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Urban planning is the practice of shaping how cities, towns, and regions grow, move, build, conserve, and serve people. It links land use, housing, transport, public space, utilities, environment, health, safety, economy, culture, and politics into decisions about the built environment.
Urbanization is the process by which more people live in towns and cities, reshaping economies, land use, infrastructure, housing, transportation, culture, public services, and the environmental footprint of human settlement.
Public transportation is shared mobility available to the public through systems such as buses, trains, metros, trams, ferries, and demand-responsive services. It connects people to jobs, education, health care, shopping, culture, and one another, while shaping city growth, emissions, equity, and daily time.
Housing affordability asks whether people can obtain safe, suitable homes without losing the income they need for food, transport, health care, education, and savings.
Food security means that people can reliably obtain enough safe, nutritious, and culturally acceptable food for an active and healthy life. It depends on production, incomes, prices, markets, health, water, care, conflict, climate, infrastructure, policy, and the stability of all these conditions over time.