Urban Planning 2040

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Whenever attempting to plan for any certain aspect of a city for development, it is very important to consider many of the attributes of urban planning. In order for a city to be successfully constructed, certain elements to the planning must be enacted. The General Plan for any given city is important to consider while in the process of constructing it because of all of the many revisions, alterations, and changes that the plan undergoes in order to lead to the final product. The municipality that is Tempe, Arizona is only one city of many that uses a General Plan in order to help understand their planning designs so that further construction may continue successfully and with little difficulty throughout the process.
The city of Tempe is one that has continued to exhibit a vibrant and thriving community atmosphere that allows people to live with peace and in safety. It is a very populated area with many of the citizens being students, due to the very large and highly populated Tempe campus of Arizona State University. Because of this, the city of Tempe allows many people to use public transportation as a means to navigate throughout the area, allowing students whom live off campus to travel to and from school with ease. Its community atmosphere, many landmarks and districts, and transit systems allow people to travel throughout the city with ease and get nearly everything they need at many available locations. “The city of Tempe’s General Plan is organized and broken down into various elements of conservation, design, development, economics, history, land use, open space, public facilities, and transportation” (City of Tempe General Plan). All of the various elements of the city’s plan were organized and individually analyzed in...

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...y considerate of its citizens and will continue to undergo scrutiny and further revision, just as any other plan, which will hopefully allow it to be successfully enacted to finally solve some of the issues continuing to occur over time for the city. Weather from population, density, and housing, to other transit, congestion, traffic, and appropriate land use issues, the city of Tempe has a good General Plan that exhibits concern for its citizens, proactive assertiveness, great ambition, and a realistic sense of practicality to help maintain a strong and economically successful community, just as it always has, for years to come.

Works Cited

Kim, Joochul. “Comprehensive Planning.” Urban Planning PUP 301.Arizona State University, Tempe. Nov. 2013. Lecture.
United States of America. City of Tempe Arizona. City of Tempe General Plan 2040. By Neil G. Giuliano. Print.

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