Abstract
Land Use Planning has not come as an outgrowth of urban planning but primarily from the search for constructive policies in agriculture and forestry. In the early 1930s, Lewis C Gray in the USDA`s Bureau of Agricultural Economic decided to retire huge amounts of submarginal land from use and carried a nationwide land use planning program in which agricultural economists surveyed, inventoried, and classified rural land to determine the most effective uses. Meanwhile urban planners expanded their field from city planning to regional and state planning, yet they didn't accept the term land use planning." This paper disclosed that Hugh R. Pomeroy, a county planner in California, introduced the idea of land use planning in the 1930s in order to rationalize county zoning under. Later city planners began to prepare a land use plan for zoning regulation and urban redevelopment projects in the 1940s.
