Sustainable Urban Planning

Urban Growth Management 221 Water’s edge urbanization (Refer also to the Coastal Zone Pattern passage in chapter 4) Turn now the ...

spare time available from their second-mortgaged owners. In this context, Lucas (1970) recognized that: Sea coasts (and lakeside ...

tices both along the shore and offshore. What has to be taken on board is that water’s edge development of all kinds is both a m ...

conforming to a vision retrieved from the past. Yet all credit to the Duany, Plater-Zyberk, Speck revival of the Traditional Nei ...

lifestyle, indiscriminately situated on agriculturally productive land. This squan- dering of a rural asset to satisfy an attach ...

Incorporation of these values and virtues into a sited-and-built greenfield village amounts, essentially, to using fewer from wi ...

on-site food production, roughly summarizes the eco-village concept pragmati- cally. Eco-village sites would also capture and us ...

assisted by fitting remote-controlled garage doors! Despite local imperatives for growth containment (previously addressed) edge ...

Urban Growth Management 229 layouts, and potential layouts at a quadrupled density. This higher-density arrangement illustrates ...

these ‘clustering’ and ‘pocketing’ styles should be lessthan 400 m or 1,300 feet (six to eight minutes’ walk time) away from pre ...

the previous situation, and ever will be, for the historical prototype, the European inner suburb.^52 Co-housing, advocated by M ...

(Refer also to box 5.2 Basic urban componentry) 1 Minimize residential vehicle access points entering onto traffic collector roa ...

their policy grasp and design power to improve suburban provisioning to the highest and best outcome, as well as rendering subur ...

because of the ‘saved’ land, the foreshortened run of utility lines, and the increased density of dwellings. Such a socially app ...

ria. In quantitative terms those recommendations enjoyed recognition, but in the context of quality (the positioning, design and ...

being for public open space, and the developer preference being for an increased building allowance! The traditional format comp ...

The following three-part listing reviews the extent to which layout designers can be effective in providing focus and sociabilit ...

focus. Straightening out streets and orienting them in purposeful directions (toward schools, shops, workplaces) in association ...

and reurbanization over time is its connection to the ever-recurring family cycle home place, workplace, school place, shopping ...

‘ghettos’ because they accept racial division, ethnic exclusivity, pecking-order prissiness, and inculcate smugness. Resisting e ...