Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 670 g
Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 670 g
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0290-2
Verlag: Wiley
Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.
- This timely text introduces the principles and practice behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.
- Reflects a growing recognition that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way.
- Weaves together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation.
- Helps students and planners to marry the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Boxes.
List of Figures.
Acknowledgements.
Glossary.
Introduction.
Part I: Principles:.
1. Sustainable and Ethical:.
Development, planning, sustainability.
Property, interests, neomodernity.
Conservancy and development ethics.
With sustainable and ethical intent.
2. Knowledge power outcomes:.
How planning works.
Traditional planning.
The radical approach.
Progressive change.
Part II: Practice:.
3. Charter for Conservation with Development:.
Backgrounding.
Foregrounding.
Resource exploitation and discard dynamics.
Socio-environmentalism: The new reality.
Resource guardianship.
Soft pathways matrix.
The new culture: balanced harmony.
4. Growth of Pattern Management:.
Multiplier principles.
Growth pattern information needs.
Growth management basics.
Macro management practice.
Growth pattern policy directions.
5. Urban Growth Management:.
Yesterday’s solutions today’s problems.
Suburbia and ex-suburbia costed.
Urban reforms: options and actions.
6. Tipping the Balance:.
Bibliographical Retrospective.
Notes.
References.
Index
