Søkt på: Serie Urban Planning and Environment
totalt 21 treff
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 …
Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places
Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the ways in which the concept ‘resilience’ has been addressed in social sciences …
Bicycle Urbanism
Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental …
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 …
Nordic Experiences of Sustainable Planning
For well over a decade, there has been a drive towards sustainability in planning throughout the Nordic countries. But are these countries experiencing a paradigm shift in planning …
Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes
In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres …
Transforming Distressed Global Communities
Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological …
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 …
How Cities Will Save the World
Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively …