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Regional planning deals with the efficient placement of land-use activities, infrastructure, and settlement growth across a larger area of land than an individual city or town. Regional planning is related to urban planning as it relates land use practices on a broader scale. It also includes formulating laws that will guide the efficient planning and management of such said regions.[1] Regional planning can be comprehensive by covering various subjects, but it more often specifies a particular subject, which requires region-wide consideration.[2]
Regions require various land uses; protection of farmland, cities, industrial space, transportation hubs and infrastructure, military bases, and wilderness. Regional planning is the science of efficient placement of infrastructure and zoning for the sustainable growth of a region. Advocates for regional planning such as new urbanist Peter Calthorpe, promote the approach because it can address region-wide environmental, social, and economic issues which may necessarily require a regional focus.
A 'region' in planning terms can be administrative or at least partially functional, and is likely to include a network of settlements and character areas. In most European countries, regional and national plans are 'spatial' directing certain levels of development to specific cities and towns in order to support and manage the region depending on specific needs, for example supporting or resisting polycentrism.
^"Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Chapter 6 Regional Planning". American Planning Association. American Planning Association Press. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. pp. 561. ISBN 9780415252256.
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city, rural, and/or regionalplanning, and more often awarded as a master's degree specifically accredited by an urban planning association in addition...
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from around 3300 BC. The quality of municipal city planning suggests knowledge of urban planning and efficient municipal governments which placed a high...
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upon earlier theoretical developments that led to the concept of regionalplanning. He was a proponent of the Comte-LePlay view of the interconnectedness...
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