| Abstract from DBPedia | 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. Regional planning can be comprehensive by covering various subjects, but it more often specifies a particular subject, which requires region-wide consideration. Regions require various land uses; protection of farmland, cities, , 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.国土計画（こくどけいかく、ドイツ語: Raumordnung）とは、国土の利用、整備、保全に関する計画。日本の国土形成計画法に基づく国土形成計画や国土利用計画法に基づくなどがこれに当たる。なお、改正前の旧国土総合開発法に基づく全国総合開発計画も含む。地域計画と区別して国土計画という場合、全国を対象とした計画を意味することが多い。 (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Regional_planning) |
