What Is Planning or Urban and Regional Planning?

Planning or Urban and Regional Planning is a study to learn about how to plan a region and city. In planning a city turns out a lot of which must be taken into consideration by planners such as the economic, social, culture of a region and others.

Results of Urban and Regional Planning course there are many different levels, namely:

1. National Spatial Plan.

2. Provincial Spatial Plan.

3. Spatial Planning and Regional Municipality. (Spatial planning)

4. Detailed Spatial Plan (RDTR).

To be more details, please read on Spatial Law's most recent City:

Law No.26 of 2007

Next, if we want to be a scholar or expert in the field of Built Environment will need to have competence.

General competence to be possessed by graduates in the field of Built Environment is:

1. Understanding the meaning of Urban and Regional Planning

2. Understanding that the future can be oriented utopian and visionary, but also understand that the plan is a product that must be implemented

3. Capable of producing product-oriented prescriptive, ie the ability to make interventions to improve welfare in the future

4. Holds the values of humanity (humanity), defend the public interest (public interest), and to be fair (justice) and equivalent (equity) in the practice of science for the common good.

According Conyer, 1984, the definition of planning is the continuous process of decision-making or choice about how to utilize existing resources as much as possible in order to achieve certain goals in the future.

From these definitions it is in the planning of course there are elements which are:

1. Drafting means choosing

2. Planning as a tool for allocating resources

3. Planning as a means to an end

4. Planning is future oriented.

In this case, city planners are not the people who design a city, but the truth is only to provide a plan based on the principle of "supply and demand" which will be used to make the city more advanced in all fields.

Hopefully with more and more people are interested to cultivate this field, it is not likely to improve the quality of Urban Planning in Indonesia today. Hopefully.