Sustainable Urban Planning

towns, following a nineteenth-century urban concentration, is a twentieth-century de-concentration, now tracking back again to a ...

its inhabitants – focus, legibility, personality, security and sense of place as an alternative to single-use residential patter ...

Prince of Wales (1989), Krier (1979) are all expressions of revisionist (traditional) styles: narrow streets, often with rear la ...

204 Practice The recommendations start with a contextual scene-setting passage on overall urban social arrangement and style. Th ...

Box 5.1 Urban social arrangement and style Form: the achievement of community scale and local identity (edges); and a wholesome ...

Box 5.1 Continued Ecological Harmony: good design, appropriate materials, wholesomely textured, sustainably landscaped, represen ...

Urban Growth Management 207 designer intent in relation to worthy social outcome.^19 Withal it has to be under- stood that littl ...

let alone meet the recreational needs of the ‘baby strollers’, the ‘soccer mums’ and ‘frisbee dads’. It is of course easy to dec ...

The following ten-point listing cannot bring about ‘urban delight’: but what follows are the key ingredients of good urban form, ...

inputs at increased levels of density – and for resolving urban complications (through design) against noise-intrusiveness, unsa ...

directives are not always clear, and the urban policy recommendations are far from specific. One reason for this is that Agenda ...

212 Practice Metropolis, 1995). Low-pension adults immobilized in retirement, and the denial of opportunities for children in yo ...

Urban Growth Management 213 within larger rural holdings – placing constraint on the division of large farms into minimum units ...

214 Practice further – reinforced by binding all farm holders into a ‘right to farm and nothing else’ rural tax base. At its mos ...

Urban Growth Management 215 catchy title Sprawl Bustingmasking its serious polemic, ‘mandate designer’ Jerry Weitz (1999) review ...

approach – selecting areas for conservation and farming first, subdividing the remainder last – where much of the rural landscap ...

activities) remain part of the rural scene. Small-town issues are addressed in the next passage. A significant offshoot to ex-ur ...

although many find ways to gain an income from working outside the tax-gathering system. In other words it is possible to be ‘su ...

Urban Growth Management 219 The most certain process of change for small towns is that which effects the demographic trend in t ...

middle-out ideas, resources and energies are available as catalysts for local proj- ects, most obviously in the style of craft o ...