Planning for sustainability : creating livable, equitable, and ecological communities /
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| Author / Creator: | Wheeler, Stephen M., 1957- (Stephen Maxwell) |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. |
| Description: | vi, 280 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5518645 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- The need for change
- The role of planning
- Levels of government and scales of planning
- Recent trends in urban planning and design
- Chapter 2. Sustainable development
- Roots of the concept
- Definitions and perspectives
- Modernist, postmodernist, and ecological worldviews
- The role of values and institutions
- Chapter 3. Theory of sustainability planning
- Elements of the sustainability planning approach
- Past perspectives on planning
- Situating sustainability planning within planning theory
- Planning and power
- Planners' roles
- Chapter 4. Planning and the Three Es
- Sustainability and the environment
- Sustainability and economics
- Sustainability and equity
- Chapter 5. Issues central to sustainability planning
- Growth management and land use planning
- Urban design
- Housing
- Transportation
- Environmental protection and restoration
- Energy and materials use
- Green architecture and building
- Equity and environmental justice
- Economic development
- Population
- Chapter 6. Tools for sustainability planning
- Planning processes
- Sustainability indicators
- Ecological footprint analysis
- Other research and analytic tools
- Institutions and policy mechanisms
- Education, communication, and consensus-building
- Organizing and coalition-building
- Chapter 7. International planning
- Institutions
- International planning issues
- Sustainability issues in industrialized vs. less-developed countries
- Chapter 8. National planning
- Who plans at a national scale?
- National sustainability frameworks
- National planning issues
- Chapter 9. State and provincial planning
- Who plans at the state and provincial scale?
- State or provincial planning issues
- Chapter 10. Regional planning
- Types of regions
- Who plans regions?
- Regional sustainability issues
- Chapter 11. Local government planning
- Who plans at the local level?
- Local sustainability issues
- Comprehensive local sustainability plans
- Chapter 12. Neighborhood planning
- Who does neighborhood planning?
- Neighborhood sustainability issues
- Chapter 13. Site planning and architecture
- Who plans at the site and building scale?
- Sustainable site design issues
- Ecological architecture
- Chapter 14. How do we get there from here?
- Developing an awareness of opportunities
- A strategic perspective
- Dealing with power and improving democracy
- An agenda for the future
- Notes
- Bibliography
