In urban planning, it is the entirety as opposed to the individual building's architecture that has paramount importance. For VLA, the intention of planning is to influence the effect the collective space has on human conditions, to understand how the collective space interacts with the individual’s life – and to understand how to express the life of the city.

The architect’s primary task in the planning is to ensure the vitality that makes the town able to form, reflect and create life and movement.