Urban planning deals with physical layout of human settlements.

He is considered the "father" of urban planning, and his name is given to the grid layout of city planning, known as the Hippodamian plan. “I consider John Friedmann as the father of our urban planning department — a huge figure whose vision has guided our department’s structure, overall mission and social justice goals,” said Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, associate dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and professor of urban planning. Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks. The late John Friedmann is widely regarded as having pioneered the field of urban planning theory. Planning Process. “Aside from being a brilliant scholar, John was an amazing human being. John Friedmann, the ‘Father of Urban Planning,’ Dies at 91 World-renowned urban theorist was a central figure in founding what later became the UCLA Luskin Department of Urban Planning June 13, 2017 / 1 Comment / in School of Public Affairs , Urban Planning Ananya Roy , Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris , Martin Wachs , Michael Storper , Susanna Hecht , Vinit Mukhija / by George Foulsham He is seen as the originator of the idea that a town plan might formally embody and clarify a rational social order.

The Urban Development Planning MSc explores planning theories and international practices in urban development policy, planning and management that address contemporary spatial, socio-economic and political transformations in cities of the Global South. Hippodamus of Miletus (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ d ə m ə s /; Greek: Ἱππόδαμος ὁ Μιλήσιος, Hippodamos ho Milesios; 498 – 408 BC) was an ancient Greek architect, urban planner, physician, mathematician, meteorologist and philosopher, who is considered to be "the father of European urban planning", the namesake of the "Hippodamian Plan" of city layout.

The basis for integrating energy aspects in planning processes is a thorough understanding of the existing urban planning process in a given city. His plans of Greek cities were characterized by order and regularity in contrast to the intricacy and confusion common to cities of that period. Large populations of workers and their families lived in extremely poor and crowded conditions in the industrial cities. By Zev Hurwitz.

Modern urban planning took shape in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, against the background of the socioeconomic movements of industrialization and urbanization. Urban planning, design and regulation of the uses of space that focus on the physical form, economic functions, and social impacts of the urban environment and on the location of different activities within it.