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Review Paper | Architecture and Planning | Volume 15 Issue 7, July 2026 | Pages: 406 - 411 | India
A Review on Impact of Local Area Planning in Urban Settlements of a Developing Economy: Identification of Critical Barriers
Abstract: Local Area Planning (LAP) has increasingly become a vital planning instrument for addressing the complexities of urban development in developing economies. Unlike conventional master planning, which primarily adopts a city-wide, long-term perspective, it focuses on neighbourhood-level interventions by integrating land-use planning, infrastructure development, community participation, and environmental management. Rapid urbanization, population growth, and the expansion of informal settlements have exposed the limitations of traditional planning approaches in many developing countries. For efficiency in intervening the city areas ranging from wards to zones to boroughs as applicable administratively, this paper reviews the LAP approaches and its morphology in the developing economy with the intent of identifying the critical barriers, which will lead to or could become a basic framework for enabling policy formulation pertaining the concerned issue. The critical examination of the papers published in the timeline of last 50 years, gives a comprehensive narrative of the revision in approaches with policy revisions and also the gaps and critical barriers in implementing the LAP. The identified factors are related to Physical Infrastructure, Social Infrastructure and Governance based Institutional Barriers that are further sub categorised to 14 constructs in the conclusion segment.
Keywords: Local Area Plan, Critical Barriers, Urbanisation, Developing Economy
How to Cite?: Soham Mukhopadhyay, Abhinanda Chatterjee, "A Review on Impact of Local Area Planning in Urban Settlements of a Developing Economy: Identification of Critical Barriers", Volume 15 Issue 7, July 2026, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 406-411, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR26703161908, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR26703161908