Sustainable Urban Planning Tipping the Balance [Paperback]

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• This timely text introduces the principles and practice behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.
  
• Reflects a growing recognition that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way.
  
• Weaves together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation.
  
• Helps students and planners to marry the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain.

List of Figures.

Acknowledgements.

Glossary.

Introduction.

Part I: Principles:.

1. Sustainable and Ethical:.

Development, planning, sustainability.

Property, interests, neomodernity.

Conservancy and development ethics.

With sustainable and ethical intent.

2. Knowledge power outcomes:.

How planning works.

Traditional planning.

The radical approach.

Progressive change.

Part II: Practice:.

3. Charter for Conservation with Development:.

Backgrounding.

Foregrounding.

Resource exploitation and discard dynamics.

Socio-environmentalism: The new reality.

Resource guardianship.

Soft pathways matrix.<l&