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Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement
Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning and environmental quality …
Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States
Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies. The USA is known for its settlement patterns …
Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level
Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners. However, the question of what can planners contribute to the advancement of such notions has not received much …
Environmental Planning in the Netherlands: Too Good to be True
The Netherlands is one of the most prominent and innovative countries in the field of environmental planning. Over the past decade, its government has introduced such …
Environmental Planning in the Caribbean
Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings …
New Principles in Planning Evaluation
This book provides recently developed and tested methods for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of planning and policy options. Several contributions focus on new substantive …
Plan-making for Sustainability
Around the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innovative approaches to …
Renewing Urban Communities
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 …
Urban Environmental Planning
Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental …
The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power …
Spatial Planning, Urban Form and Sustainable Transport
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 …
Towards Sustainable Cities
While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by …