Sustainable Urban Planning

Tipping the Balance
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0289-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

'Sustainable Urban Planning' introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. Its publication reflects a growing recognition in the fields of planning and environmental studies that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way.
The text takes a balanced approach, weaving together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation. It helps students and planners to connect the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain. This approach is mirrored in the structure of the book which is divided into two parts, one focusing on theories and the other on techniques.

Reviews:

This book is a substantial and pragmatic advancement in Planning and its application to ecological Sustainability. Its urban focus provides lessons for all who wish to sustain our environment, but face the everyday realities of private development.' 'Robert W. Collin, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Environmental Studies

Zielgruppe

students of planning, environmental science, geography and surveying, professional planners

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riddell, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Landschaftsplanung, Ländliche Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Glossary

List of Boxes

List of Figures

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:

Yesterdays solutions todays problems

Suburbia and ex-suburbia costed

Urban reforms: options and actions

6. Tipping the Balance:

Bibliographic Retrospective

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Riddell is Professor Emeritus at Auckland University, New Zealand.
University of Auckland