Urban planning policy in economic activity

 Urban planning policy in economic activity

Prof. Dr. Younis Hendi Oleiwi/ Head of Local and Regional Studies Department/ Center for Strategic Studies

The state, represented by local administrations, sets planning policies in cities, but it is not a party to the practice of urban economic activity, as much as it is the ruler who sets direct rules and conditions, and monitors implementation by individuals and projects, and its effects on urban land, and levels of use. The return to market rules is Recognition of the separation between the field of planning policy and the field of urban economy, power or politics is the function of the state to be exercised through laws or public policies, away from individual orders and decisions. And rules, and if the role of the state does not diminish with market economics, however, it changes when switching to the market from a state that basically issues orders to a state that sets rules and works to respect their implementation, and thus it is a state of rules and not a state of orders, and the difference between the two matters is the difference between decisions Individual, partial and private on the one hand, and between abstract general organizational rules on the other hand, and the state is mostly limited to setting the direct general conditions and conditions for the activity. , among individuals and institutions, without being an essential party in the relationship, and thus the role of the state is limited to ensuring the application of the rule it sets, and the separation between the parties in disputes and disputes. And one of the pillars of building contemporary urban planning thought, from which the executive procedures for dealing with urban land, and ways to benefit from it, are derived by defining the responsibilities and duties of the relevant authorities.