Sustainable Urban Planning

Globalization of diversified niche excellence Development with nature: co-evolution

Accept ‘limits to growth’ as absolute Cleaner production: cleaner products

Exploit ‘free-flow’ energy resources Avoid ecologically faulty processes

Conservation emphasis for ‘finite’ resources Exploitation of ‘free-flow’ resources

Sustenable emphasis for ‘renewable’ resources Depletion planning for ‘finite’ resources

Preservation emphasis for ‘heritage’ resources Sustainable practices for ‘renewable’

resources

Toxin production and use to be fully audited Preservation practices for ‘heritage’

resources

‘Polluter pays principle’ an applied instrument Levy pollution taxes and penalties neutrally

Local growth population policy Reuse; recover; recycle

Resource self-sufficiency and self-reliance Tourism: approached regionally

Hazards: defence force ever-ready Establish an ever-ready hazards defence

Simplicity; Economy; Reliability Appropriate technology a key factors

Avoid ‘giantism’ and ‘over-development’ Low energy embodiments to agri-industry

Mining: efficiency, plus restoration Photosynthesis, solar, hydro and wind

systems

Progressively increase motor fuel taxes Garbage sorting and recycling stations

Depletion planning for fossil-fuels use Waste-heat recovery bonuses

Promote low-energy sequestration projects Efficiency with fossil-fuel extraction

Energy-efficient automobile and highway Energy efficient building codes

policies

Freight: truck, train and boat: localize Reduce tonne-kilometres travelled

Conservative commodity packaging Retain railway easements in public domain

Simplicity; economy; sustainability Rural and urban: agriculture with industry

Reinforce periphery–centre relationships ‘Soft’ and ‘clean’ technological applications

Reinforce agri-industrial symbiosis Corporate Image: quality and excellence

Quality before quantity – profit from quality Polluter pays principle applied

‘Think small’ diversified processes and projects Sustainable diversified agriculture

Decentralize agricultural processing Food basket production close to settlements

Avoid ecologically faulty technologies Trace toxins through to safe disposal

‘Polluter pays principle’ applies Clean production: Residuals management

Respect urban-rural inter-reliance Region: an urban-rural symbiosis

Recognition: we mostly live in suburbia Proximity: home-work-recreation

Promote urban self-reliance and containment Increase urban nodal densities: cluster

Avert urban neurosis, alcoholism, crime, stress Regard small towns as urban optima

Retrofit suburbia and neighbourhoods Revitalize mainstreet

Recognition: urban wastes go to open-area Refurbish suburbia: urban containment and

‘sinks’ focus

Retrofit to light rail

BOX 3.7 Continued

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