SPATIAL PLANNING

What were the main aims and ideas of planning in the early twentieth century? Are these still applicable today? To what extent have they influenced the current approach to spatial planning?

What were the main aims and ideas of planning in the early twentieth century? Are these still relevant today? To what extent have they influenced the current approach to spatial planning?

Introduction

The topic and implementation of the UK's designing and Compulsory buy proceed 2004 was not only an incremental step forward in terms of alterations to the UK's planning system. It represents a great step change - a 'paradigm shift' - in the UK's designing culture and the importance of designing as a consignment tool for more sustainable development and development. It proclaims the starting of a SUSTAINABLE REVOLUTION in the UK.

The 2004 proceed conceived an entire new designing scheme called SPATIAL PLANNING.

The Government has characterized spatial designing as 'going after traditional land use designing to bring together and integrate principles for the development and use of land with other principles and programs which leverage the environment of locations and how they function.'

For more than a hundred years UK urban planning concerns have focused on physical planning of land use, transportation systems, housing, open space and other aspects of the built environment which have spatial dimensions. During the last decade spatial planning to inform domestic policy regarding sustainable urban development, health, education, energy use, and a wide variety of other issues that go well beyond physical planning and design has become a required part of UK practice. (Bloom 1956 119)

Traditional Urban designing and the New Spatial Planning

Modern urban planning in the UK began in 1909 - the year the first formal urban planning course was offered at the University of Liverpool, the first academic degree programme in urban planning was established (also at Liverpool) and the first Town and Country Planning Act was enacted. The first generations of UK planning professors were trained as architects, and they focused on design of the physical environment. For the 90 years between 1909 and 1999 urban planning in the UK was primarily planning the uses and activities that would take place in cities and regions (Chrisman 2002 81).

It was 'spatial' planning in the limited sense that determining land uses in relation to each other in physical space required spatial analysis. Urban design at the site or neighborhood level required sensitivity to spatial organization and arrangement of aspects of the physical environment. But in making land use plans, the implications of space on a whole range of societal issues were often neglected. Where housing is located in relation to schools has a large impact on education, factory locations on economic development, highways on the natural environment, housing for the elderly on physical and mental health. The new spatial planning perspective now practiced in the UK, and elsewhere in Europe represents a fundamental shift in emphasis, although this is differently interpreted across the devolved UK (Bolstad 2005 ...