Sustainable Urban Planning

A technical problem with consolidation strategies is understanding some awkward notions, shown in figure 5.10,Density and covera ...

it so happens that most established standard suburbs within settler societies fall within the category of being neither low enou ...

provide services to each other. Densification also achieves a more efficient use of the existing utility infrastructure, saves g ...

always be identified and enhanced and the density for them can be increased, often by as much as 30 per cent without wholesale d ...

The recommendations offered in this box run with the set of Urban Social Arrangement and Style principles set out earlier in box ...

Inner-city rebuilding and retrofitting is consonant with a city lifestyle preference, to live close by entertainment and informa ...

Infill on formerly built-on central city sites is one possibility. Also likely is the conversion of some floors in commercial of ...

more environmentally sensitive pace. Another objective is to enhance overall greenness both within the public realm and by means ...

community. It is clear that were the cost of root-cause social correction compared to the cost of private surveillance provision ...

realize that there are wider aspects of neighbourhood resistance, ambience concerns, utilities upgrade, and transportation plann ...

retrofit the social and utilities facilities anddensify and partly repopulate in order to justify the investment called for. In ...

or at the urban edge, every ‘big box’ and ‘huge shed’ provided with dedicated parking. At a time before supermarkets and shoppin ...

Mainstreet improvements arise from both heritage pride and, particularly, commercial profit, bound together in one package. Thes ...

4 Establish roles of the organizer. 5 Define levels of involvement. 6 Define the planner’s role. 7 Clarify the role of the commu ...

with low-order goods supplied ‘locally’. One way to cope with commercial strip problems of dispersal, chaos and traffic congesti ...

Additional to this ‘theming’ is the accessory attachment of entertainment (picture houses), and recreation facilities (fitness c ...

residential lifestyle. Other aims include the need to park cars off-street and to plant trees on-street; to facilitate pedestria ...

Planning for conservancy and development outcomes is an ‘of the law’ activity and a ‘within the law’ process. Much that is decre ...

Future Development Zones(also styled as Con- tract Zones) lock up land for a future designated purpose, subject to the terms of ...

always the problem of how to get from ‘here’ (a patently unsustainable and socially ailing urbanity), to ‘there’ (prosperous soc ...