Green infrastructure offers a contemporary approach to the conceptualisation and management of landscape resources and has developed rapidly in the UK, Europe and North America. As a result it has been proposed as meeting a number of the ecological, economic and social challenges of spatial planning. The attention given to the growth of green infrastructure has been supported by the development of a number of overarching principles-principles that provide green infrastructure research with a multi-layered understanding of the changing nature of landscape resources. The themes developed identify a number of conceptual and implementation principles for green infrastructure. The roles of integrated planning policy, strategic thinking and multi-functionality are discussed to highlight the different forms that green infrastructure research can take. Based on these discussions, this work proposes that a green infrastructure approach to planning can be used to meet the complex challenges of current landscape planning. With continued development of green infrastructure, some of the most pressing issues in planning, such as climate change or sustainable development, can be addressed.
This revised work continues to serve as a valuable resource for students, researchers, practitioners, and policy advisors working across transport, land use, and planning.
Dreaming the Rational City : The Myth of American City Planning by M. Christine Boyer Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city - planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort ...
Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- City Planning in Practice-Chapter Tie-in List -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- SECTION I The Foundations of City Planning -- 1 Introduction: The ...
Designing cities. Includes colour and B & W photographs.
A User Conflict Model for Urban Trail Systems [microform]: a Case Study of Calgary
Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities: The Final Report: Towards a City of Cities
This study focuses on issues relating to the planning, funding and implementation of transport and land use in Greater Sydney, how these impact currently on behaviour and lifestyle and how residents want Sydney to develop in the future.
"With uncertainty and unpredictable change in the built environment, and constant pressure on professionals and organisations to make choices, many of strategic significance, this book shows how strategic planning methods are used to tackle ...
Dalibard , and C. Salomon . Mar 92 , 66p MIC - 93-07297 / GAR PC E07 / MF E01 Text in French ; summary in English . Prepared in coopnized around 4 major groupings of issues : Settlement , Calgary Regional Planning Commission ( Alberta ) ...