Sustainable Urban Planning

Introduction The within-nation planning practices critically appraised in this book are grounded in the United States, Canada, A ...

a decision-flash they can be a lasting influence for either ‘good’ or bad’. Get urban and rural policies wrong, and things mostl ...

is democratic government, intoned by John Ralston Saul (1997) as ‘the most pow- erful force possessed by the individual, her own ...

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Part I Principles 1 Sustainable and Ethical 2 Knowledge Power Outcomes: The Theory Fundamentals All nations access and exploit t ...

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1 Sustainable and Ethical What impresses the newcomer to the Anglo settler society nations of Northern America and Australasia i ...

8 Principles has always been dominant. Land-use patterning originated with community conflicts which arose when landowners set o ...

Sustainable and Ethical 9 Australasian situations, is well explained in Visions of Suburbiaedited by Roger Silverstone (1997).^1 ...

when socio-environmental responsibility becomes part of profitable business practice. I discern three business-style ‘certaintie ...

for a harmoniously balanced future, do not get confused. Setting out to reconcile this dilemma enables us to get our heads aroun ...

Development, Planning and Sustainability 12 Principles A capsule definition for developmentis that it is a process which sets ou ...

Honours cycles: seasons, life patterns, highs and lows Designs artfully and redesigns thoughtfully Balances socio-economic-envi ...

for committed ‘green’ enthusiasts through a hijacking of their environmentalist lexicon by the likes of genetic engineers and fo ...

the monetary risk to big-game players. It involves heralding composite risk, social, economic, environmental, for all sectors an ...

all else, leave everything to that imperfect accessory to societal wellbeing, the ‘market force’.^7 The greatest challenge to ne ...

Box 1.1 Terra psyche: the land settlement continuum ownership, and beyond. Ultimately it is ‘the beyond’ con- tinuum to which pl ...

encountered. The system of recording landownership in the manner of a stock- holding facilitated the bartering of land. If bound ...

wealth became an upper-crust citizenry, and a significant propertied sub-set main- tained their positions of power privilege and ...

Interests The more one thinks about the dominance of private property ownership the harder appears to be the battle to turn land ...