Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book introduces and describes some evolving concepts for the preparation of urban plans. It provides professional planners with specific guidelines, procedures, and techniques for preparing urban plans. The book focuses on planning practice and describes the procedures currently used for preparing urban plans, as well as some of the emerging techniques. It discusses long-range general plans should be general in character, and may be based on relatively generalized data. The book describes Short-range plans should be quite specific, and should be based on relatively specific data. It examines that preparation of a plan is not an end point; implementing the plan, and monitoring the impacts of implementation programs, are essential parts of the cycle. The book provides specialist planners who wish to relate their area of specialization to a comprehensive plan.