Abstract
Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning, Urban Planning, Local Planning, and such terms are quite difficult to define in a universal sense because they can differ from one legal context to another quite significantly. And yet, beyond academic debates over such semantic confusions, the real world is heavily influenced and reshaped and even destroyed due to planning and policy actions or inactions. The extent to which governments should intervene in the socio-economic trends that shape the geographical distribution of businesses and human settlements is a central theme in the discourse surrounding environmental planning and policy cycles. The trending hope, frenzy, and buzz revolving around the digital transformation of planning and policy development cannot go beyond the hype without addressing the fundamental ambiguities in terminology, scope, and philosophy of planning and environmental policies. In this presentation, I have shared key authoritative references to planning glossaries and unpacked the key areas of attention for digital transformation of spatial planning and policy development, and concluded with some diagrams outlining a framework for augmentation of planning and policy analysis processes with digital technologies.