Regional planning

Regional planning deals with the excellent placement of land-use activities, infrastructure, in addition to 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 ownership practices on a broader scale. It also includes formulating laws that will guide the experienced 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 industrial space, 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 mention 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 increase a network of settlements and address areas. In most European countries, regional and national plans are ‘spatial’ directinglevels of polycentrism.

Nomenclature

Although the term "regional planning" is nearly universal in English-speaking countries the areas refers and particular administrative types ups turn widely. In North America, regional planning may encompass more than one state, such as the Regional schedule Association, or a larger conurbation or network of settlements. North American regional planning is likely to carry on a much larger area than the Regional Assemblies of the UK; both, however, are equally "regional" in nature.