Framework Of Regional Planning Research Articles

Regional Planning Framework for Addressing Flood Vulnerability of a Metropolitan Region: The Case of Malappuram, Kerala, India

Flood susceptibility is becoming increasingly important among the various natural disasters in terms of environmental, economic, and social consequences. The eco-regional planning approach, which incorporates the ecological boundary as a layer in the spatial planning process of settlements, is one of the most innovative concepts in recent research to address these problems. Hence, this research interrogated flood susceptibility mapping tools using an appropriate model for better settlement planning and management. A frequency ratio model was applied to a case region, Malappuram (in  the State of Kerala, India), one of the world’s fastest urbanizing metropolitan regions, using a three-tier assessment framework. A frequency ratio database for flood susceptibility mapping was created by combining historic flood locations with independent factors. The study region was divided into five flood-risk zones based on the computed flood susceptibility index, which varied from 0 to 18.38, i.e., very high, high, moderate, low, and very low. The results showed that the high and very high susceptibility classes accounted for 8.82% and 17.17% of the land, respectively. This paper highlights the requirement for a multi-level assessment of an ecologically oriented regional planning regime in India and estimates the success rate of flood prediction at 79.33%. The proposed regional planning framework is therefore essential for local government planners, researchers, and administrators when creating flood mitigation measures, and has the potential to become a substantial and essential instrument.

Regional Growth Concept to Promote Densification and Mixed Land-Use in the Suburbs of the Portland Metropolitan Area

This study attempts to address two questions. First, what factors influence the categorization of neighborhoods into regional and town centers under a regional planning framework (the 2040 Growth Concept) for the Portland Metropolitan region? Second, have the regional and town centers fulfilled their goals of fostering densification and diverse land use, as indicated in their strategic plans, or have they fallen short of these goals? The multinomial logit model was used to answer the first research question, and propensity score matching and a paired t-test were used to answer the second research question in this study. This paper found that (1) the factors influencing the categorization of neighborhoods into regional and town centers within the regional growth concept were primarily transportation-related, and (2) both centers that considered transportation-related features have evolved into neither densified nor mixed-use neighborhoods after approximately 20 years of the plan's implementation, according to the findings. Whether or not government intervention through urban design and planning aids in the production of spatial patterns sought by the planning authority is discussed in this study, as well as why the normative concept may or may not be beneficial.

Territorial Resilience of Metropolitan Regions: A Conceptual Framework, Recognition Methodologies and Planning Response-A Case Study of Wuhan Metropolitan Region.

As the key link and spatial form of urbanization in China, metropolitan region development has become a strategic frontier issue in the field of regional planning and territorial resilience. This paper defines the essence of territorial resilience of metropolitan regions, analyses the capacity of the system and its elements, and builds a regional planning framework. An evaluation indicator system is constructed to evaluate the territorial resilience level and identify the limiting factors in the Wuhan metropolitan region by utilizing the grey correlation model and the obstacle degree model. The results show that the resilience of Wuhan metropolitan region forms an overall pattern of one core area and four sub-regions in the east, west, north and south. According to the different limiting factors of resilience, cities can be divided into three types: cities limited by both policy and spatial resource factors, cities with lagging socioeconomic factors, and cities with insufficient innovation factors. This paper proposes planning response strategies to enhance resilience from two spatial levels. At the regional level this can be done by building a gradually balanced urban system, establishing three areas based on the degree of resilience factor agglomeration, while at the urban level it can be accomplished by maintaining ecological security, promoting economic agglomeration development and constructing innovation networks.

A Strategy for the Seventies: Circular A-95 and US Regional Planning

In 1982, President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12372, revoking a relatively obscure publication issued by the Office of Management and Budget in 1969, Circular No. A-95. One of many policy changes that were part of a broad effort to rebalance how power was shared between the federal government, the states, and municipalities, Reagan’s pen stroke ended what for many planners had been a critical piece of urban policy during the 1970s. Part of President Lyndon Johnson’s 1960s Great Society programs, an era when federal assistance to state and local governments in support of domestic policy increased significantly, A-95 had established a coordination and review process that local governments receiving federal funding for planning development projects would be required to follow. The program was designed to force local governments to engage in more comprehensive regional coordination. For the next 12 years, almost every planner across the country, at some point or another, worked within the A-95 process. But researchers who examined A-95 during its short life struggled to produce solid evidence of its effectiveness. Absent a clear metric of the program’s success or failure, the history and legacy of the A-95 program has since been largely neglected. This paper explores the history of Circular A-95, a booklet issued by the US Office of Management and Budget to guide the implementation of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968. We argue that the rules contained in the A-95 circular should be understood as an effort to create a framework for regional planning. Using primary documents and secondary literature, we conclude that the program deserves to be re-read as an important attempt to use federal power to establish a pragmatic national planning policy in the United States in the latter half of the 20th century.

RETRACTED: Application of agricultural IoT technology based on 5 G network and FPGA

Personal knowledge of the agricultural cycle the current agribusiness than any other age is more concerned about the information, accuracy and prospects. Based on Internet of Things (IoT), rapid development innovative things has reviewed virtually every industry, including smart agribusiness; the company has transformed its business from quantitative methods. This gradual change has shaken the current comprehensive agricultural technology and open new doors in the problematic border. This article describes the remote sensor and the IoT horticulture functions. The meet up with this innovative farming regular rehearsal, face the challenge to expect. Let's take a closer look at IoT gadgets, gadgets and how to deal with applications related to agriculture experienced remote sensors. Record the sensor in precise agricultural applications can access, such as soil preparations, crop conditions, water systems, insects and irritation testing from planting to harvesting stage throughout the harvesting, crushing and transport, innovative ways to help growers become more and more apparent. This method also considers crop scouting and other significant applications, such as using an automated aircraft to increase crop yields. In justified cases, it will introduce different things and the best model based on the agriculture stage. Finally, according to the in-depth study, goal will recognize agribusiness in the flow of things and a future model and respond to potential research challenges. This article also describes another gain awareness and ideal for the application, such as increasing the use of 5 G network support production. Finally, after careful research to understand the fate of the power of agribusiness and remote sensor model, and potential research model to respond to the challenge. Frame configuration and have a valid attempt Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) by site kit. Goal need to consider the speed and the rationalization of the regional planning framework.

Water resources and main groundwater bodies in the Province of Siena in the framework of the land management plan

The management of water resources, especially drinking water, is no longer the responsibility of single municipal councils or groups of councils because European Union, national and regional legislation created and appointed authorities and bodies for this purpose. Faced with a strategic problem such as the management of water resources, local government in Tuscany has the task of defining planning strategies in line with Regional law no. 65/2014. This study is part of research aimed at defining water management at province level in the framework of regional planning. The study area includes the whole Province of Siena, where we evaluated surface- and ground- water resources, during preparation of the land management plan (territorial coordination plan) of the province, with special attention to aquifers that the Regional government considers significant (Relevant Groundwater Bodies and therefore strategic for the Province. We compared the groundwater resources with the overall demand for water in the Province in order to assess the sustainability of activities determining that demand; we also evaluated the danger level and risk of contamination, defining the corresponding vulnerabilities for the whole Province. The vulnerabilities were matched with a series of rules aimed at regulating land use so as to minimise the risk of polluting groundwater.

Managing human footprint to achieve large-landscape conservation outcomes: Establishing density limits on motorized route-user networks in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes

The relationships between human footprint and measurable impacts to biodiversity and ecosystems are complex. Also problematic is the hesitancy to derive threshold-based management tools from the scientific literature. Road ecology points to road densities as a useful surrogate for human footprint, and the research is replete with links between cumulative effects and various density thresholds. Yet there are few practical examples demonstrating how to go about managing the cumulative effects to biodiversity and how to reduce human footprint for large-landscape conservation.In Alberta’s Eastern Slopes, a sub-regional planning process resulted in regulatory density limits being deployed on public lands in the Livingstone-Porcupine Hills. The density limits are applied to two classes of motorized route-use – open public use and restricted use by statutory consent holders – and are informed by biodiversity modeling analysis. Several elements supported the establishment of these density limits including a robust regional planning framework, legislative and regulatory tools, and thorough community engagement and participation in the planning process. Implementation success depends on resources for operational management, education, enforcement, monitoring, and restoration. We examine the Livingstone-Porcupine Hills Land Footprint Management Plan as an example of a real-world approach to manage a common and growing problem. We demonstrate that there is sufficient scientific literature to support a conceptual framework for motorized route-user networks, and that real-world applications in threshold-based decision-making have practical merit. Density limits on motorized route-user networks constitute a viable cumulative effects management tool, especially for land managers seeking to maintain biodiversity and healthy ecosystems on large unprotected landscapes.

Spatio-temporal urban growth dynamics of Lagos Metropolitan Region of Nigeria based on Hybrid methods for LULC modeling and prediction

ABSTRACTAn accurate information on the amount and location of Land use and land cover (LULC) changes is necessary to develop and implement a sustainable-urban planning.This research investigates the potential of an integrated Multi-Layer Perceptron and Markov Chain Analysis (MLP-MCA) to map and accurately predict the future LULC change scenarios in Lagos Metropolitan Region of Nigeria. Multi-temporal LULC datasets derived from remotely sensed Landsat images from 1984, 2000 and 2015 were used for modeling, validation and prediction. Predicted LULC changes for 2030 and 2050 were performed based on the LULC map of 2015 using MLP-MCA method. The result reveals a significant expansion of built-up areas during the whole study period. Analysis of LULC distribution in Lagos metropolitan region shows that about 50% of urban land expansion happened beyond the administrative boundary of Lagos State during the period of 2000–2015. It is predicted that more than 75% of future urban growth will occur across the border of Lagos State, in the neighbouring Ogun State by 2050. These results imply that a strong and consistent collaboration between different states is crucial to establish an effective regional planning framework and ensure a proper planned growth of the metropolitan region.

Projects and the community—coexistence in practice

Strong domestic and global demand for energy will continue to drive further gas exploration and development across Australia over coming years. From Queensland’s onshore gas industry experience the key foundation stones that have helped to build community trust have included: clear and unambiguous industry policy for resources and agriculture; science based approach to managing and monitoring groundwater; fair and balanced approach to land access; greater transparency on industry data and activities; investment in long term community infrastructure such as roads and telecommunications; and genuine opportunities for local businesses to grow and succeed. Queensland has this year also introduced a new regional planning framework that seeks to control what is appropriate development in areas of agricultural and environmental significance. The new approach gives landholders and communities a greater say upfront on how onshore gas and resource developments can occur. As other East Coast States grapple to establish their own onshore gas industry, there is still much more to be done in Queensland as the major CSG-LNG export projects move from construction to operation and ongoing gas well development programs are rolled out into new areas and communities. In addition, exploration by the emerging shale gas industry is bringing similar community engagement challenges to other parts of the Queensland. Formally established as an independent statutory body less than 12 months ago, the GasFields Commission Queensland seeks to manage and oversee the relationship between landholders, regional communities and the onshore gas industry in Queensland. It has and will continue to play an important role in helping identify and address community expectations about how the onshore gas industry develops and evolves.

Stuck in transition: Russian regional planning policy between spatial polarization and equalization

The preparation of a nationwide framework for Russian regional planning policy has been impeded by an ongoing conflict between two competing logics of territorial organization: that of “polarized” or “equalized” development. This paper analyzes the preparation of the nationwide framework for regional planning within the context of political authoritarianism and continuing neoliberal reforms. The findings indicate (1) a stalemate in the preparation of regional policy, caused by fundamental contradictions between authoritarian centralization and the need to stimulate growth; (2) that in the absence of coherent regional policy, the government and other actors employ ad hoc “unguided” approaches to regional development projects; and (3) that the main result is an increasingly polarized pattern of development.

Offshore wind energy potential in China: Under technical, spatial and economic constraints

This paper investigates available offshore wind energy resources in China’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) with the aid of a Geographical Information System (GIS), which allows the influence of technical, spatial and economic constraints on offshore wind resources being reflected in a continuous space. Geospatial supply curves and spatial distribution of levelised production cost (LPC) are developed, which provide information on the available potential of offshore wind energy at or below a given cost, and its corresponding geographical locations. The GIS-based models also reflect the impacts of each spatial constraint as well as various scenarios of spatial constraints on marginal production costs of offshore wind energy. Furthermore, the impacts of differing Feed-in-tariff (FIT) standards on the economic potential are calculated. It confirms that economic potential of offshore wind energy could contribute to 56%, 46% and 42% of the coastal region’s total electricity demands in 2010, 2020 and 2030. The shallow waters along the coasts of Fujian, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu and northern Guangdong are identified as suitable areas for developing offshore wind energy in terms of wind resources and economic costs. However, the influence of tropical cyclone risks on these regions and detailed assessments at regional or local scale are worth of further discussions. Nevertheless, the models and results provide a foundation for a more comprehensive regional planning framework that would address additional infrastructure, planning and policy issues.

Regional Development Planning in Nigeria: The General and Particular

The failure of the country's planning machinery (which has been dominated by economists), to recognize the spatial diversities and complexities in the cultures, peoples and material resources of the country justifies the need for regional planning and a sound regional development policy and framework for the country. Going through history of the country, however, this paper finds out that regional planning has not been really embraced, notwithstanding the fact that such attempts as categorization of cities, creation of administrative units and unconscious establishment of regions like river basins, Niger-Delta, among others, have been made. The paper, however, recognizes the fact that regional plans have been witnessed in such places as Lagos and Abuja. Using Abuja as a case study the value of regional plan is appreciated; while at the same time, the paper frowns at its implementation with reference to the discrepancy between the planning areas of the plan and the established area councils, as well as delay of the plan's review. The paper, therefore, calls for a prompt review of Abuja plan, and proposes a national framework for regional planning in the country. The framework adopts the existing six geo-political zones as regions whose problems, activities, development, yardsticks, etc are to be determined and coordinated by their respective Regional Councils to be established according to the model.

Town versus country in the 1940s: Planning the contested space of a city region in the aftermath of the Second World War

Through the detailed examination of a case study, namely Plymouth, this paper explores the reasons for the demise of the regional planning framework, originally advocated by writers such as Ebenezer Howard, Patrick Geddes, Charles Fawcett and Patrick Abercrombie, in the early post-war years. Plymouth's reconstruction plan, prepared by Abercrombie and Paton Watson in 1943, was devised as a framework for planning an entire city region of 140 square miles (36,269 hectares). In order to unpack the complex history of the development and ultimate rejection of the city-region model for planning in Britain, engagement is required with the human narrative that drives decision making and determines the paths pursued at key moments of change. This historical case study, drawing on the exceptionally full surviving archives, highlights not only the role of Patrick Abercrombie in shaping Plymouth's post-war future, but also the clash of all the individuals at the local and national level engaged in a power struggle reg...

Regional Planning Policy and the Location of Employment in the Ile-De-France

Ongoing debate in North America concerns the effectiveness and efficiency of planning policy at the metropolitan level. Current quantitative research on the deployment of employment across metropolitan areas tends to assume that it is governed by market forces (as expressed through a variety of location factors). However,there are also calls for a form of metropolitan regionalism, for a consistent metropolitan policy framework to guide development and avoid sprawl. In the context of these methodological,interpretative,and policy debates,the authors examine whether the deployment of jobs across the Paris region,which has had a clear and consistent regional planning framework over the past 30 years,has been influenced by this policy. They conclude that over the 1978 to 1994 period,the suburbanization of jobs has been effectively channeled by the policy framework put in place in 1965. Hence, policy matters.

Enabling Exclusion

This article examines the impact of regional institutions and a regional planning framework on low- and moderate-income housing efforts in a metropolitan area. The Minnesota Land Use Planning Act (LUPA), enacted in 1976, sets forth the requirement for communities in the Twin Cities metropolitan area to plan for their share of the metro area's need for low- and moderate-income housing. After a period of effective regional planning for low-mod housing, changing political and institutional environments have led to significant decline in the willingness of the Metropolitan Council to implement the law.

A regional network strategy for reciprocal rural-urban linkages: an agenda for policy research with reference to Indonesia

This chapter aims to sketch the outlines of regional planning framework that incorporates rural—urban linkages and can adjust to a variety of local situations. It focuses on rural—urban relations and argues the case for viewing rural and urban development as being interdependent. Such a strategy misses numerous opportunities for developing a more dispersed pattern of regional development via a number of smaller-scale rural—urban linkages and regional networks. The chapter examines the question of rural—urban linkages into a larger regional network framework that advocates the organization of planning around regional networks of rural and urban linkages. It illustrates the regional network model through examples of types of situations in Indonesia. Most analyses of growth centres in rural development assume the perspective of the city looking outward to its hinterland. Rural—urban linkages are highly selective in terms of access to urban functions and timing and duration of stays in urban areas. The chapter concludes with an agenda for policy research.

Regional Structure and the Framework of Regional Planning

Regional Planning is also called Regional Development, but the conceptional difference between these two terms is not yet clear. This paper describes the concept of the region as the object of Regional Planning or Regional Development, followed by the entire framework of regional planning with the concept of planning itself.The concept of the region in Regional Science is based mainly on the concept as a method presenting region from a subjective view. However, the term region in Regional Planning is something existing on the limited surface of the earth which is a substantial concept itself. The author defines planning region, which is the object in regional planning, as follows: ‘Region is a substantial concept which means limited spatial sphere and its contents, that is, the whole of social, economic and physical phenomena produced by human activities in natural and cultural environments.’ Therefore, he proposes that ‘region’ should be defined as something ‘living’, which is formed by human beings.The concept of planning and development is also discussed in order to clarify the conceptional difference between Regional Planning and Regional Development. The concept of regional planning is grasped, in a broader sense, as an intentional impact of human beings for regional change. In a narrower sense, however, it is divided into regional planning and development. Specifically, regional planning means an ‘objective’ which motivates regional change, while regional development is grasped as a ‘means’ of the achievement of the purpose. Moreover, it is noticed that the term plan means not only ‘future programme’, but also ‘map’. Thus, regional plan expressed on the map has a special meanning.The fundamental framework of regional planning contents is presented as a result of the above discussion. This divides broadly into two categories, Activities Plan related to production activities such as industry and agriculture, living activities and public activities, and Resources Plan or Comprehensive Plan, namely environmental planning, spatial planning, population and social planning, economic planning and physical planning. The framework of each planning is relatively the same relationships between warp and woof. Resources Plan has a special significance for environmental conservation and it is expected to make a total balance among the usage of resources by activities. Thus, regional development should be executed only by being based on the developmental orientation, regional planning, which directs to environmentally sustainable development. Therefore, regional development approach or strategy as a combination of means based on planning is an important subject for us to study.

Planning new landscapes: A comparison of the Columbia basin project and the IJsselmeerpolders

The ecological and political contexts of the Columbia Basin in the United States and IJsselmeerpolders in The Netherlands are briefly described. Within these settings, two large-scale reclamation projects have been planned and developed. The planning processes employed in these projects are analyzed by comparing the general approaches with reclamation planning in the two nations, the ecological and political contexts, planning goals for the projects, project organizational structure, the extent to which a regional planning framework was used, the influence of environmental planning considerations, and the length of the planning process. Based on this analysis, concepts about landscape planning and landscape design in reclaimed areas are explored.

A Study on Regional Planning Support System Based on the Theory of Model Reference Adaptive System

Previous studies into the formation of analytical framework for regional planning have concentrated on the use of econometric models, system dynamic models or dynamic optimization models etc. In this paper however, we have adopted an approach which is different from the previous stated approaches. It aims at the pi-oposition of a new regional planning support system via a model reference adaptive system (MRAS). Basically, we built the dynamic interregional input-output model for the Japan's nine regional economies, and then clarified regional adaptive structural changes for achieving future goals of regional planning. The resuls of this article, it is hoped, would shed a new light on studies on regional planning, regional science and regional economics.

Land Use and Regional Planning Problems in the New Territories of Hong Kong

The New Territories of Hong Kong have drawn considerable attention recently as that part of the colony which was leased from China by Britain and which is due to return to China in 1997. For long a rather isolated rural area, since the end of the Second World War the New Territories have become spatially integrated into the urban and industrial fabric of Hong Kong. This paper analyses the changed role of the New Territories, especially in respect of the as yet unsolved land-use and regional planning problems that have arisen there. The demand for land in the New Territories for industry, housing and recreational uses is examined, especially within the context of the development of a series of new towns during the last three decades. Problems of uncontrolled industrial and residential expansion into rural areas are illustrated, as is the considerable environmental damage that has been inflicted by certain forms of agricultural development. The present seriousness of environmental Problems is emphasized. An inadequate official planning response is examined and suggestions for its improvement within a firmer framework of regional planning are made.