Definition of a

region
Types of region
Basic
principles of
regional

REGIONAL PLANNING planning

Relation
among
settlements of
a region.
Pattern of
settlements in
a region
DEFINITION OF REGION

• An area, especially part of a country or the world having

definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
• An administrative district of a city or country.

 REGION is an objective reality linked with space and defined

in terms of space.

 I N PLANNING TERMS,
 A Region is a geographic or a real unit with certain
limits and bounds.
DEFINITION OF REGION

 For proper dev el opment, the area ( regi on ) for the dev el opmen t
has to b e defined, activi ti es dependent and compl imentary hav e
to be co ordinated .
 I n india, Damodar valle y de ve lopme nt was t he fir st
succe ssf ul re gional plan made and imple me nte d.

 A defi ned area wil l mean the characteris ti c of the regi on has to b e
identified for the purpose of planning like,
 FOREST REGI ON
 METRO PO LI TA N REGI ON
 RI VER VA LLEY REGI ON
 I NDUSTRI AL REGI ON
 A GRI CULTURA L REGI ON

• Based on the region the dev el opment pl ans wil l be prepared .

REGION

 The territorial unit having a definable boundary which

separates that area with the rest of it – REGION.
 Space as a elemental factor, a region is a geographic
or areal unit with certain limits and bounds.
A unit can be few villages or a number of
countries.
 The process which seeks to create spatial balances in
socio-economic development is called regional
planning.
SCOPE OF REGIONAL PLANNING:

REGIONAL PLANNING IS A MEANS TO STRENGTHEN THE

NATIONAL ECONOMY.
 IT IS BOTH INTEGRATIVE AND COMPREHENSIVE.

In the sense that it

In the sense that, it covers the
interrelates with other
social, economic, physical
types of planning such
and technical aspects of the
as National, Sectoral
planning objects.
and village planning
DIFFERENT TYPES OF REGIONAL PLANNING:

 HOMOGENEOUS REGION ( single character )

- region which have same physical character.
eg: Forest region, Hilly region, Ghat
 HETEROGENOUS REGION ( different character )
- region which have more variables
eg: Drought and Ghat
 CITY REGION:
to prevent haphazard and unplanned growth and to integrate
urban development with the rural hinterland.
 METROPOLITAN REGIONAL PLANNING:
to create counter- magnets around congested metropolitan
cities to avoid the population migrating to the bigger cities.
 RESOURCE REGIONS:
aims at optimum exploitation and utilisation of region’s natural
resources.
 REGIONAL PLANNING FOR BACKWARD REGIONS
allocation of certain basic resources to generate economic
activity in backward regions for stabilisation of their economy by planning
an adequate number of medium sized towns and to provide them the
services, employment and social and cultural facilities.
 AGRICULTURAL REGION

 TRIBAL REGION

 TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

 INDUSTRIAL REGION

 HEALTH PLANNING

 LINGUISTIC PLANNING (administration purpose )

REGIONAL PLANNING IS SPATIAL SPACE IRRESPECTIVE OF THE
DEMARKED BOUNDARY.
MACRO REGION: WHICH IS SELF SUFFIENT BY ITSELF WITH ALL
RESPECT NO DEPENDENCY
Eg: Karnataka, AP and Goa forms a region, without depending on other
regions and it forms the self-sustain region.

MESO REGION: FORMED IN THE MACRO REGION.

MACRO REGION

MESO REGION

COMMERCIAL CROP

MESO REGION
FOREST REGION
CHARACTERISTICS OF REGIONAL
PLANNING:

 Regional Planning involves goals and values in its

idealogies which is taken care in the utopian planning.
The tasks involved in regional plan are taken care by the
sectoral planning. target oriented.
 Methods of carrying out tasks are worked out in the
normative planning.
 Organisation and its role is taken care by indicative
and imperative planning. Rigidly controlled by a central
authority.
 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.
 The linkages between individuals and the organisation
is taken care by the systems planning. Sub
systems are identified and analysed and then co-
related with each other.
 THUS, REGIONAL PLANNING IS UNIQUE WHICH TAKES CARE OF
EVERYTHING, AND HAS OTHER ADDED CHARACTERISTICS, WHERE BY IT
SYNCHRONISES THE TIME (temporal) AND SPACE ( spatial) PLANNING
ALSO IN ITS ACTIVITY.

ANY PLAN HAS THREE COMPONENTS,

GOVT. ( POLICY MAKERS)

GOVT. MACHINERY TO
BENEFICIARIES( PUBLIC)
IMPLEMENT POLICIES

IT SHOULD AIM AT BRINGING OUT SOCIAL JUSTICE BY TRYIG TO BRING

ABOUT EQUALITY AND REDUCE SKEWNESS.
 REGIONAL PLANNING THEORIES,
 CHRISTALLER’S THEORY
 WEBERS’S THEORY
 VONTHUNON’S THEORY

Christaller made a number of assumptions such as:

All areas have
AN ISOTROPIC (ALL FLAT) SURFACE
AN EVENLY DISTRIBUTED POPULATION
EVENLY DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES
SIMILIAR PURCHASING POWER OF ALL CONSUMERS
The theory points out that to prevent spheres of influence overlapping or
having gaps, the best shape was a hexagon.
The breaking point is where the consumer is equidistant from two/more
similar services i.e. where the consumer is equally far from two or more
centers.
The formula to calculate it is djk=dij/(1+Square Root of(Pi/Pj)) where djk is
the distance from j to k, dij is the distance between two towns, Pi/Pj are
the populations of j and i and i is the bigger town.
The theory consisted of the basic concepts of centrality, threshold, and range
Centrality is the draw to a particular place

The threshold is the minimum market that is needed to bring a new firm or
service provider or city into existence and keep it running,

range is the average minimum distance that people will travel to buy these
services or goods

CPT was a breakthrough in predicting and understanding the hierarchical

development of settlements, where each level of the hierarchy provides
different and distinctive services. This hierarchical arrangement has been
applied in regional and urban economies, in describing the location of
trade and service activity, and for describing consumer market- oriented
manufacturing.
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