urban planning

Also known as city planning, town planning, urban design

technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment

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Urban planning is the process of deciding how land in cities should be used and what the built environment should look like, involving both technical decisions and political choices. It matters because these decisions shape where people live and work, how they get around, and the overall quality of urban life.

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50,796 papers

Urban planning effectiveness and citizen satisfaction. A systematic literature review.F1000Research · 2024Llonto Caicedo Y, Morán Santamaría RO, Alarcón Villanueva G et al.DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.157550.2
Equitable Urban Planning: Harnessing the Power of Comprehensive Plans.ReviewCurrent environmental health reports · 2023Rojas-Rueda D, Morales-Zamora EDOI: 10.1007/s40572-023-00399-3
A Review of Urban Planning Approaches to Reduce Air Pollution Exposures.ReviewCurrent environmental health reports · 2024Lin DY, Waller ST, Lin MYDOI: 10.1007/s40572-024-00459-2
Urban health: an urban planning perspective.ReviewReviews on environmental health · 2000Dubé PDOI: 10.1515/reveh.2000.15.1-2.249
Urban and transport planning pathways to carbon neutral, liveable and healthy cities; A review of the current evidence.ReviewEnvironment international · 2020Nieuwenhuijsen MJDOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105661
[Planning approach of urban blue-green space based on local climate optimization: A review].ReviewYing yong sheng tai xue bao = The journal of applied ecology · 2020Cheng YT, Wu CGDOI: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202011.014
Planning instruments enhance the acceptance of urban densification.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Wicki M, Hofer K, Kaufmann DDOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201780119
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning.Ambio · 2022Shahani F, Pineda-Pinto M, Frantzeskaki NDOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01653-4

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Partizánske in Slovakia – an example of a typical planned European industrial town founded in 1938 together with a shoemaking factory in which practically all adult inhabitants of the city were employed

Urban planning (also called city planning or town planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing plans for 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. Traditionally, urban planning followed a top-down approach in master planning the physical layout of human settlements. The primary concern was the public welfare, which included considerations of efficiency, sanitation, protection and use of the environment, as well as taking account of effects of the master plans on the social and economic activities. Over time, urban planning has adopted a focus on the social and environmental "bottom lines" that focuses on using planning as a tool to improve the health and well-being of people and maintain sustainability standards. In the early 21st century, urban planning experts such as Jane Jacobs called on urban planners to take resident experiences and needs more into consideration.