The Vision: Spatial Planning

05-Jan-07

Spatial Planning is about:

  • Space and Place...
  • Location and Quality...
  • Social, Economic and Environmental Change...
  • Considered at all scales, from National to Local...

 

Spatial planning involves twin activities:

  • the management of the competing uses for space; and
  • the making of places that are valued and have identity.

Spatial planning is concerned with the location and quality of social, economic and environmental changes.

It is the combination of these activities and concerns that characterise and justify the term ‘spatial planning’. The use of this term also emphasises that planning is as much concerned with the spatial requirements for, and impacts of, policies - even where these do not require a 'land-use' plan - as it is with land use zonings. The interrelationships, for example, of governmental policy can only be properly demonstrated by consideration of their aggregate impacts for specific places.

Spatial planning operates at all the different possible scales of activity, from large scale national or regional strategies to the more localised design and organisation of towns, villages and neighbourhoods.

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Author:
Rynd Smith
Publisher:
The Royal Town Planning Institute
Date:
05-Jan-07
Categories:
Practice 

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