayly
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Future

The development of the forester's leadership role in forest land management is compared to rising profile of land between a sea or lake shoreline and a range of mountains, the progression is upward but the rate of climb changes. No plateau is identified. Reference is made to forestry leadership in several fields of forest land management; administration, land use, planning, research, forest management, recreational land use and fish and wildlife management. It is noted that forest land management includes activities for which foresters were not academically trained and reference is made to the fact that non-foresters, e.g. biologists and geographers are giving leadership in forest land management and thus providing beneficial competition and stimulation. The most important leadership role in the future may relate to regional planning. The forestry profession is cautioned not to abdicate this field to those in other disciplines.

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