Strategic Regional Planning (SRP)

Strategic regional planning principles, which lead to true sustainability, are at the heart of DIAP’s thinking. Inspired by local geography, history, and culture, DIAP uses a contextual approach to design site-specific plans which are integrated with the surrounding environment. DIAP studies time-tested ideas in successful communities around the world, and brings them to bear to solve today’s challenges. DIAP also looks ahead far into the future to accommodate changing demographics, environmental characteristics, and economics.

When the challenge is to create a future for a place, one has to analyze and then synthesize the relevant information available. The effort is complex.  It involves the realms of environment, history, culture, and economics--as well as the cultural issues of small villages versus globalization. How does one find a solution for successful regional strategic planning in a clear, safe, natural and elegant way? How can one find the essential characteristics of the place and the local people in order to help create a healthy, vibrant, self-regenerating and successful future—providing security at the local household level, as well as being compatible with trends at the global scale?

One of the ways to achieve these goals is to create a focused vision and advance creative recommendations that inspire all interested parties to move forward in a concerted manner. Regional and strategic planning is a process rooted in world experience and history, local environment and people, and economic and cultural waves.