Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
List of figures v --
Preface ix --
Introduction xi --
1 The planning process 1 --
1 Strategic planning 3 --
2 Planning scale 49 --
3 Community participation 91 --
2 Implementing the plan 121 --
4 The base of regulatory controls 123 --
5 Zoning 137 --
6 Development control 163 --
3 Planning and climate change 203 --
7 Planning and greenhouse gas mitigation 205 --
8 Adapting for climate change 227 --
Conclusion 245 --
Appendix 1 253 --
Appendix 2 257 --
Works cited 270 --
Index 295 --
List of figures:
Figure 1 - 1 Archimedean point of reference? A city is more than a set of buildings, roads, and open spaces 4 --
Figure 1 - 2 An example of a rational comprehensive planning process, adapted from Malaysia’s Federal Department of Town and Country Planning 8 --
Figure 1 – 3 46th Street and 8th Avenue, Manhattan 12 --
Figure 1 – 4 Dong Koi Street in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 14 --
Figure 1 – 5 Traditional neighbourhood elements in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire 15 --
Figure 1 – 6 Material flows between the national and rest of the world (ROW) economies and the environment 18 --
Figure 1 – 7 Tverskaya Street, Moscow 41 --
Figure 2 – 1 Kuala Lumpur SENTRAL, Malaysia 56 --
Figure 2 – 2 Sprawl in Lisbon, Portugal 72 --
Figure 2 – 3 Ribbon development in Flanders, Belgium 76 --
Figure 2 – 4 New Urbanism development in Seaside, Florida 77 --
Figure 2 – 5 Urban growth boundary in Helvitia, Oregon 81 --
Figure 2 – 6 Integrated transport in Charlotte, North Carolina 84 --
Figure 4 – 1 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California 131 --
Figure 5 – 1 Industrial zones separated from residential areas 138 --
Figure 5 – 2 The Meadowhall Regional Shopping Centre in Sheffield 143 --
Figure 5 – 3 The Shinjuku renaissance district, Tokyo 148 --
Figure 6 – 1 Affordable Housing in Edinburg 193 --
Figure 6 – 2 Diagram adapted from the Smart Code of Lauderhill, Florida 197 --
Figure 7 – 1 Toyoma prefecture compact city, Japan 214 --
Figure 7 – 2 Transport – oriented design (TOD) IN Emerson Park East, St Luis Illinois 218 --

The land use planning systems of the world are remarkably similar. Yet real urban problems crime, drug, abuse, unequality, alination - are not easily solved by a traditional strategic planning process. Planning regimes are therefore under constant pressure to adjust, but often with a lack of knowledge of how things might be done better. Even though each regime arises in a cultural milieu, international trends can be spotted and best practices discerned. This work is schlarly and emotional, revealing a grat love of cities and expressing a call for the development of revelant, more grounded, land use planning. Leslie A. Stein is Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Sydney, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. He was recently Senior Fellow at the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies at Pace University in New York and Visiting Scholar at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. He was Chief Counsel to the Sydbey Metropolitan Stategy and his books include Principles of Panning Law. Professor Stein is also a certified psychoanalyst and a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York --