Tag: Municipal law

  • 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…

  • Modern Cities

    Modern CitiesA notable trend of the 19th and 20th centuries has been the constant growth of urban communities at the expense of rural districts. City populations represent an increasing proportion of the total national populations not only in highly industrialized nations but also in agrari…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • City-State

    City-StateCity-State, self-governing, self-contained urban center, usually surrounded by a small dependent rural area. The typical city-state of antiquity was the Greek city, such as Athens, which had complete political independence. Rome in its early days was a city-state. During the perio…

  • Civic Center

    Civic CenterCivic Center, focal land area within a community, containing one or more dominant public structures. The term civic center has also been used more recently to refer to the entire central business district of a community. In planning this type of civic center, special attention i…

  • 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…

  • 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 …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • City

    CityCity, large center of population organized as a community. The word city is derived from the Latin word civitas, which denotes a community that administers its own affairs. In ancient Greece such an independent community was called a city-state; it consisted of a chief town and its imme…

  • City Historical Development

    City Historical DevelopmentCities began to evolve in prehistoric times when groups of nomadic hunters and foragers developed a settled agricultural life. In order to protect themselves and their food supplies from raids by predatory nomads, they built their dwellings within a walled area or…