Riddell, R., 2003, Sustainable urban planning, Blackwell, Oxford
- Author : Riddell, R.
- Year : 2003
- Publisher : Blackwell
- Publisher's Location : Oxford
- ISBN : 140510290X
- Pages : 336
- Abstract : 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 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: back grounding 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 coasted urban reforms: options and actions 6. Tipping the balance.
- Comments : KEYWORDS: urban planning, sustainability, urban development, management, environment