Urban Environmental Planning

Author : Gert de Roo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351876643

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Urban Environmental Planning by Gert de Roo Pdf

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.

Author : Josef Leitmann
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015048768058

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Sustaining Cities by Josef Leitmann Pdf

Meet the "brown agenda" challenge of fast-growing cities. Planning and development professionals who need to cope with the problems of increasing urbanization will find practical tools in Joseph Leitmann's Sustaining Cities: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design. This unique reference explores the highest priority problems -sanitation and drainage, solid waste management, degradation of environmentally sensitive land, uncontrolled emissions, accidents linked to congestion, and improper disposal of hazardous waste, problems that result in poor health, lower productivity, reduced income and quality of life. It's the first book to give you realistic, innovative, in-depth options that you can use on a day-to-day basis, with examples from many parts of the world. You get a proven planning framework and strategic approach for addressing the environmental issues confronting and caused by cities, and resources you can turn to for more help, information, and training.

Author : Adrian Atkinson,Julio D. Dávila,Michael Mattingly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429798955

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The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas by Adrian Atkinson,Julio D. Dávila,Michael Mattingly Pdf

First published in 1999, this volume features contributors specialising in urban planning and examines the challenges of environmental planning in urban areas, focusing on policy, management, organisation and policy. A collection of ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers, they are written by some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the field of urban sustainability. The authors go beyond debates about approach and policy options to look at what is taking place. The experience of urban environmental management is presented from several countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia. They examine over twenty case studies in contributing to existing knowledge of environmental management practice in urban areas, emphasising the issue in both Northern and Southern countries in relation to growing awareness in the North and rapid city growth in the South. While containing critical analyses, the emphasis is placed on achievements and promising developments of vital importance to local administrators, policy-makers, town planners, academics, environmentalists and students alike.

Author : Gert de Roo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351927222

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Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement by Gert de Roo Pdf

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 Miller and Gert de Roo and new figures throughout, this second edition reports on the experience of 23 innovative programmes from 11 countries. Mostly written by practicing planners and government officials, the book looks at a wide range of integrated approaches which have been implemented and the critical assessment of these provides lessons for local and national governments interested in setting up similar schemes and suggesting ways of further innovation. While the Rio Earth summit, Habitat II and Kyoto have been a source of global principles for improving the environmental quality of human settlements, this book explores approaches to implement these policy positions and to make these calls for action operational. Consequently, the presentation of these cases deals not only with the technical aspects of measuring and controlling environmental spillovers, but also with the institutional, political and financial aspects of these programmes.

Author : Giovanni Campeol
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030461805

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Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning by Giovanni Campeol Pdf

This volume gathers a selection of research contributions on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), including theoretical and methodological studies and real-world case studies. It sheds new light on the respective steps in the procedure defined in the SEA Directive from theoretical and operational standpoints, intended to enhance the sustainability of plans and programmes adopted by local, regional and national authorities. Improving the legitimacy and transparency of decision-making in the field of environmental management was one of the goals that led the European Commission (EU) to adopt Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of environmental programmes’ effects. This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to SEA, and addresses the demand for policies and strategies to strengthen resilience through concrete measures to reduce energy consumption, mitigate pollution, promote social inclusion and create urban identity.

Author : Rodney R. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015026918840

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Urban Environmental Management by Rodney R. White Pdf

A provocative account regarding the disturbing dynamics of environmental change, demonstrating that this new environmental crisis shares its origins with traditional crises. Topics discussed include the impact of the environmental crisis on urban planning; major physical functions of the city which critically react with the environment; the relationship between poor quality and inequity in the cities; as well as a new Utopian's opinion of today's problems.

Author : Yvonne Rydin
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0333731913

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Urban and Environmental Planning in the UK by Yvonne Rydin Pdf

The second edition of this innovative introduction to urban and environmental planning combines comprehensive coverage of institutions and procedures with detailed analysis of the economic and political context of planning, its historical development and competing theoretical approaches. Extensively revised and updated to take account of changes in the context and content of planning into New Labour's second term, extensive use is made throughout of case studies, summary charts and exhibits to bring the subject to life.

Author : Josef Leitmann
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0821327909

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Rapid Urban Environmental Assessment: Methodology and preliminary findings by Josef Leitmann Pdf

Urban Management Program Series Paper 14. A recent evaluation of urban research in developing countries noted that scant data are available on the urban environment, as little research has been done on the topic. This first volume in a two-volume set describes the development of a three-step evaluation process whereby data are collected and analyzed to support the involvement of stakeholders, suggests future directions and improvements, and summarizes results from use of the approach in selected cities. The second of a two- volume set (see below) contains tools that practitioners and researchers can apply directly in the field. See also Volume 2 (ISBN 0-8213-2791-7) Stock No. 12791.

Author : Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610912266

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Urban Ecological Design by Danilo Palazzo,Frederick R. Steiner Pdf

This trailblazing book outlines an interdisciplinary "process model" for urban design that has been developed and tested over time. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city precinct or public space, but to describe useful steps to approach the transformation of urban spaces. Urban Ecological Design illustrates the different stages in which the process is organized, using theories, techniques, images, and case studies. In essence, it presents a "how-to" method to transform the urban landscape that is thoroughly informed by theory and practice. The authors note that urban design is viewed as an interface between different disciplines. They describe the field as "peacefully overrun, invaded, and occupied" by city planners, architects, engineers, and landscape architects (with developers and politicians frequently joining in). They suggest that environmental concerns demand the consideration of ecology and sustainability issues in urban design. It is, after all, the urban designer who helps to orchestrate human relationships with other living organisms in the built environment. The overall objective of the book is to reinforce the role of the urban designer as an honest broker and promoter of design processes and as an active agent of social creativity in the production of the public realm.

Author : Anastassios Perdicoulis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : City planning
ISBN : NWU:35556040950487

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Systems Thinking and Decision Making in Urban and Environmental Planning by Anastassios Perdicoulis Pdf

As a result, concerns, defined objectives, and corresponding actions are uniquely linked.

Author : Nicole Gurran
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781920899776

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Australian urban land use planning by Nicole Gurran Pdf

Urban and regional planning is increasingly central to public policy in Australia and internationally. As cities and regions adapt to profound economic, societal and technological shifts, new urban and environmental problems are emerging - from inadequate systems of transport and infrastructure, to declining housing affordability, biodiversity loss and human-induced climate change. Australian urban land use planning provides a practical understanding of the principles, processes and mechanisms for strategic and proactive urban governance. Substantially updated and expanded, this second edition explains and compares the legislation, policy- and plan-making, development assessment and dispute resolution processes of Australia's eight state and territorial planning jurisdictions as well as the changing role of the Commonwealth in environmental and urban policy. This new edition also extends the coverage of planning practice, with a new chapter on planning for climate change, a more detailed treatment of planning for housing diversity and affordability, and a comprehensive analysis of the New South Wales planning system and its evolution over the last 30 years. Nicole Gurran is an associate professor in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on comparative planning approaches to housing, ecological sustainability and climate change. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, she practised as a planner in several state government roles, focusing on local environmental plan-making, environmental management and housing policy. She is on the Executive Board of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association.

Author : Brian J. L. Berry,Frank E. Horton
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015006799665

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Urban Environmental Management: Planning for Pollution Control by Brian J. L. Berry,Frank E. Horton Pdf

Author : Ercoskun, Ozge Yalciner
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781613504543

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Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities by Ercoskun, Ozge Yalciner Pdf

Ecological and technological (eco-tech) planning provides a possible response to the essential issues of sustainability and rehabilitation in rapidly growing urban spaces. Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning: Creating Smart Cities addresses the ecological, technological, and social challenges faced in the smart urban planning and design of settlements when using eco-technologies – from sustainable land use to transportation, and from green areas to municipal applications – with a focus on resilience. Containing research from leading international experts, this book provides comprehensive coverage and definitions of the most important issues, concepts, trends, and technologies within the planning field.

Author : Jason Byrne,Neil Sipe,Jago Dodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317800569

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Australian Environmental Planning by Jason Byrne,Neil Sipe,Jago Dodson Pdf

Winner of the Planning Institute of Australia's 2015 Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award! Australians from all walks of life have begun to realise the nation’s cities cannot sustain profligate growth indefinitely. Dwindling water supplies, failing food bowls, increased energy costs, more severe bushfires, severe storms, flooding, coastal erosion, rising transport expenses, housing shortages and environmental pollution are now daily news headlines. Australia’s cities may have reached their ecological limits: a new model for planning the places we live is needed. Understanding the natural cycles of the city is just as important to planning our cities as knowledge of local ordinances, indeed much more so. A profound knowledge of environmental processes is critical for successful planning in today’s world. Environmental planners take as their guiding principle the concept of designing with nature, approaching cities as living organisms that consume water, energy and raw materials, and produce waste. This metabolic view of cities means we can find new solutions to old problems, and steer our cities towards a more sustainable form of planning. Written specifically for students and professionals working in city planning in Australia, this ground-breaking new book enables Australian planners, architects and developers to get a better understanding of the fundamental principles of environmental planning for cities, showing how land, water, air, energy, wildlife and people shape our built environments, and how in turn environmental processes must be better understood if we are to make informed decisions about developing cities that are more sustainable. The book’s coverage is comprehensive: from an overview of the concepts and theories of environmental planning, through analysis of governance systems and urban environmental processes to agendas and policies for the future, all the key topics are covered in depth, with recommendations for supporting reading and an unrivalled selection of additional materials. Ideal for students, essential for professionals, Australian Environmental Planning is vital reading for more sustainable cities in a more sustainable world.

Author : Archana Ghosh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 8180690407

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Urban Environment Management by Archana Ghosh Pdf

Provides Insight About The Environmental Problems Plaguing The Urban Areas In A Cross-Country Perspectives. Emphasizes The Partnership Between The Local Government And The Community In Urban Environmental Management Sustainable Development. Provides Case Studies Also.