Functionality of the Town Planning Authorities in Effecting Urban and Regional Planning Laws and Control in Nigeria: The Case of Lagos State

The Islamisation of the town planning education in Malaysia especially in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) could successfully be materialized via the smart team-teaching approach where lecturers from the town planning Department collaborate with their counterpart in the Islamic studies Kulliyyah. This paper reports a desk study on the status of Islamic inputs in the current town planning course content. Out of 140 credit hours of town planning core courses and University required courses, it was found that 34% have already embodied Islamic-related topics whilst the remaining 66% were silent. Enhancements via compatible Islamic inputs to strengthen the existing curricula need to be done for the former while for the latter new Islamic inputs need to be incorporated. This paper reiterates that the epistemological and methodological approach combined is the way forward for sustainable education.

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ISLAMISATION OF TOWN PLANNING EDUCATION: A REVIEW ON THE COURSES OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pm.v14i4.159 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Azila Ahmad Sarkawi ◽

Alias Abdullah ◽

Norimah Md Dali

Keyword(s):

Regional Planning ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Town Planning ◽

Urban And Regional Planning ◽

Course Content ◽

Credit Hours ◽

Planning Education ◽

The Status ◽

Planning Department ◽

The Town

The Islamisation of the town planning education in Malaysia especially in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) could successfully be materialized via the smart team-teaching approach where lecturers from the town planning Department collaborate with their counterpart in the Islamic studies Kulliyyah. This paper reports a desk study on the status of Islamic inputs in the current town planning course content. Out of 140 credit hours of town planning core courses and University required courses, it was found that 34% have already embodied Islamic-related topics whilst the remaining 66% were silent. Enhancements via compatible Islamic inputs to strengthen the existing curricula need to be done for the former while for the latter new Islamic inputs need to be incorporated. This paper reiterates that the epistemological and methodological approach combined is the way forward for sustainable education.

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GIS Buildout Analysis and Urban Planning

Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies ◽

10.1142/s2345748121500068 ◽

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.

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Thesis Abstracts. T.I. Gunton. "Evolution of Urban and Regional Planning in Canada, 1900-1960." Ph.D. Thesis, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 1981 Elizabeth Bloomfield. "City-building Process in Berlin / Kitchener and Waterloo, 1870-1930." Ph.D. Thesis, Department of History, University of Guelph, 1981 G. Drangushan. "Regional Planning in Alberta: The Evolution of Alberta's System of Regional Planning Commissions." M.A. Thesis, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 1979 D. Hinds. "The Evolution of Urban Public Park Design in Europe and America: Vancouver Adaptation to 1913." M.A. Thesis, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 1979 S.L. Kelly. "Senior Citizen Housing in Edmonton: A Spatial Perspective." M.A. Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Alberta, 1980 R.G.F. Higgings. "The Role of the State in the Development of Town Planning in England, 1875-1909." M.A. Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Alberta, 1980 Sara D.S. Gibson, "Sense of Place - Defence of Place: A Case Study of the Toronto Island." Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 1981 Irene E. Robertson. "The Business Community and the Development of Victoria, 1858-1900." M.A. Thesis, Department of History, University of Victoria, 1981

Urban History Review ◽

10.7202/1019074ar ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 67

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Regional Planning ◽

Senior Citizen ◽

Town Planning ◽

Business Community ◽

Public Park ◽

Urban And Regional Planning ◽

University Of Alberta ◽

University Of British Columbia ◽

Role Of The State

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Assessment of Public Compliance with Development Control Regulations in Auchi, Edo State, Nigeria

The Indonesian Journal of Planning and Development ◽

10.14710/ijpd.5.2.78-86 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 78-86

Author(s):

Daniel Nosakhare Onaiwu

Keyword(s):

Town Planning ◽

Development Control ◽

Eta Squared ◽

Population Sizes ◽

Practical Effect ◽

Edo State ◽

Economic Developments ◽

And Control ◽

The Town ◽

Medium Correlation

The spatial structure of modern settlements is organized based on development control. The compliance of urban residents with development control regulations makes it possible for cities to be well structured for physical, aesthetic, and economic developments. The study aims to assess public compliance with development control in Auchi. A sample of 378 residents of Auchi was used in the study. The study area was divided into six strata, and samples were selected from the strata based on their population sizes. The instrument was a 5-point Likert-type option, which was administered to the respondents. The findings revealed that there was low compliance with development control standards in Auchi. There was awareness of developers on compliance but did not translate into compliance. The building coverage specified by development control regulations was grossly violated. There was a medium correlation (0.55) between education and level of non-compliance; the variability of development control non-compliance in the six quarters of Auchi was statistically significant, and the eta squared effect was also large. It was recommended that the town planning regulations be reassessed for a better practical effect; monitoring of developments to encourage compliance should be strengthened; and town planning manuals should be used to monitor and control developments.

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Dall'urbanistica al governo del territorio: i nuovi orientamenti della pianificazione e delle politiche urbane

ARGOMENTI ◽

10.3280/arg2009-025005 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 131-163

Author(s):

Lorenzo Ranzato

Keyword(s):

Regional Planning ◽

Urban Governance ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

Town Planning ◽

Comprehensive Planning ◽

Political Dimension ◽

Urban And Regional Planning ◽

The Third ◽

Governance Processes ◽

The Relationship

- This article aims to explain the implicit complexity of planning, a notion which has been recently defined in Italy by the expression "governo del territorio". It is divided into three parts. The first describes the evolution of planning in Europe throughout a century of history: from the modernist urbanism to the comprehensive planning, from the decision making evolution up to the recent forms of governance. The second sums up the latest fifty years of planning in Italy, which is undergoing today a complex and innovatory change. The third examines some keywords relating to cities and metropolitan areas. They refer to the recent notion of "governo del territorio", which calls for a redefinition of the relationship between the technical-instrumental dimension of urbanism (design oriented and based on new structural and operational plans) and the socio-political dimension of planning, responsible for the coordination of new urban policies and governance processes.Keywords: Urbanism, Town planning, Urban and regional planning, Urban governance Parole chiave: Urbanistica, Pianificazione territoriale, Governo del territorio.

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Centre or Periphery? Town Planning and Spatial Political Economy

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a261111 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 26 (7) ◽

pp. 1111-1122 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

J B McLoughlin

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Regional Planning ◽

Human Geography ◽

Great Emphasis ◽

Town Planning ◽

Teaching And Research ◽

Urban And Regional Planning ◽

Planning Education ◽

State Of Affairs

In this paper I argue that the debate about urban and regional planning is polarised into two competing ‘discourses’ of town planning and political economy. I assert that the language and concepts of town planning continue to take precedence in both the field of practice and in teaching and research and that this is a most unsatisfactory state of affairs. Town planners relegate urban and regional political economy to the periphery and place town planning at the centre. This is a conservative situation in that most town planning education places great emphasis on plans and very little on ‘how cities and regions work’. I recommend the abandonment of ‘planning’ education in favour of spatial political economy which might sit easiest in human geography.

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