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Definition: city planning from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

(1900) : the drawing up of an organized arrangement (as of streets, parks, and business and residential areas) of a city

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city planning

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
process of planning for the improvement of urban centers in order to provide healthy and safe living conditions, efficient transport and communication, adequate public facilities, and aesthetic surroundings. Planning that also includes outlying communities and highways is termed regional planning. Many ancient cities were built from definite plans. The fundamental feature of the plans of Babylon, Nineveh, and the cities of ancient Greece and of China was a geographical pattern of main streets running north and south and east and west, with a public square or forum in the center. Such a gridiron plan was used in the ancient Peruvian city of Chan Chan . It was also followed by the Romans, as in Lincoln and Chester in England; in all their towns the Romans emphasized drainage and water supply and practiced zoning. In medieval cities, built with military security in mind, the only relief from the extremely narrow streets was the space formed by municipal and church squares. The living…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
Americans since the seventeenth century have planned their cities primarily as containers for business. In one sense, all cities are planned environments, the cumulative results of contemporary decisions about physical uses of land and the residential distribution of people. Those decisions…
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Full text Article Modern Urban Planning

From Key Concepts in Urban Studies
The urban form of historic cities can be explained as the result of an evolutionary process where many local decisions aggregate together over time. Yet, the old civilizations, from ancient China to medieval Europe, did engage in forms of planning. Often building was carried out according to an…
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Full text Article City Planning

From The Classical Tradition
The cities of the Roman Empire established the urban base of a significant part of medieval and early modern Europe. But with only a few exceptions the sprawling fabric of the ancient city has remained hard to know. Excavations beginning in the 18th century have given us the plans of abandoned sites…
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Full text Article city planning

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
process of planning for the improvement of urban centers in order to provide healthy and safe living conditions, efficient transport and communication, adequate public facilities, and aesthetic surroundings. Planning that also includes outlying communities and highways is termed regional planning. …
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an ideal, self-contained community of predetermined area and population surrounded by a greenbelt. As formulated by Sir Ebenezer Howard , the garden city was intended to bring together the economic and cultural advantages of both city and country living, with land ownership vested in the community, …
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In a study of 275 distributed energy...
Abstract City planning is a future-oriented activity that shapes land use and the built environment by means of designs, regulations, and persuasion. The scope of city planning includes a range of interdependent decisions at the nexus of the private and public spheres: transportation and utility…
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According to 1990 statistics, rates of...
1. Scope of City Planning 2. Siting Energy Facilities 3. Financing Energy Infrastructure 4. Influence of Land Use Patterns on Energy 5. Influence of Urban/Architectural Design on Energy Policies and Practices 6. Centralized vs Distributed Energy Supplies 7. Integrated vs Segmented Energy Planning…
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London and Frankfurt are examples of cities where green belts have been developed. The Frankfurt GrünGürtel follows the ideas of the town planner Ernst May in the 1920s for residential developments with access to green space provided in the form of gardens established around the old city walls. The…
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From Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires
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