Metropolitan Planning

As more people move to the urban regions the importance of metropolitan planning grows. The increasing population and size of the metropolitan regions means that there is need for greater level of coordination and focus on metropolitan planning. But so often these regions are governed by numerous bodies that are reluctant to collaborate and often see each other as the competition.

But in order to get the best outcomes, for the people and the administrators there needs to be a greater emphasis n planning the metropolitan region. This often requires an independent body to be created and govern the metropolitan region. This not only requires the coordination of roads, public transport, and housing but will efficiently allocate resources and services.

Most importantly it will create the connections across the metropolitan region, in the old and new areas and between the two. But this planning must recognise the individual community identities and strengths within and use it to the regions advantage.