Editing Plymouth (section)

=== Urban form ===
[[File:Armada Way, Plymouth - geograph.org.uk - 83458.jpg|thumb|right|Armada Way looking north]]
On 27 April 1944 [[Patrick Abercrombie|Sir Patrick Abercrombie's]] ''Plan for Plymouth'' to rebuild the bomb-damaged city was published; it called for demolition of the few remaining pre-War buildings in the city centre to make way for their replacement with wide, parallel, modern [[boulevard]]s aligned east–west linked by a north–south [[Avenue (landscape)|avenue]] (Armada Way) linking the railway station with the vista of Plymouth Hoe.<ref name="jeremy" />

A peripheral road system connecting the historic Barbican on the east and Union Street to the west determines the principal form of the city centre, even following pedestrianisation of the shopping centre in the late 1980s, and continues to inform the present 'Vision for Plymouth' developed by a team led by Barcelona-based architect [[David Mackay (architect)|David MacKay]] in 2003 which calls for revivification of the city centre with mixed-use and residential.<ref name="vision" />

In suburban areas, post-War [[Prefabricated home|prefabs]] had already begun to appear by 1946, and over 1,000 permanent [[council house]]s were built each year from 1951 to 1957 according to the [[Urban planning#Modern urban planning|Modernist]] [[zoning|zoned]] low-density [[garden city movement|garden city]] model advocated by Abercrombie.<ref name="gillredev" /> By 1964 over 20,000 new homes had been built, more than 13,500 of them permanent council homes and 853 built by the [[British Admiralty|Admiralty]].<ref name="gillredev" />

Plymouth is home to 28 parks with an average size of {{convert|45638|m2}}.<ref name="parks">{{cite web|url=http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/parksandopenspaces|title=Parks and open spaces|publisher=Plymouth City Council|access-date=1 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609073630/http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/parksandopenspaces <!--Added by H3llBot-->|archive-date=9 June 2008}}</ref> Its largest park is [[Central Park, Plymouth|Central Park]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Park |url=http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/centralpark |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609130836/http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/centralpark |archive-date=9 June 2008 |access-date=17 February 2009 |publisher=Plymouth City Council}}</ref> with other sizeable green spaces including [[Victoria Park, Millbridge, Plymouth|Victoria Park]], [[Lipson|Freedom Fields Park]], Alexandra Park, [[Devonport Park]] and the Hoe.<ref name="parks" /> Central Park is the home of Plymouth Argyle Football Club and a number of other leisure facilities.

The Plymouth Plan 2019–2034 was published May 2019 and sets the direction for future development with a new spatial strategy<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/PPRefresh%20with%20covers.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=31 July 2020 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806081727/https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/PPRefresh%20with%20covers.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> which reinforces links with the wider region in west Devon and east Cornwall in its Joint Local Plan and identifies three development areas within the city: the City centre and waterfront; a 'northern corridor' including Derriford and the vacant airfield site at [[Roborough, South Hams|Roborough]]; and an 'eastern corridor' including major new settlements at [[Sherford (new town)|Sherford]] and [[Langage, Devon|Langage]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Plan|first=The Plymouth|date=29 March 2021|title=The new plan for South Hams, West Devon and…|url=https://plymswdevonplan.co.uk/policy|access-date=29 March 2021|website=The Plymouth Plan|language=en|archive-date=6 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806104644/https://plymswdevonplan.co.uk/policy|url-status=live}}</ref> Plymouth is categorized as a Small-Port City using the Southampton System for port-city classification.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1080/03088839.2020.1802785|title=The Southampton system: A new universal standard approach for port-city classification|year=2021|last1=Roberts|first1=Toby|last2=Williams|first2=Ian|last3=Preston|first3=John|journal=Maritime Policy & Management|volume=48|issue=4|pages=530–542|s2cid=225502755|doi-access=free}}</ref>