The planning landscape is being transformed, presenting policymakers and planners with new challenges at the global and local levels. The liberalization of trade and regulatory regimes in many countries and the falling costs of transportation and comm...
The planning landscape is being transformed, presenting policymakers and planners with new challenges at the global and local levels. The liberalization of trade and regulatory regimes in many countries and the falling costs of transportation and communications are making urban and regional systems more interconnected more global.
Traditionally, urban and regional planning was toward physical planning approach in line with physical determinism. However, classical planning, the process of city design, and the expertise associated with it, has little purchase on contemporary environmental and functional urban problems. Recognizing this limitation, nowadays comprehensive and integrated approach was followed by physical planning approach, and with the value system, environmental and urban regeneration paradigm has been emerged. The principal goal of urban and regional planning is changed to create sustainable improvement in the quality of life for all people.
Therefore, this paper focuses on the paradigm shift and the new trends of planning thought in urban and regional planning, and considering encountered planning issues. Furthermore, It is necessary to establish the principal channels for adapting newly emerging value system and paradigm shift to urban environment toward a desirable urban and regional development.