Question

Which of these is not usually an outcome of poor regional planning?

• A. Urban sprawl
• B. Economic backwardness in some areas
• C. Insufficiencies in basic infrastructure in urban centres
• D. Lack of proper use of human and natural resources

Hint:

Scale Check Rule: - Sprawl, territorial economic divides, and resource misallocation are large, macro-scale problems caused by poor macro regional planning. - Intramural civic infrastructure failures inside a specific city center are micro-scale problems directly managed by local town urban municipalities.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Concept: To solve this urban planning question correctly, we must carefully analyze the scale of planning interventions and separate macro-level structural issues from localized micro-level outcomes:
• Regional Planning: Focuses on wide geographic territories encompassing multiple cities, rural zones, and broad economic networks. It handles resource allocations across regions, macro-demographics, and balancing development across states or provinces.
• Urban Planning Local Planning: Focuses on localized, high-density city cores, town municipalities, inner-city zoning, utilities, and civic infrastructure delivery inside a specific urban area.

Step 1: Assessing the outcomes of poor regional planning.
If regional planning is flawed, the macro-scale growth balance breaks down:
• Urban Sprawl: Occurs when a lack of regional growth limits or boundary control allows cities to bleed unregulated across rural peripheries, consuming massive tracts of countryside.
• Regional Economic Backwardness: When regional planners fail to distribute economic corridors or industries evenly across a territory, capital clusters in one favored zone while leaving surrounding provinces economically stagnant and backward.
• Improper Resource Management: A direct failure to plan across regions leads to the underutilization or degradation of human labor markets and natural ecosystems spanning that territory.

Step 2: Identifying the exception context.
Insufficiencies in basic infrastructure inside localized urban centers (such as burst inner-city water mains, localized traffic intersections, or municipal localized sewage bottlenecks) are generally the immediate consequence of deficient local urban planning, city management, and municipal funding execution, rather than a direct failure of macro-scale regional territorial frameworks. Therefore, option (C) is the correct exception.