!!!Raumordnung

Regional Planning, systematic planning of an area within a district or 
larger unit (region, province, national level). The process of 
planning takes place on different administrative levels. The municipal 
authorities are responsible for land-use and development plans, on the 
supra-regional level general regional plans are drawn up and the 
national level develops guidelines and overall plans. Regional 
planning is aimed at the development of regional structures which are 
in harmony with the natural conditions on the one hand and meet 
economic, social and cultural requirements on the other hand. At the 
municipal level, land for construction is set off from areas reserved 
for other purposes (such as agriculture), and the location of social 
institutions, housing, business sites, leisure centres and facilities 
of the social and technological infrastructure are planned as elements 
of a coherent overall plan. Regional planning is supposed to provide 
for functioning and healthy living conditions and working both in 
conurbations and in less developed areas within a region; existing 
(infra)structures have to be developed and expanded, resources used in 
the most sensitive and effective way.

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The Austrian Regional Planning Conference,  OeROK, is one of the 
bodies involved in regional planning on a national scale. The latest 
Austrian regional planning document was published in 1991. Provinces 
and districts decide on legal and technical measures, the practical 
realisation of the plans is also within their field of responsibility.

!Literature
Berichte Raumforschung und Raumordnung, ed. by 
Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 
1975ff.; H. Bobek and M. Fesl, Das System der zentralen Orte in 
Oesterreich, 1978; W. Hauer (ed.), Raumordnung-Gesetze der 
oesterreichischen Bundeslaender, 1984; Atlas zur raeumlichen 
Einteilung Oesterreichs, ed. by Institut fuer Raumordnung, 1984ff.; 
Oe. Raumordnung-Konzept 1991, ed. by OeROK, 1992; Handbuch 
Umweltschutz, Sammlung der Rechtsvorschriften, ed. by Institut fuer 
Stadtforschung, 1989ff.


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