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The purpose of planning : Creating sustainable towns and cities /
Planning systems have evolved to protect and shape our built and natural environments. But what exactly do they do and how do they work? This book answers these questions and many more to help the reader understand the purpose of planning.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: One. Why plan?
- How towns and cities grow and change
- Why towns and cities can't be left to themselves
- The role of planning
- How planning works
- The rest of the book
- two. The big picture
- Producing a plan
- Planning and land uses
- The importance of infrastructure
- The limits to spatial planning
- three. Somewhere to lay my hat
- The need for housebuilding
- The amount of houseboilding
- The location of housebuilding
- The implications for the planning system
- Planning and affordable housing
- four. Downtown
- The roots of urban decline
- Modernist urban regeneration
- Urban regeneration and urban communities
- Urban regeneration and the private sector
- The revival of the case for demolition.
- Five. This green and pleasant land
- The desirability of conservation
- Conserving our built heritage
- Conserving landscapes and habitats
- Conservation and the market
- six. Not in my back yard
- The causes of NIMBYism
- NIMBYism and the public interest
- Engaging communities
- The role of local elected politicians
- seven. My home is my castle
- The distinctiveness of home-based development
- Home and the neighbours
- Home and the neighbourhood
- Home and sustainability
- eight. The good life
- Planning and market dynamics
- Planning and engagement with communities and stakeholders
- Planning and the clash of public and private interests
- Planning for sustainable towns and cities
- The purpose of planning.