ENVSOCTY 1HB3 - Lesson 18: Urban
Planning & Local Planning Issues
Questions and Answers.
Urban Planning - Answer The political and technical process concerned with the
development, design, and use of land within the built environment; typically involves the
organization of different land uses, the planning of current and future transportation and social
services, and improving the built, economic, social, and natural environments of communities;
sometimes referred to as city planning, town planning, community planning, or regional
planning.
Solving problems related to past/current/future development.
Aspiring to make cities better for the future.
Early Urban Planners - Answer Came from the response to appalling sanitary, social, and
economic conditions of rapidly-growing industrial cities.
Initially: architects, civil engineers, and medical doctors.
Later: Public health specialists, economists, sociologists, lawyers, and those with expertise in
the linkages between society and environments.
Who Does Urban Planning - Answer The City
The Private Sector
The Public
What are Urban Planners Planning? - Answer Allocation of land uses.
Public services
Infrastructure
Transportation
Planning & Local Planning Issues
Questions and Answers.
Urban Planning - Answer The political and technical process concerned with the
development, design, and use of land within the built environment; typically involves the
organization of different land uses, the planning of current and future transportation and social
services, and improving the built, economic, social, and natural environments of communities;
sometimes referred to as city planning, town planning, community planning, or regional
planning.
Solving problems related to past/current/future development.
Aspiring to make cities better for the future.
Early Urban Planners - Answer Came from the response to appalling sanitary, social, and
economic conditions of rapidly-growing industrial cities.
Initially: architects, civil engineers, and medical doctors.
Later: Public health specialists, economists, sociologists, lawyers, and those with expertise in
the linkages between society and environments.
Who Does Urban Planning - Answer The City
The Private Sector
The Public
What are Urban Planners Planning? - Answer Allocation of land uses.
Public services
Infrastructure
Transportation
