Search results for: “city planning”
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Modern City Planning
City Planning Modern City PlanningCity planning in the U.S. and other countries broadened in the late 1960s beyond a purely physical orientation. In its modern form, city planning is an ongoing process that concerns not only physical design but also social, economic, and political policy is…
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Comprehensive City Planning
City Planning Modern City Planning The Comprehensive PlanThe basic city-planning document is a comprehensive plan that is adopted and maintained with regular revisions. The plan receives its day-to-day expression in a series of legal documents-zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, and…
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City Planning In The Renaissance And Beyond
City Planning History of City Planning The Renaissance and Beyond The emulation of Greco-Roman classicism during the Renaissance revived city-planning efforts along classical lines. The Piazza of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome and the Piazza of Saint Mark's in Venice exemplify an id…
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City Planning Policies
City Planning Modern City Planning Social, Economic, and Environmental PolicyAlthough the physical appearance and functioning of the city are the traditional focus of city planning, the city's population and economic resources are an important concern. Thus, contemporary city planning c…
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City Planning
City PlanningCity Planning, the unified development of cities and their environs. For most of its history, city planning dealt primarily with the regulation of land use and the physical arrangement of city structures, as guided by architectural, engineering, and land-development criteria. I…
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City Planning After 1945
City Planning History of City Planning After World War IIThe extensive physical rebuilding of cities following World War II lent new urgency to city planning. In 1947 Britain enacted its significant Town and County Planning Act, which placed all development under regional control. The build…
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City Planning Development Controls
City Planning Modern City Planning Development ControlsLand is allocated and private activities are coordinated with public facilities by means of zoning ordinances and subdivision regulations. A zoning ordinance governs how the land may be used and the size, type, and number of structures …
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City Planning Future
City Planning The Future of Cities and City PlanningCity planning in the last decades of the 20th century is becoming increasingly involved in setting or executing policy about public services and with delivering these services. Since it is apparent that resources are limited and that globa…
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City Planning History
City Planning History of City Planning Archaeological excavations of ancient cities reveal evidence of some deliberate planning: the arrangement of housing in regular, rectangular patterns and the prominent location of civic and religious buildings along main thoroughfares. <a href="#N…
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City Planning In Greece And Rome
City Planning History of City Planning City Planning in Greece and RomeThe emphasis on planning broadened during the Greek and Roman eras. The Greek architect Hippodamus of Miletus planned important Greek settlements such as Priene and Piraeus (Pireás). Called the father of town plan…
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City Planning In The 20th-Century
City Planning History of City Planning 20th-Century City PlanningThe U.S. and Britain responded similarly to the need to improve the living conditions in cities. Their initial action was to regulate the sanitary conditions and density of tenement housing. A movement then arose in both count…
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Industrial Planning
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