THE ABC OF URBAN PLANNING.

Lolade writes...

The ABC of planning is the creation of a plan. Planners, whose profession is Urban Planning, develop a plan through proper examination of data and problem identification. Planners help the community and its different minds identify their goals and form a certain vision. In the creation of a plan, planners pinpoint the measures by which human environment can reach its goals and vision. Urban planners help create a wide providence for the human environment. Planners create, investigate, design, and develop initiatives; lead public processes; implement social change; perform technical analyses; manage; and educate.

Planners are also responsible for the implementation of many strategies, often coordinating the work of many groups of people and professionals. It is imperative to recognize that a plan can take a variety of forms including: town plans, policy recommendations, master plans, urban renewal plan, urban design, neighborhood plans, and historic preservation plans. More importantly, in the quest of achieving national development in any nation, Town planners have been mandated to solve resource management and regional even distribution issues, transportation, communication problems, housing and infrastructure, conservation and preservation of important factors (wildlife inclusive), place making, and law and advocacy issues.

Town Planners work in practically all area of human lives. Planners work in villages, outskirts, and cities. They function in the public sector and operate as private individuals/firms. Urban Planners are the landlords of the built environment, providing opportunities for surveyors to practice, delineating plots for architects to design and giving room for builders to develop these designs, alongside earmarking circulation and drainage paths for civil engineers. Lastly, as far as environment and human continue to exist, there would always be need for building of houses, construction of roads, construction of designed, urban renewal and designs and other physical development and concomitant need for town planners to oversee the affairs of environment.

(Lolade is a graduate of Urban and Regional Planning with vast knowledge about built-up and natural environmental)