urban plan
Municipal development strategy
An urban plan is a comprehensive scheme for how a city or town should develop—addressing land use, transportation, housing, public spaces, and infrastructure.
Urban planning balances competing needs: residential areas, commercial zones, green space, traffic flow.
The city council approved an urban plan that emphasized mixed-use development and public transit.
A master plan or comprehensive plan covers similar ground.
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- land useHow terrain is allocated
- blueprintDetailed technical drawing
- gridFramework of intersecting lines
- city blockUrban land parcel
streets · district · density · building codes · skyline · neighborhood · development · ordinance · eminent domain · corridor · public transit · transit · walkability · pedestrian zone · sprawl · greenspace · green belt · block
- plansmasterplan, outline, blueprint, scheme, roadmap
- French Communescommune, municipal council, town council, adjoint, deputy mayor
urban planurban sprawl
Uncontrolled peripheral development
organic growth · informal settlement · shantytown · favela · slum
urban, plan, urbane, urbanite, urbanize, urbanization, urbanism, suburban, suburbanite