Regional Planning Report: Issues, Examples, and Critical Analysis

This report provides an overview of regional planning, focusing on key issues such as the creation of the Turin Metro Area and regional housing. It explores the EU's framework for regional development, highlighting interventions like the recovery of disused sites and measures against long-term employment. The report examines the impact of rapid urban industrialization on regional housing and the concept of affordable housing, using the Australian context as a case study. It critically analyzes these issues, concluding that regional planning is crucial for better regional housing and overall economic development. The report references relevant books, journals, and online resources to support its findings. The report also explores the importance of territorial cohesion and balanced regional development, emphasizing the need for equal development across all regions within a country to benefit the overall economy.

REGIONAL PLANNING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Week 6.............................................................................................................................................1
Key issues....................................................................................................................................1
Current example...........................................................................................................................1
Critical analysis............................................................................................................................2
Week 7.............................................................................................................................................2
Key issues....................................................................................................................................2
Current Example..........................................................................................................................3
Critical analysis............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Regional planning refers to as planning for efficient placement of the land use activities
and infrastructure and organizing and settling large areas of land for an individual or city and
town. The assignment starts with identifying key issues like regional and metropolitan planning
framework of EU in week 5 and different issues emerging from regional housing in week 7.
Further it will discuss current example discussed in the media (Jensen, Mandeville and
Karunaratne, 2017). At last a critical analysis of the problem and key ideas and discussions
developed in the discussions.
MAIN BODY
Week 6
Key issues
The main issues highlighted in this week creation of Turin Metro Area which focused on
shift from a company town to a metropolitan area. This measure was taken in order to recover
the old industrial zones and poor and neglect urban areas. For managing this the the government
of European Union has created many organizations which are accountable for starting new
economic development process in the absence of government like Turin International
Association, Torino Wireless and many others (Damborg, Danson and Halkier, 2017). For
developing the area it has started strategic planning in three phases. In first it has to adapt an
integrated strategic plan for year 2000- 2005. in the second stage from 2006- 2015 it has
developed knowledge for future. And in third stage that is 2015- 2025 which aims at
transforming Turin into a city of opportunity to handle issues like investment, global economic
restructuring, reduced public spendings and many other related issues.
Current example
The current examples of EU intervention recovery of disused sites, renewal of distressed
areas like Mirafiori Nord, some measures against long term employment and many others. This
strategy also led to economic development and access to employment opportunities. It is because
of the reason that this project created many job opportunities for the local people residing at the
nearby place of the project (Lichfield, Kettle and Whitbread, 2016). Also this leads to economic
development of the country because more job opportunities leads to addition in the economic
output of the country which is beneficial for the country. This also led to recovery of disused
sites which earlier were not in use. But this also worked on renewal of the distressed areas of the
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European Union as it focused on reviving and developing the underdeveloped areas of the
country.
Critical analysis
This project is a success because of the reason that it increased the power of the area and
helped the economy in growing and developing. The EU body promoted different ideas like
regional balanced development, territorial cohesion and many other related ideas. Territorial
cohesion is the objective of EU wherein the main focus is on strengthening and improving the
social and economic cohesion by way of reduction in the disparity between different regions in
EU (An introduction to EU Cohesion Policy, 2014). This difference can be reduced by way of
balanced regional development. The regional balanced development refers to providing for equal
development in all the regions within a country. The main focus is on developing all the regions
forming part of the country in accordance with the capacity of each region that is how much
development is required by a particular region so that it benefits the overall economy of the
country.
Week 7
Key issues
The major issue identified in the lecture was regional housing. Development of any
nation depends on the housing arrangement which are done within the country or the area. It is a
major issue because of the reason that if there is no regional development then there may arise
differences between the development of one country as compared to another country or region. If
there are not suitable housing then it contribute to disadvantage for the country as people will not
have place to live and continue their life.
Therefore, for having a better and successful regional housing it is very necessary that the
regional planning done for creating regional housing is appropriate and effective. Regional
planning refers to as a concept which deals with analysing the area of development where houses
can be made and which contributes in the development of the country as a whole. It leads to
development of country because if there will be more housing then more people will have place
to live and for work which will contributed to the government of country.
Another issue identified is that the emergence of regional planning is triggered by the
impact of rapid urban industrialization. Industrialization refers to as transformation of
agricultural land in to the manufacturing units (Galler, Albert and von Haaren, 2016). The
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manual worker are replaced with mechanized work. Urbanization refers to as a shift from rural
areas to the urban areas. Now if the population will shift to urban areas then the first thing
required is housing and accommodation facilities for the people coming to other area. If the
housing is suitable then it contributes to the development of the regional and local government.
Current Example
The current example is the regional housing affordability. Affordable housing refers to as
a system of housing units which are affordable that is within the range of that section of society
which has low or below the income level (Tammi, Mustajärvi and Rasinmäki, 2017). The
concept of affordable housing is majorly developed for the people living beyond the minimum
income level. It is because of the reason that this section of society does not add or provide to the
economy of the country. But by taking care for such people the country can try to develop their
level so that they contributes to the economic development of the economy as a whole.
It is a current issue because of the house will not be affordable then it would not be
preferred by anyone. Therefore, if the housing will be affordable by a person that he would
prefer living at that place. The affordability can be measured with help of four different
parameters that is relative, subjective, residual income based and budget standard based. Relative
affordability means relation between cost of house and income of the person and forms the price/
wage ratio. Subjective affordability refers to as the market efficiency of the house and the
decision taken by the person. The another measure residual income approach states that housing
cost is one of the largest and not the flexible cost which affect the residual income of the person.
It is less flexible because of the reason that this cost is fixed even if the income of the person is
low then also it has to pay this cost (The Conversation, 2019).
Critical analysis
Australia is having smaller states and is a less populous country which is dominated by a
single capital city. But the country has a single tired structure of urban governance which is split
between the state government and the mosaic of local authorities. And because of this it needs to
pay attention to regional planning. Earlier the planning was limited to only small things like
highway system, railroads, canals and similar things. But because of rapid urban industrialization
there emerged a need of regional planning for regional housing. For this federal government
initiated several programs which are aimed at development of special agencies and programs for
housing and many other related things.
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CONCLUSION
With the above discussion it is concluded that regional planning is very necessary for
better regional housing and development of the country. The present assignment identified some
of the issues in regional planning such as regional housing and another issue is that emergence of
regional planning is triggered by the impact of rapid urban industrialization. Further it discussed
some current examples relating to the issue like regional housing affordability and many other
types. At last it critically analysed the whole issues.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Damborg, C., Danson, M. and Halkier, H., 2017. Regional development agencies in Europe.
Routledge.
Galler, C., Albert, C. and von Haaren, C., 2016. From regional environmental planning to
implementation: paths and challenges of integrating ecosystem services. Ecosystem
Services. 18. pp.118-129.
Jensen, R.C., Mandeville, T.D. and Karunaratne, N.D., 2017. Regional economic planning:
Generation of regional input-output analysis. Routledge.
Lichfield, N., Kettle, P. and Whitbread, M., 2016. Evaluation in the Planning Process: The
Urban and Regional Planning Series (Vol. 10). Elsevier.
Tammi, I., Mustajärvi, K. and Rasinmäki, J., 2017. Integrating spatial valuation of ecosystem
services into regional planning and development. Ecosystem services. 26. pp.329-344.
Online
An introduction to EU Cohesion Policy. 2014. [Online]. Available through:
<https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/informat/basic/
basic_2014_en.pdf>
The Conversation. 2019. [Online]. Available through: <https://theconversation.com/a-housing-
affordability-crisis-in-regional-australia-yes-and-heres-why-71808>
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