Sustainable Urban Planning Paperback

Robert Riddell

Sustainable Urban Planning" introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. This timely text reflects a growing recognition that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way. It weaves together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation. It helps students and planners to marry the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain.Sustainable Urban Planning" introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. This timely text reflects a growing recognition that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way. It weaves together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation. It helps students and planners to marry the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain.

English

Wiley-Blackwell

356

Robert Riddell is Professor Emeritus at Auckland University, New Zealand.

This book is a substantial and pragmatic advancement in Planning and its application to ecological Sustainability. Its urban focus provides lessons for all who wish to sustain our environment, but face the everyday realities of private development." Robert W. Collin, Associate Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Environmental Studies