Urban planning

Urban, city, or town planning, deals with the physical, social and economic development of metropolitan regions, municipalities and neigrborhoods. Other professions deal in more detail with a smaller scale of development, namely architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level. The Greek Hippodamus is often considered the father of city planning, for his design of Miletus, though examples of planned cities permeate antiquity. Muslims are thought to have originated the idea of formal zoning (see haram and hima and the more general notion of khalifa, or "stewardship" from which they arise), although modern usage in the West largely dates from the ideas of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne.

See also

• American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP)
• Concentric zone model
• Crime prevention through environmental design
• eGovernment
• Environmental design
• Geographic information system (GIS)
• Grid plan
• Landscape architecture
• List of urban planners
• List of urban theorists
• Linear city
• Master of Urban Planning (MUP)
• New town
• New urbanism
• Unitary urbanism
• Urban renewal
• Sector model
• SimCity
• Space syntax
• Spatial planning
• Town and Country Planning Association
• Town and Country Planning in the United Kingdom
• Urban planning in Singapore
• Prague Institute
• Hexagonal Town