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Planning for a Sustainable Environment

Author : Andrew Blowers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134160747
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Planning for a Sustainable Environment written by Andrew Blowers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment. The book focuses on urban development, as population and resources and often the most severe environmental problems are concentrated in cities. It looks at the nature of environmental planning and at the main areas where changes have to be made: in energy policy, waste disposal and pollution control, construction, transport and infrastructure. The book concludes with chapters on planning a sustainable city and on how to bring the necessary changes and institutional arrangements about.

Planning for the Planet

Author : Simone Schleper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920299X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Planning for the Planet written by Simone Schleper and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially relevant themes, IUCN experts inevitably struggled to make global schemes for nature conservation a central concern for UNESCO, UNEP and other intergovernmental organizations.

Planning the Built Environment

Author : Larz Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351178571
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Planning the Built Environment written by Larz Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning the Built Environment takes a systematic, technical approach to describing how urban infrastructures work. Accompanied by detailed diagrams, illustrations, tables, and reference lists, the book begins with landforms and progresses to essential utilities that manage drainage, wastewater, power, and water supply. A section on streets, highways, and transit systems is highly detailed and practical. Once firmly grounded in these "macro" systems, Planning the Built Environment examines the physical environments of cities and suburbs, including a discussion of critical elements such as street and subdivision planning, density, and siting of community facilities. Each chapter includes essential definitions, illustrations and diagrams, and an annotated list of references. This timely book explains new physical planning methods and current thinking on cluster development, new urbanism, and innovative transit planning and development. Planners, architects, engineers, and anyone who designs or manages the physical components of urban areas will find this book both an authoritative reference and an exhaustive, understandable technical manual of facts and best practices. Instructors in planning and allied fields will appreciate the practical exercises that conclude each chapter: valuable learning tools for students and professionals alike.

Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning

Author : Elizabeth Deakin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0128151676
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning written by Elizabeth Deakin and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation, Land Use, and Environmental Planning examines the practices and policies linking transportation, land use and environmental planning needed to achieve a healthy environment, thriving economy, and more equitable and inclusive society. It assesses best practices for improving the performance of city and regional transportation systems, looking at such issues as public transit and non-motorized travel investments, mixed use and higher density urban development, radically transformed vehicles, and transportation systems. The book lays out the growing need for greater integration of transportation, land use, and environmental planning, looking closely at changing demographic needs, public health concerns, housing affordability, equity, and livability. In addition, strategies for achieving these desired outcomes are presented, including urban design and land use planning, regional and corridor-level transit plans, bike and pedestrian improvements, demand management strategies, and emerging technologies and services. The final part of the book examines implementation challenges, considering lessons from the US and around the globe at both local and regional levels. Introduces never-before-published research Offers best practices for transit, cycling, urban design and housing provision Assesses emerging developments, such as smart cities, new vehicle technologies, automated highways and transportation sharing Examines the institutional and political dimensions of sustainability planning at the urban and regional levels Utilizes case studies from around the world that show alternative ways forward

Environment & Behavior

Author : John Douglas Porteous
Publisher : Reading, Mass. ; Don Mills : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Environment & Behavior by : John Douglas Porteous

Download or read book Environment & Behavior written by John Douglas Porteous and published by Reading, Mass. ; Don Mills : Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Environmental Planning and Management

Author : Christian N. Madu
Publisher : Imperial College Press
ISBN 13 : 1860947980
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Planning and Management written by Christian N. Madu and published by Imperial College Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on environmental planning and management. Environmental problems are not purely scientific; some of the major problems deal with poor management and the inability to involve people in environmental decision making process. The approach taken in this book is to review environmental problems as they are affected by poor planning and management. Understanding of management issues involved will help to get top management to buy into environmental management. The tendency is for top management to view environmental management efforts as expensive and wasteful to an organization. However, when top management is exposed to the high cost of doing nothing and the lack of competitiveness as a result of poor environmental quality, it is more likely to buy into the idea of environmental quality and work towards achieving sustainable goals.

New Urbanism and American Planning

Author : Emily Talen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135992614
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book New Urbanism and American Planning written by Emily Talen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms ‘cultures’: incrementalism, plan-making, planned communities, and regionalism. She shows how these cultures connect, overlap, and conflict and how most of the ideas about building better settlements are recurrent. In the first part of the book Talen sets her theoretical framework and in the second part provides detailed analysis of her four ‘cultures’.She concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of the four cultures and the need to integrate these ideas as a means to promoting good urbanism in America.

Environment, Planning and Land Use

Author : Philip Kivell
Publisher : Routledge Revivals
ISBN 13 : 9781138313088
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Environment, Planning and Land Use written by Philip Kivell and published by Routledge Revivals. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998, this work focuses on the practical issues and policies relating to planning and managing both built and natural environments. It addresses the needs to pursue a greater degree of integration between the subject matter and the international frameworks of environmental planning.

Environmental Planning in Context

Author : Iain White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137315660
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Planning in Context written by Iain White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative introduction to environmental planning is designed for an international readership. Each of the book's chapters focuses on a key question in environmental planning and works through principles which are appropriate in any national context. Case studies from around the world show how the principles apply in practice.

Green Oslo

Author : Dr Mark Luccarelli
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409473511
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Green Oslo written by Dr Mark Luccarelli and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of urban development and, to do so, they need to evaluate existing modes of transportation and patterns of land use. Focusing on Oslo, an early leader in urban environmental policy making and a European 'green city' award winner, it argues that this evaluation must adopt and integrate two approaches: firstly, as a process of ecological modernization based on a combination of transit, densification, and mixed use development and secondly, as an opportunity to reconsider the character and substance of the built environment as a reflection of natural values, landscapes and natural resources of the wider region. Environmental debate and concern is widespread in Oslo, and this is reflected in its earlier planning decisions to leave intact large forest reserves, its successful ecological restoration of the Oslo fjord, the importance of outdoor culture among its residents, the relatively progressive political agenda of Norway, This book provides an opportunity for a critical assessment of the limitations and opportunities inherent in 'green Oslo' and suggests the need for much broader integrative approaches. It concludes by highlighting lessons which other cities might learn from Oslo.

The Built Environment

Author : Wendy R. McClure
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118174151
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Built Environment written by Wendy R. McClure and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a sweeping view of the ways we build things, beginning at the scale of products and interiors, to that of regions and global systems. In doing so, it answers questions on how we effect and are affected by our environment and explores how components of what we make—from products, buildings, and cities—are interrelated, and why designers and planners must consider these connections.

Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design

Author : Tom Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781857283228
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Landscape Planning and Environmental Impact Design written by Tom Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape.

Urban Environmental Planning

Author : Gert de Roo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351876643
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Urban Environmental Planning written by Gert de Roo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. Fully revised and updated, this second edition brings together a team of leading environmental planners and policy makers from the US, UK, Europe and SE Asia to address the central questions confronting sustainable urban development. Typical questions include: How can you measure and manage the negative environmental effects of intrusive urban activities such as manufacturing and transport on sensitive land uses including residential and recreational areas? Can a balance be found between reducing these effects through means such as separating conflicting land uses? While other sources identify the need for effective programmes to improve urban environmental quality, this volume describes and assesses analytical methods and implementing programmes practised by leading communities around the world.

GIS for Planning and the Built Environment

Author : Ed Ferrari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350312096
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book GIS for Planning and the Built Environment written by Ed Ferrari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and practical guide is a much-needed new textbook that illustrates the power of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis. Today's planner has a wealth of data available to them, much of which is increasingly linked to a specific location. From football clubs to Twitter conversations, government spending to the spread of diseases – data can be mapped. Once mapped, the data begins to tell stories, patterns are revealed, and effective planning decisions can be made. When used effectively, GIS allows students, planners, residents and policymakers to solve wicked problems in the environment, society and the economy. Geospatial data is now more freely available than it ever has been, as is much of the necessary software to analyse it. This contemporary text offers a practical guide to spatial analysis and what it can show us. In addition to explaining what GIS is and why it is such a powerful tool, the authors cover such topics as geovisualization, mapping principles, network analysis and decision making. Offering more than just theoretical or technical principles and concepts, the book applies GIS techniques to the real world, draws on global examples and provides practical advice on mapping the built environment. This accessible text is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking planning modules on GIS, data analysis and mapping, as well as for all planners, urbanists and geographers with an interest in how GIS can help us better understand the built environment from a socio-economic perspective.

Shrinking Cities in China

Author : Ying Long
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811326460
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Shrinking Cities in China written by Ying Long and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have begun attracting increasing attention. All chapters of the book were contributed by leading researchers on the subject in China. Richly illustrated with photographs for a better visual understanding of the topic, the book will benefit a broad readership, ranging from researchers and students of urban planning, urban geography, urban economics, urban sociology and urban design, to practitioners in the areas of urban planning and design.

Renewing Urban Communities

Author : Mark Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904272
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Renewing Urban Communities written by Mark Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland is now an urban society, and both parts of the island have experienced rapid urban-generated growth and new patterns of development in recent years. This inter-disciplinary book adopts an all-Ireland perspective to investigate the tension that exists between sustainable urban development values and rhetoric - such as increased densities, brown field development, the compact city and social inclusion - and the emerging geography of urban Ireland, influenced by consumer and lifestyle choices. The introduction provides an overview of the dynamics of urban change, particularly during the 1990s, and the experience of rapid economic growth. The following chapters are divided into two parts, considering sustainable urban environments, and sustainable communities. This book will appeal to students, academics, policy and decision-makers, given that it adopts both a qualitative and quantitative approach, and introduces a range of new empirical studies covering both physical and social sustainable development.

Spatial Planning, Urban Form and Sustainable Transport

Author : Katie Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351898736
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Planning, Urban Form and Sustainable Transport written by Katie Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability. This book addresses the relationship between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. Three sections present empirical research and commentaries from leading academics and practitioners from Europe, the USA, Australia and Japan. The first section considers the impact of urban form in combination with factors such as lifestyles and socio-demographic change on sustainable transport. The second addresses the impact of different elements of urban form, such as density, configuration and mix of uses, on mobility. The final section focuses on issues surrounding the implementation of spatial planning policies to support sustainable travel. The book will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students in the fields of planning, transport and geography.