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30+ Urban Planning Terms

 , updated on April 06, 2017
Urban planning is the practice of developing and implementing city strategy, policy and design. It tends to be political in nature with many stakeholders who have different goals. As such, cities typically adopt foundational goals and principles related to sustainability, resilience and quality of life to guide decision making. The following are urban planning techniques and considerations.
Activity Center
Air Rights
Brownfields
Clean Air Zone
Deep Water Cooling
District Heating
Emergent Cities
Freedom To Roam
Ghost Spaces
Happiness Index
High-Speed Rail
Human Scale
Induced Traffic
Land Use
Last Mile
Lighting
Living Street
Natural Surveillance
Nearly Car Free
Placemaking
Public Space
Quality Of Life
Resilient Cities
Security Landscaping
Slow Cities
Soft Engineering
Sponge City
Sui Generis
Sustainability
Tactical Urbanism
Transition Design
Urban Agriculture
Urban Density
Urban Forests
Vertical Cities
Vertical Gardens
Woonerf
Zoning
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An overview of existential risk.

Precautionary Principle

An overview of the precautionary principle.

Comparative Risk

A definition of comparative risk with examples.

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The definition of external stakeholder with examples.

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