Planning for Sustainability : creating livable, equitable, and ecological communities. / Stephen M. Wheeler. txt
Oxon ; New York : Routledge , 2013Edición: second editionDescripción: xvi, 401 p. ill. ; 25 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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- 9780415809887
- 9780415809894
- 9780203134559
- 307.1
- HT166 W484 2013
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How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.
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 and 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.
The second edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout, including an improved structure with chapters now organized under three sections: the nature of sustainable planning, issues central to sustainable planning, and scales of sustainable planning. New material includes greater discussion of climate change, urban food systems, the relationships between public health and the urban environment, and international development.
Building on 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. 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.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS:
BOXES IX --
FIGURES X --
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION XII --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XV --
1 Introduction 1 --
The need for change 2 --
A new era of sustainability planning 13 --
Levels of government and scales of planning 16 --
Recent trends in planning and design 18 --
Part One: The nature of sustainability planning 23 --
2 Sustainable development 25 --
Roots of the concept 25 --
Definitions and perspectives 30 --
Modernist, postmodernist, and ecological worldviews 33 --
The role of values and institutions 38 --
3 Theory of sustainability planning 41 --
Elements of the sustainability planning approach 41 --
Past perspectives on planning 52 --
Situating sustainability planning within planning theory 60 --
4 Sustainability planning and the “Three Es” 63 --
Sustainability and the environment 64 --
Sustainability and economics 65 --
Sustainability and equity 70 --
5 Sustainability planning in practice 77 --
Understanding context 77 --
Establishing priorities 80 --
Thinking strategically 82 --
Working collaboratively 83 --
Evaluating progress 84 --
Pushing the envelope 84 --
6 Tolls for sustainability planning 86 --
Planning processes 86 --
Sustainability indicators 93 --
Standards, benchmarks, and green rating system 95 --
Ecological footprint analysis 97 --
Carbon calculators 98 --
GIS and mapping 99 --
Environmental assessment and reporting 99 --
Institutions and policy mechanisms 100 --
Education, communication, and consensus- building 103 --
Organizing and coalition-building 103 --
Part Two: Issus central to sustainability planning 105 --
7 Climate change planning 107 --
The framework of climate planning 107 --
Mitigation: reducing emissions 109 --
Adaption: living with change 111 --
The challenge of changing behavior 115 --
8 Energy and materials use 117 --
Sustainable energy use 118 --
Sustainable materials use 121 --
Lifestyle change 125 --
9 Environment planning 126 --
Environment protection 126 --
Environment restoration 129 --
Environment education 132 --
10 Land use and urban growth 136 --
The compact city model 137 --
Urban form values 138 --
Tools for managing growth 143 --
The challenge of infill 153 --
11 Urban design 155 --
Urban design values 155 --
Ecological design 158 --
12 Transportation 163 --
Modes of travel 164 --
Land use 171 --
Pricing 171 --
Rethinking mobility 172 --
13 Housing, food and health 174 --
Housing 174 --
Food system 178 --
Healthy environments 179 --
14 Green architecture and building 184 --
Zero net energy buildings 185 --
Green building materials 187 --
Use of natural forms, flows, and materials 192 --
Green building programs and standards 193 --
Meeting social needs at the building scale 194 --
15 Social equity and environment justice 198 --
A just sustainability 199 --
Environment justice 203 --
Climate justice 204 --
16 Economic development 205 --
Rethinking the growth economy 205 --
A local and regional focus 208 --
Public control and capitalism 209 --
17 Population 212 --
IPAT revisited 212 --
A sustainable level 213 --
Planning to stabilize population 214 --
18 Governance and social ecology 216 --
Functional democracy 217 --
Vision 219 --
Public understanding and participation 220 --
Part Three: Scales of planning 223 --
19 International planning 225 --
Who plans at an international scale? 225 --
International planning issues 234 --
Sustainability issues in industrialized vs. less-developed countries 235 --
20 National planning 240 --
Who plans at an national scale 241 --
National sustainability frameworks 244 --
National planning issues 251 --
21 State and provincial planning 253 --
Who plans at the state or provincial scale? 254 --
State or provincial planning issues 255 --
22 Regional planning 262 --
Types of region 263 --
Who plans regions? 267 --
Regional sustainability issues 270 --
23 Local planning 284 --
Who plans at the local level? 285 --
Local sustainability issues 287 --
Local sustainability and climate changes plans 288 --
24 Neighborhood planning 291 --
Who does neighborhood planning? 292 --
Neighborhood sustainability issues 294 --
25 Site planning 325 --
Who plans at the site and building scale? 325 --
Sustainable site design issues 328 --
Economics and sustainable building 333 --
Part Four: Conclusion 335 --
26 How do we get there from here? 337 --
Developing an awareness from here? 338 --
Taking a strategic perspective 340 --
Dealing with power and improving democracy 341 --
An agenda for the future 343 --
NOTES 345 --
BIBLIOGRAPHY 361 --
INDEX 381 --
How can human communities sustain a long term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. 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 and 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 --
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Professor Stephen M. Wheeler, Ph.D., AICP is Associate Professor in the Landscape Architecture Program, Department of Human Ecology, at University of California, Davis. His areas of interest include sustainable development, planning for climate change, urban design, and built landscapes of metropolitan regions.