Urban planning

Urban, city, and town planning is the integration of the disciplines of land use planning and transport planning, to explore a very wide range of aspects of the built and social environments of urbanized municipalities and communities. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level.

Based upon the origins of urban planning from the Roman pre-dark ages era, the current discipline revisits the synergy of the disciplines of urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture, varying upon from the intellectual strategic positioning from university to university.

Another key role of urban planning is urban renewal and re-generation of inner cities by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from long-term infrastructural decay. However, most settlements and of forethought and conscious design in their layout and functioning.

The development of technology, particularly the discovery of agriculture, before the beginning of recorded history facilitated larger populations than the very small communities of the Paleolithic, and may have compelled the development of stronger, more coercive governments at the same time. 

The pre-Classical and Classical ages saw a number of cities laid out according to fixed plans, though many tended to develop organically. Urban planning as an organized profession has existed for less than a century cities reflect various degrees.