Future City 2025: City Planning Key Terms & Concepts

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An area or district within a city set aside for a specific use.

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City Zone

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An area of land set aside for factories and warehouses.

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Industrial zone

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An area of land set aside for for-profit businesses like office complexes, shopping malls, service stations, and restaurants.

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Commercial Zone

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Designation of the ratio of building space to open space (e.g., high-density residential includes high-rise apartment buildings).

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Zoning density: high, medium, low

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Infrastructure

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A public system of services needed by industry, commercial, and residential zones such as power, water, transportation, communications, and schools.

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A network of roads, streets, water, or rails that allows the vehicular movement of people and goods.

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Transportation systems

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A connection or association between multiple things?

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Inter-relationships

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The direct links or associations between multiple things. In city design, connectivity refers to the links between different parts of a city that provide accessibility and easy transport from one area to another.

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Connectivity

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Placing infrastructure so that all areas of the city are served and linked for maximum benefit of citizens, businesses, industry, safety, education, and recreation.

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Connectivity

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Taking into consideration that a system is made up of individual parts that function in unison or in a cooperative way and always have an impact on one another.

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Systems thinking