Outline of urban planning

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to urban planning:

Urban planning – technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility.

Urban planning is also known as also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning.

Major ideas

• Urban area
• City
• Metropolitan area
• Suburb
• Land use
• Planning
• Planning and zoning commission
• Growth management

Branches of planning

Physical and real estate

• Land-use planning
• Neighborhood planning
• Comprehensive planning (US)
• Spatial planning
• Urban design
• Redevelopment
• Regional planning
• Mixed-use development

Community and economic development

• Community economic development
• Community development planning

Environment

• Environmental planning
• Recreation resource planning
• Sustainable development
• Climate change adaptation
• Conservation development
• Low-impact development

Transportation

• Transportation planning
• Transit-oriented development
• Public transport planning

Preservation

• Historic preservation
• Preservation development

Research

• Urbanism

Urban informatics

Other approaches

• Indigenous planning
• Online land planning
• Participatory planning
• Participatory GIS
• Technical aspects of urban planning
• Community engagement
• Participatory development
• People-centered development

History and theory of planning

Theories of urban planning and history of urban planning

• Sanitary movement
• Garden city movement
• Back-to-the-land movement
• Linear city
• City Beautiful movement
• Soviet urban planning ideologies of the 1920s
• Towers in the park
• New towns movement
• Strategic urban planning
• Advocacy planning
• New Suburbanism
• Communicative planning
• Rational planning model

Planning by region

• Planning cultures

Planning of Africa

• Urban planning in Africa
• Urbanization in Africa
• Urban planning in ancient Egypt

Planning of Asia

• Urban planning in China
  • Urban planning in Shanghai
  • Ancient Chinese urban planning
• Urban planning in Singapore
• Urban planning in Iran

Planning of Europe

• Town and country planning in the United Kingdom
  • Spatial planning in England
  • Town and country planning in Wales
• Spatial planning in Serbia
• Urban planning in Spain
  • Urban planning of Barcelona
• Urban planning in the Czech Republic
• Urban planning in Nazi Germany
• Urban planning in communist countries
  • Soviet urban planning ideologies of the 1920s

Planning of North America

• Urban planning in the United States
  • Planning and development in Detroit

Planning of Oceania

• Urban planning in Australia
  • Urban planning in Sydney

Planning of South America

Planning education

• Urban planning education

Awards for planning

• Danish Urban Planning Award
• Kevin Lynch Award

Related fields

• Architecture
• Civil engineering
• Development economics
• Urban ecology
• Urban economics
• Geography
• Land development
• Landscape architecture
• Marine spatial planning
• Public health
• Public policy
• Real estate development
• Social sciences

See also

• Terminology
• Outline of transport planning
• Outline of architecture
• Outline of geography

External links

GeneralMajor
branches

Urban planning	Land-use planning Comprehensive planning (US) History of urban planning Spatial planning (Eur) Redevelopment Urban design Urban green space Urbanism
Rural	Conservation development Preservation development Rural housing Village design statement (UK)
Regional planning	Regional Planning Association of America
Environmental planning	Environmental design Environmental impact assessment Recreation resource planning Sustainable development
Transportation planning	Transportation forecasting Trip distribution Rational planning model Transit-oriented development Professional transportation planner Urban freight distribution
Economic development	Community economic development

Concepts/
theories

Movements	Athens Charter Car-free movement City Beautiful movement Dark-sky movement Garden city movement Indigenous planning New Urbanism Settlement movement Smart growth Structuralism Transition towns
Theories	Collaborative planning Context theory Ekistics Intelligent urbanism Livable streets Market urbanism Radical planning Urban renewal
Cities by type	Company town / Monotown Commuter town Ghost town Global city Model village Planned community (New town) Intentional community Arcology
Concepts	Affordable housing Cityscape Cluster development Complete Communities Conservation community Creative city Eminent domain (US) Filtering (housing) Gentrification / Brusselization Infill Healthy cities / Healthy community design LEED-ND Leapfrog development Mixed-use development Model cities Permeability Placemaking Planning gain Planning Permission (U.K.) Rural flight Rural–urban fringe Temporary use Third place Tract housing Transferable development rights Urban decay Urban growth boundary Urban sprawl / Peri-urbanisation Urban vitality Urbanization Verticalization / High-rise urbanism Zoning

People

Theorists/ practitioners	Andrés Duany Clarence Perry Clarence Stein Colin Buchanan Daniel Burnham Donald Appleyard Ebenezer Howard Edmund Bacon Guy Benveniste Ian McHarg James Rouse Konstantinos Doxiadis Kevin A. Lynch Le Corbusier Loretta Lees Peter Calthorpe Patrick Geddes Raymond Unwin Thomas Adams List of urban theorists List of urban planners
Critics	Elizabeth Farrelly Jane Jacobs James Howard Kunstler Lewis Mumford Randal O'Toole

TrainingPlaces

Countries	Australia China Czech Republic Russia Serbia Singapore United Kingdom
Cities	Barcelona Shanghai Sydney
Other	Africa Communist countries Nazi Germany Ancient Egypt

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disciplines