Wikibit: Urban Planning

Urban, city, or town [tag]planning[/tag] is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities. Other professions deal in more detail with a smaller scale of development, namely architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Regional planning deals with a still larger [tag]environment[/tag], at a less detailed level.

Another key role of [tag]urban planning[/tag] is urban renewal, and re-generation of inner cities by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from long-term infrastructural decay.