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Spatial planning in Libya, from an analogue product to a digital process
Jan Turkstra
Urban Planning Agency,
Libya
Email: Jan.turkstra@unhabitat.org
Since the September revolution in1969 Libya has developed twice a complete set of spatial plans at national, regional and local level known in Libya as the 1st and 2nd generation planning. The 2nd generation spatial plans were developed in the mid 1980's and intended to guide the spatial development of the country at the various planning levels until the year 2000. Over the past years a start has been made with the 3rd generation planning which resulted in a National
Physical Perspective Plan, a type of a general spatial strategy for the country. In 2004 preparation started to develop 4 regional plans, 18 sub-regional plans and several hundreds of local plans and in addition a revision of the large scale parcel based maps. The objectives are to incorporate the latest GIS. Remote sensing and digital aerial photography technology in this massive planning project and no longer consider planning as a product but as a continues process.
The development of these large GIS databases for the whole country at scales ranging from 1:250,000 until 1:1,000 made it necessary to revise the topographic base maps and as such the 3rd generation planning is creating the major components of a Libyan spatial data infrastructure and will facilitate the integration of all major spatial data products.
This paper describes and illustrates the structure and development of the GIS databases for the regional planning of Tripoli and how these databases will be expanded to support the sub-regional and local planning in a later stage.
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