Urban Planning and Environment: Urban Planning and Environment
About the Book Series
Maintaining and enhancing living conditions in cities through a combination of physical planning and environmental management is a newly emerging focus of governments around the world. For example, local governments seek to insulate sensitive land uses such as residential areas from environmentally intrusive activities such as major transport facilities and manufacturing. Regional governments protect water quality and natural habitat by enforcing pollution controls and regulating the location of growth. Some national governments fund acquisition of strategically important sites, facilitate the renewal of brown fields, and even develop integrated environmental quality plans. The aim of this series is to share information on experiments and best practices of governments at several levels. These empirically-based studies present and critically assess a variety of initiatives to improve environmental quality. Although institutional and cultural contexts vary, lessons from one commonly can provide useful ideas to other communities. Each of the contributions are independently peer reviewed, and are intended to be helpful to professional planners and environmental managers, elected officials, representatives of NGOs, and researchers seeking improved ways to resolve environmental problems in urban areas and to foster sustainable urban development.
The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program: The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission
1st Edition
By David A. Johnson
May 16, 2017
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 stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. The program focused...
Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States
1st Edition
By Chang-Hee Christine Bae, Harry W. Richardson
November 15, 2016
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 that emphasize low-density suburban development and extreme automobile dependence, whereas European countries emphasize...
Environmental Planning in the Netherlands: Too Good to be True: From Command-and-Control Planning to Shared Governance
1st Edition
By Gert de Roo
November 10, 2016
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 ground-breaking schemes as Integrated Environmental Zoning, the City-Environment Project, the Bubble Concept and Policy Concepts and...
Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement: Practicable Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development
2nd Edition
By Gert de Roo, Donald Miller
October 31, 2016
Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning and environmental quality management has been widely adopted by governments worldwide. Fully revised and updated with a new preface by editors Donald ...
New Principles in Planning Evaluation
1st Edition
Edited
By Abdul Khakee, Angela Hull, Donald Miller
October 26, 2016
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 areas of concern in planning evaluation, including environmental justice and sustainable urban development. ...
Environmental Planning in the Caribbean
1st Edition
By Janet Henshall Momsen, Jonathan Pugh
September 06, 2016
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 together leading writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an interdisciplinary contemporary critical...
Spatial Planning, Urban Form and Sustainable Transport
1st Edition
Edited
By Katie Williams
September 06, 2016
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 ...
Transforming Distressed Global Communities: Making Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Fritz Wagner, Riad Mahayni, Andreas Piller
April 05, 2016
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 degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. ...
Urban Environmental Planning: Policies, Instruments and Methods in an International Perspective
2nd Edition
By Gert de Roo, Donald Miller
December 28, 2004
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...