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  2. Category:Urban studies and planning terminology - Wikipedia

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  3. District Plan - Wikipedia

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    A district plan is a statutory planning document of New Zealand's territorial authorities. Mainly covering land use / zoning questions, they have been required since the advent of the Resource Management Act 1991 . [ 1 ]

  4. Urban planning - Wikipedia

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    Hippodamus of Miletus (498–408 BC), the ancient Greek architect and urban planner, is considered to be "the father of European urban planning", and the namesake of the "Hippodamian plan" (grid plan) of city layout. [13] The ancient Romans also used orthogonal plans for their cities. City planning in the Roman world was developed for military ...

  5. Neighborhood planning - Wikipedia

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    Neighborhood planning is a form of urban planning through which professional urban planners and communities seek to shape new and existing neighborhoods. It can denote the process of creating a physical neighborhood plan, for example via participatory planning, or an ongoing process through which neighborhood affairs are decided.

  6. Comprehensive planning - Wikipedia

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    San Diego, a comprehensive plan for its improvement, 1908 A City Plan for Austin, Texas, 1928. Comprehensive planning is an ordered process that determines community goals and aspirations in terms of community development. The end product is called a comprehensive plan, [1] also known as a general plan, [2] or master plan. [3]

  7. Efforts to reform the United States Electoral College

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    One advocate for the amendments, James Madison, wrote in 1823 that the district plan "was mostly, if not exclusively, in view when the Constitution was framed and adopted." [ 8 ] Between 1813 and 1824 the Senate approved amendments for the district plan four different times, and the House approved a separate amendment in 1820.

  8. Panchayati raj in India - Wikipedia

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    Membership in the block panchayat is mostly ex-official; it is composed of: all of the Sarpanchas (gram panchayat chairmen) in the Panchayat Samiti area, the MPs and MLAs of the area, the Sub-District Officer (SDO) of the sub-division, co-opt members (representatives of the SCs, STs and women), associate members (a farmer from the area, a ...

  9. Multiple nuclei model - Wikipedia

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    It says that even though a city may have begun with a central business district, or CBD, other smaller CBDs develop on the outskirts of the city near the more valuable housing areas to allow shorter commutes from the outskirts of the city. This creates nodes or nuclei in other parts of the city besides the CBD thus the name multiple nuclei model.