ABSTRACT
During the twentieth century, community physical development plans have evolved from elite, City Beautiful designs to participatory, broad-based strategies for managing urban change. A review of land use planning’s intellectual and practice history shows the continuous incorporation of new ideas and techniques. The traditional mapped land use design has been enriched with innovations from policy plans, land classification plans, and development management plans. Thanks to this flexible adaptation, local governments can use contemporary land use planning to build consensus and support decisions on controversial issues about space, development, and infrastructure. If this evolution persists, local plans should continue to be mainstays of community development policy into the twenty-first century.
