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What is Urban Planning

Handbook of Research on Trends and Digital Advances in Engineering Geology
Urban planning deals with any activities related with the urban areas in the context of physical, social, political, environmental and economical context. Those contexts are controlled by the land use regulations and the related planning decisions made by the decision makers in the both local and governmental context.
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Integration Between Urban Planning and Natural Hazards For Resilient City
Şule Tüdeş (Gazi University, Turkey), Kadriye Burcu Yavuz Kumlu (Gazi University, Turkey), and Sener Ceryan (Balikesir University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2709-1.ch017
Abstract
Analyses and syntheses conducted before the urban planning process are significant. Accurate analysis and synthesis enable to determine proper site selection and the proper site selection is the basis of a sustainable urban plan. In this sense, fundamental analysis inputs of the proper site selection could be indicated as the related parameters of the earth sciences. The interpretation of these inputs require the essential analyses and syntheses of initially the geological and geotechnical research with geophysics, tectonic, topography, mineral and natural resources, hydrogeology, geomorphology and engineering geology. Synthesis maps composed of these inputs especially provide guides for natural thresholds consisting of landslide, flood, inundation, earthquake etc. for land use planning and site selection parts in the urban planning processes. In this regard, this chapter of the book contains the relation between the earth sciences parameters with the urban planning and the way these parameters lead the way of urban planning processes.
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Hydraulic Planning in Insular Urban Territories: The Case of Madeira Island – Porto da Cruz
Is a technical and political process concerned with the control of the use of land and design of the urban environment, including transportation networks, to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities. It concerns itself with research and analysis, strategic thinking, architecture, urban design, public consultation, policy recommendations, implementation, and management.
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Future 3D Urbanism: From UAV Data Modelling to Information Visualization
Is a process supported by politics, technology, techniques and methods, which originates or conditions the physical, environmental and social dynamics and the design of a city.
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Green Areas to Introduce Sustainability and Social Responsibility: Training on Agenda 2030
Group of technical and political instruments that make it possible to organize the space of cities (streets and buildings) for their optimal management.
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Bootstrapping Urban Planning: Addressing Big Data Issues in Smart Cities
Urban planning may be described as a specialized technical and political procedure which is concerned with the design and development of land usage and the built environment, which includes air, water, and the physical and virtual infrastructure passing into and out of urban zones, such as communication, transportation, and dissemination networks.
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Russian Arctic Cities' Sustainable Development Strategies
A part of urban development strategy. It is considered an interdisciplinary field that includes social, engineering and design sciences. Urban planning guides orderly development in urban and suburban areas. Although predominantly concerned with the planning of settlements and communities, urban planning is also responsible for the planning and development of water use and resources, parks, and conserving areas of natural environmental significance.
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Need for Rethinking Modern Urban Planning Strategies Through Integration of ICTs
It is a techno-political process that deals with the development of land, environment and public welfare along with design of relevant infrastructure, such as transportation and communications, which form the urban environment.
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Flood Risk and Vulnerability: An Approach to Urban Floods in Ribeira de Machico in the Autonomous Region of Madeira
Is a technical and political process concerned with the control of the use of land and design of the urban environment, including transportation networks, to guide and ensure the orderly development of settlements and communities.
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