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Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance

ISBN: 978-1-405-14351-6

April 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

356 pages

Description

Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.

  • 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.
About the Author
Robert Riddell is Professor Emeritus at Auckland University, New Zealand.
Features

  • 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.