A land-use model for sub-regional planning

Abstract

Cripps E. L. and Foot D. H. S. (1969) A land-use model for sub-regional planning, Reg. Studies 3, 243–268. Recent planning legislation in Britain and the pending introduction of a new structure of local government brings about a change in approach to urban planning, which will only become effective with the introduction of a new, largely computer-based, technology as a support for the planning process. The planner needs an adequate understanding of urban structure and an ability to describe it in a way suitable for computer analysis. Post-Maud, urban structure will prove to be, in many cases, a multi-nodal sub-region. This paper describes the application, in a local government environment, of a Lowry-type computer model, used to depict the structure of a sub-region and to provide a tool for assessing the impact of decisions to modify urban structure. The model assumes the location of basic employment given and endogenously estimates the location and size of the household and service sectors, and the interactions between each of these components of urban structure.