Regional Science Planning

Geographic Information Science Implications for Urban and Regional Planning

This paper was prepared in response to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) 1999 Summer Assembly application challenge. The purpose of that challenge was to review the achievements and implications of geographic information science relevant to urban and regional planning. The review identified five areas of geographic information science contributions: geographic...

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Regional Plan

This section describes existing public services and utilities, presents analysis of potential impacts resulting from Regional Plan Update alternatives, and identifies any mitigation measures for those impacts determined to be significant. In particular, it addresses impacts on water supply, wastewater treatment and disposal, electricity, natural gas, solid waste, schools, fire protection, and l...

Urban and regional planning

Urban and regional planning is a notion that encompasses the whole set of social activities aimed at anticipating, representing and regulating the development of an urban or a regional area. It thus articulates intellectual activities of study and prospective, of social and economic forecasting with more concrete activities such as infrastructure programming, land reservation and land use regul...

Scenario Planning for Strategic Regional Transportation Planning

This paper proposes a framework for using business and organizational scenario-planning techniques for regional strategic transportation-planning purposes. The paper provides a brief history of scenario planning as it emerged from business-strategic planning activities and gives an overview of its goals and limitations. The paper then reviews the context for scenario planning in regional transp...

National and Regional Tourism Planning