REGIONAL PLANNING PROCESS- I

Academic Staff Name:

Dr. Kalthum Hassan
Dr. Ravindra Nath Vyas
Regional Planning
Regional planning deals with the efficient
placement of land-use activities,
infrastructure, and settlement growth
across a larger area of land than an
individual city or town.
Regional planning is a sub-field of urban
planning as it relates land use practices
on a broader scale.
Regional Planning provides a
comprehensive introduction to the
concepts and theory of regional planning
Regional Planning Process

Areal unit of planning

Sub-national state
Regional or Local
Development
Economic
Social
Planning
National/regional
Allocative/innovative
General Planning Process

Evaluation
- Monitor
Implementa - Review
tion performance
- Assign - Analyze
Formation organizationa impact
- Envision l
- Define responsibiliti
goals/objectiv es
Analysis es - Formulate
- Conduct - Develop Organization
community strategic strategic
assessment actions action plans
- Identify - Finalize - Allocate
Initiation local issues strategic plan resources
(SWOT) -
&
Organizati Development
work
on programs
Regional Planning Process
Regional Planning Process
Regional Planning:
Inter-Regional planning
Intra-Regional planning
Inter-Regional planning process
The identification of regions/region
The goals and objectives The areas of
interventions
Strategies
Policy instruments
The appraisal and assessment of planning goals,
strategies and tactics
Regional Planning Process
Intra-Regional planning process:
Study of the region
Analysis of problems and needs
Working in existing plans and programmes
Gathering information for future plans
Evaluation of likely effects on existing
structure
Working out likely rate of sectoral
expansion
Analysis of the action to be taken
Land use patterns evaluation
The Goal of Regional Planning

A Goal is an ideal and should be

expressed in abstract terms R.C.
Young
Examples:
Vision 2020: Aspiration of attaining developed
country status
The NPP goal: The establishment of an
efficient, equitable and sustainable national
spatial framework to guide overall development
of the country towards achieving developed
nation status by 2020
Ten Big Ideas of Tenth Malaysian Plan:
Internally driven, externally aware
10 Big Ideas of Tenth Malaysian Plan

1. Internally driven, externally aware

2. Ensuring equality of opportunities and
safeguarding the vulnerable
3. Supporting effective and smart partnerships
4. Government as a competitive corporation
5. Valuing our environmental endowments
6. Concentrated growth, inclusive development
7. Nurturing, attracting and retaining top talent
8. Unleashing productivity-led growth and innovation
9. Transforming to high-income through specialization
10. Leveraging on our diversity internationally
Objectives
An objective is capable of both attainment and
measurement stated explicitly
Examples:
Toattain 8 per cent GDP growth
Objectives of National Physical Plan:
To rationalise national spatial planning for economic
efficiency and global competitiveness.
To optimize utilization of land and natural resources
for sustainable development.
To promote balanced regional development for
national unity.
To secure spatial and environmental quality and
diversity for a high quality of life.
Single and multiple objectives
Regional Planning Stages
Stages as sequential processes:
The identification of the problem
The formulation of goals and objectives
related to problem
The identification of possible constraints

The projection of future situation

The generation and evaluation of
alternative courses of action
The production of a preferred plan
including strategy and definitive plan
Typology of Approaches to Policy and
Practice
The market will deliver the regional and local
development in the form and place that is
wanted

Pro-
Business
Economic Eco- Social
competitio
modernizat
efficiency is n to attract
ion cohesion
the inward and
investment
dominant environmen
aim of the tal
regional Area sustainabili
Pro-poor
and local regenerati ty are as
economic
economic on and important
developme
sector
developme nt as
targeting
nt economic
efficiency
After
The market will not deliver the regional and
Hague et
local economic development in the form and
al (2011)
place that is wanted
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