Definition
Land use planning involves determining and regulating land uses on the basis of desired social, economic, environmental, and cultural outcomes. In most countries, local authorities adopt strategic land use plans alongside detailed plans that contain zoning regulation and ordinance and upper orders of government develop strategic plans and policy guidelines with spatial implications to coordinate the territorial development of an entire region or of the whole nation.
Introduction
The 38 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) are a collection of the world’s most advanced economies. As such, this subset of countries lends themselves to some degree of comparability, despite their different structures encompassing federal, quasi-federal, and unitary states. Across OECD countries, it is mostly subnational, and in particular, local...
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Krawchenko, T., Schumann, A. (2022). Land Use Planning Systems in OECD Countries. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_216
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