Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities - Softcover

Wheeler, Stephen M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415322863 ISBN 13: 9780415322867

Verlag: Routledge, 2004

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Existing patterns of urbanization are unsustainable in the long run. Current development practices consume enormous amounts of land and resources, damage local ecosystems, produce pollutants, create huge inequalities between groups of people and undermine local community and quality of life. Unfortunately planning has itself led to many unsustainable development practices.

Planning for Sustainability presents a straightforward, systematic analysis of how more sustainable cities and towns can be brought about. It does so in a highly readable manner that considers in turn each scale of planning: international, national, regional, municipal, neighbourhood, site and building. In the process it illustrates how sustainability initiatives at these different scales interrelate and how an overall framework can be developed for more livable communities.

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Stephen M. Wheeler is Assistant Professor of Physical Planning and Design at the University of New Mexico.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415322863
• ISBN 13: 9780415322867
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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