Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

ISBN-13: 9780415809887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 424 str.

Stephen M. Wheeler

Opis

In response to threats such as global warming, interest continues to grow worldwide in sustainable development development that can improve the long-term health of human and ecological systems. The question of how human communities can plan for a long existence on a small planet touches a great many professions and is of interest to readers from all walks of life.

Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded, and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact, walkable cities and towns might be created, how local ecosystems can be restored, how social inequalities might be reduced, how greenhouse gas emissions might be lowered, and how more sustainable forms of economic development can be brought about. Many photographs, graphics, and examples help illustrate key points.

Building upon past schools of planning theory, Planning for Sustainability lays out a sustainability planning framework that pays special attention to the rapidly evolving institutions and power structures of a globalizing world. By considering in turn each scale of planning international, national, regional, municipal, neighborhood, and site and building the book illustrates how sustainability initiatives at different levels can interrelate. The author argues that only by weaving together planning initiatives and institutions at different scales, and by integrating efforts across disciplines, can we move towards long-term human and ecological well-being.

The Second Edition will update material throughout the book, incorporate new material related to climate change, urban food systems, relationships between public health and the urban environment, and international development in China, India, and elsewhere. A new section containing a dozen short chapters considers sustainability planning topics. A new chapter also looks at the main elements of the sustainability planning approach, in particular skills of understanding context and determining sustainability priorities.

Spis treści

1.  Introduction  Part 1: The Nature of Sustainability Planning  2. Sustainable Development  3. Theory of Sustainability Planning  4. Sustainability Planning and the Three E's  5. Sustainability Planning in Practice  6. Tools for Sustainability Planning  Part Two: Issues Central to Sustainability Planning  7. Climate Change Planning  8. Energy and Materials Use  9. Environmental Planning  10. Land Use and Urban Growth  11. Urban Design  12. Transportation  13. Housing, Food, and Health  14. Green Architecture and Building  15. Social Equity and Environmental Justice  16. Economic Development  17. Population  18. Governance and Social Ecology  Part Three: Scales of Planning  19. International Planning  20. National Planning  21. State and Provincial Planning  22. Regional Planning  23. Local Planning  24. Neighborhood Planning  25. Site Planning and Architecture  Conclusion  26. How Do We Get There From Here?