Planning for a Sustainable Future

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Sustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to \gnom Pfanning for a Sustainable Future provides a multi-disciplinary overview of sustainability issues in the land use context, focusing on principles and their application, the legal political and policy context and the implication of sustainable development thinking for housing, urban design and property development as well as waste and transport, The book concludes by considering how sustainable and unsustainable impacts alike can be measured and modelled, providing real tools to move beyond rhetoric into practice.
Planning for a Sustainable future is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners - its mix of introductory and advanced chapters aims to provide something for everyone. The book's editors and contributors all work at (or have close links to) the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. Antonia... Tovább

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Sustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to \gnom Pfanning for a Sustainable Future provides a multi-disciplinary overview of sustainability issues in the land use context, focusing on principles and their application, the legal political and policy context and the implication of sustainable development thinking for housing, urban design and property development as well as waste and transport, The book concludes by considering how sustainable and unsustainable impacts alike can be measured and modelled, providing real tools to move beyond rhetoric into practice.
Planning for a Sustainable future is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners - its mix of introductory and advanced chapters aims to provide something for everyone. The book's editors and contributors all work at (or have close links to) the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London. Antonia Layard is a lecturer at the Bartlett, where she teaches and researches on aspects of environmental and planning law and policy. Simin Davoudi is Professor of Planning and Environment and Director of the Centre for Urban Development and Urban Management at Leeds Metropolitan University. Susan Batty is a senior lecturer at the Bartlett where she teaches and researches on the politics and theory of planning and urban development.
Contributors to the book are: David Banister, Mike Batty, Matthew Carmona, Harry Dlmftriou, Michael Edwards, Nick Gallent, Peter Hall, Chris Marsh, Stephen Marshall, Daniel Mittler, Robin Thompson, Mark Thurston-Goodwin, Helena Titheridge and Jo Williams. Vissza