Urban and municipal planning and policy Books

Book SynopsisThis book offers a thorough description of the challenges posed by increasing global urbanization. In addition, comprehensive perspectives are offered on how the contemporary urban challenges of our time are tackled by existing designers, architects, urban planners, and landscape architects thereby considering climate change, migration, resilience, politics, and environmental degradation. It includes insights from environmental design, geography, strategic planning, and engineering design. It goes beyond the jargon of technical innovation, and exposes the political, social and physical effects of digitalizing the world in smart cities. The book focuses on the application of geospatial technology of smart cities – including system design for basic services, real-time control and the Internet of Things. It highlights the planning of land use, strategic development, and ecosystem-based knowledge to enhance economic growth and healthy urban environment and smart city management. The book also shows the contradictory aspects of smart city studies, and provides useful insights into the creation and execution of policies to strengthen decision-making processes in smart cities. This book leads the reader to a greater understanding of smart city growth, both theoretical and realistic and as such it provides an interesting read for urban geographers, urban designers and planners, environmental specialists, practitioners, students.Table of ContentsSection- I- Introduction: 1: Urbanism and Sustainable Development: A Dynamic Approach: Vasco Barbosa, Aldo Alvarez Risco.- Section-II –Urban and Smart Cities Land use Dynamics and Changing Biodiversity: 2: Problems of Habitat Destruction and Shrinkage of Wetlands, Change in Forest Cover: Nestor Asiamah,James Hayes.- 3: Resource Allocation, Depletion and Changing Urbanization and Future Smart Cities: Mohamed Elhoseny, Beata Wieteska-Rosiak.- 4: Urban and Smart Cities Changing Bio-diversity related to Water Scarcity and Flood using of geospatial technology- Case Study: Rostam Saberifar.- 5: Remote sensing and GIS-based study on Soil Erosion, Land Contamination, Land Degradation and Smart Cities: Narsimha Adimalla.- Section-III –Climate Change and Urban and Smart Cities Health and Waste Management: 6: Web-based Analysis of Air, and Water Pollution in Urabn and Smart Cities- Case Study: G.K. Panda, Sailesh Samanta.- 7: Smart Cities and Associates Solid Waste, Bio medical Waste, E-Waste issues and Management: Md. Atiqur Rahman,Jogesh Laishram.- 8: Smart Cities and Associated Problems of Temperature increase and heat island, Issues Related with Global Warming using spatial information: Abul Basar, Nils Ruther, Ashwani Tiwari.- Section-IV –Advances on Urbanism and Smart Cities Socio-Environmental Perspectives.- 9: Urban Population Growth, Urban Sprawl, Smart City and Associated Problems: Meysam Argany, Clement Chipenda.- 10: Artificial Intelligence and Urban Hazards, Smart City Environment and Societal impact: V.Kasthuri Thilagam,Uday Chatterjee, B. Chakraborty.- 11: Using Geospatial Application and Urban/Smart CityEnergy Conservation- Case study: Scott Berson, Jorge Cerda.- Section -V –Urban Environmental Management, Solutions, and Sustainable Smart Cities: 12: Urban Ecosystem Services, Environmental Planning, and Smart Cities Management: Jay Mittal, Madhuri Sharma.- 13: Smart Cities Urban Governance, Green Space and Policy Planning to Achieve Sustainability: Anthony Mushinge, V.Kasthuri Thilagam.- 14: Smart City Planning and Management and Internet of Things (IoT): Somnath Ghosal, V.R. Sumathi.- 15: Sustainable Smart City Planning, Innovation, and Management: Adekunle Olusola Adeyemo, R.M.K.Ratnayake.- 16: Future Strategy for Sustainable Smart Cities: Dinesh Kumar Kandaswamy, Ahmed Alhuseen, Amir Shakibamanesh.- Section-VI- Conclusions: 17: Concluding Chapter: Uday Chatterjee, Madhuri Sharma, Sushobhan Majumdar, Jay Mittal.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book conveys attention to the theme of transition towards resilience and sustainability and its evolutionary perspective that emphasizes the complexity and uncertainty that governments and society are called to address in response to the ongoing challenges. "New Metropolitan Perspective Post COVID Dynamics: Green and Digital Transition, between Metropolitan and Return to Villages’ Perspectives”, 25–27 May 2022, Reggio Calabria, Italy. The papers included in the book are grouped around the following main topics: the envisaged transition towards resilience and sustainability; the relevance of the planning dimension for defining sustainable development pathways and managing complexity; and the green and digital transition by glimpsing at approaches, experiences, and cases that outline innovative solutions in cities and inner areas. The book primarily targets the academic and policymaker communities involved in managing the complexity of the transition for regions and cities.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants’ interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in Southwest Nigeria. It examines the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) demonstrated for wellbeing through home gardens by this largest ethno-linguistic group in Nigeria. This is in addition to the ES of Osun Grove UNESCO World Heritage Site, Osogbo; Biological Garden and Park, Akure; Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos; Adekunle Fajuyi Park, Ado-Ekiti; Muri Okunola Park, Lagos; and some institutional GI including University of Ibadan Botanical Gardens, Ibadan; Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Botanical Garden, Abeokuta; and University of Lagos Lagoon Front Resort, Lagos, Nigeria. The study draws on theoretical praxis of Western biophilic ideologies, spirit ontologies of the Global South, and largely, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) to examine eco-cultural green spaces, home gardens, and English-types of parks and gardens as archetypes of GI in Yoruba traditional urbanism, colonial and post-colonial city planning. The book provides methods of achieving a form of modernized traditionalism as means of translating the IKS into design strategies for eco-cultural cities. The strategies are framework, model, and ethnographic design algorithms that are syntheses of the lived experiences of the key informants. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Ecosystem Services of Green Infrastructure – Towards a Theoretical Praxis Provisioning Services Supporting Services Regulation Services Cultural ServicesChapter 2: Ecological Urbanism in Yoruba Cities – An Ecosystem Services Survey Eco-cultural Green Spaces: Osun Grove UNESCO Site, Osogbo Oranmiyan Grove, Ile-Ife Oduduwa Grove, Ile-Ife Oramfe Grove, Ile-Ife OlumirinWater Fall, Erin-Ijesa Ikogosi Warm Spring, Ikogosi Olumo Rocks, Abeokuta English Parks, Gardens and Memorials: Agodi Gardens, Ibadan Trans Amusement Wonderland Park, Ibadan Freedom Park, Osogbo Fajuyi Park, Ado-Ekiti Biological Gardens, Akure Fasoranti Park, Akure Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Park, Abeokuta Golf Course, Saki Lekki Conservation Center, Lagos Ndubisi Kanu Park, Lagos Muri Okunola Park, Lagos Abiola Gardens, Lagos Institutional Parks and Gardens: University of Ibadan Botanical Gardens University of Ilorin Parks Obafemi Awolowo University Botanical Gardens Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta Botanical GardensChapter 3: Ecosystem Services of Yoruba Home Greens – IndigenousKnowledge System for Wellbeing Provisioning Services Supporting Services Regulation Services Cultural ServicesChapter 4: Between Profanity and Sacredness – Global North and South Divide Biophilic Rationalism Spirit Ontologies and MysticismChapter 5: Conclusion: Evidence-based Design of Eco-cultural Cities

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the access to water in the building and its surroundings, to infer the mutual interaction and the complex interconnection of green/blue infrastructures. This book is a tool for understanding the multifunctional functionality of urban waste water to recognize their efficient and strategically useful potential in the form of aesthetic and functional architectural elements—vertical gardens, waterproof roof systems, rain gardens, retention rainwater recirculation tanks, biomarkers for wastewater treatment, and other progressive technologies and technical solutions. The originality of the proposed book and the innovation of the proposed objectives lies in the complexity and interdisciplinary of the problem solved, with clear continuity and utilization in professional building, environmental, and psychosocial practice. Understanding the quality of life as a category influenced by several objective and subjective conditions, this manuscript draws up recommendations on how to build “green buildings”—progressively supplied with water, connecting infrastructures—from existing buildings (administrative or training).Table of ContentsState of Art, Definition of New Concepts of Sponge City and Blue Green Infrastructures.- Sustainable Water Management and Hybrid Infrastructures.- Analysis of Climatic Parameters in Urban Area.- Measuring Selected Physical Parameters of Hybrid Infrastructure.- Subjective Indoor Environmental Quality in Green Office Buildings.

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Book Synopsis'City Riffs' traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism; formal and informal growth in Kumasi and Caracas, post-colonial structures in New Delhi and Prague, post-urban phenomena in Detroit and Brussels; cultural transitions in Antwerp and Salzburg; the changing nature of place in Seoul and Mostar; and new ecological realities in New York and Rome. Urbanism is viewed as the production of space-integrating aspects of design, ecology, and engineering, as well as other influences on urban cognition such as social, economical, and psychological interactions. As it covers a wide range of places and methods, this book will be an asset to anyone who works on, lives in, or thinks about cities. AUTHOR: Richard Plunz is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Earth Institute's Urban Design Lab at Columbia University, where he has also chaired the Division of Architecture and directed the Urban Design Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. SELLING POINTS: . Interlinks various disciplines of urbanism 30 illustrations

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Book SynopsisIn short, following Marshall McLuhan’s famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the medium of research. This involves retreating from research contents—the topics, themes, questions, hypotheses, insights, ideas, concepts, and thoughts—for the moment to consider the materials, methods, tools, techniques, and approaches that support them. This change in perspective reveals a rich array of research approaches that include: the visual documentationof complex stakeholder interests, political and economic circumstances in built form and design vision; two-and three-dimensional mapping of vegetation, temperature and humidity, in conjunction with point cloudterrestrial and airborne laser-scanning technology; gathering data from sensors and geospatial data; emergence of “solution spaces”and multi-dimensional complexity science; subject oriented approaches to behavioural and cognitive decision making in city navigation; and approaches to emergent phenomena such as extended urbanisation that are not always visible to existing analytical or documentary lenses.

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Book SynopsisThis book reconsiders the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years, and the lessons that can be learned for the future of cities. Bringing together the contributions of leading scholars, representing diverse methodologies and academic disciplines, this book studies core questions about the functionality of cities and the goals that should be promoted via zoning and planning. It considers the increasing pace of urbanization and growth of mega cities in both developed and developing countries; changing concepts on the role of mixed-use and density zoning; new policies on inclusionary zoning as a way to facilitate urban justice and social mobility; and the effects of current macrophenomena, such as mass immigration and globalization, on the changing landscape of cities. The book’s twelve chapters are divided into four parts, each addressing different aspects of zoning and planning by combining theoretical analysis with a close observation of diverse case studies from North America and Europe to the Middle East and developing economies. Part I offers a critical analysis of the conventional account of zoning as a top-down form of land-use regulation starting with the 1916 NYC code. Part II studies how contemporary concepts of zoning, both substantive and procedural, impact the built environment across today’s cities. Part III revisits the economic foundations of zoning and urban policy in the context of domestic markets, as compared with the regulatory and market effects of interstate agreements on cross-border real estate investments. Part IV analyzes the dominant, yet often implicit social and political motives that are driving zoning policies across different countries. This volume’s focus on the ties between zoning policy and economics, politics, socioeconomic conditions, and the local-to-global scope of governance will appeal to scholars and students of political science, economics, law, planning, sustainability, geography, sociology, and architecture, as well as policy-makers and practitioners, especially those in developing countries and transitional and emerging economies.Table of ContentsChapter 1: History of US Zoning in Comparative Perspective.- Chapter 2: North American Zoning: Real Estate Regulation, Past and Present.- Chapter 3: Market Externalities and the Evolution of Zoning.- Chapter 4: Beyond Zoning: Making A Place for Community Well-Being.- Chapter 5: Poor Zoning: The World Bank and Urban Planning Reform in India.- Chapter 6: Community Benefits Agreements: Flexibility and Accountability in the Land-Use Regulation Matrix.- Chapter 7: Zoning After the Berlin Wall: A Place-Based Policy Evaluation.- Chapter 8: Why Did Regional Income Convergence in the US End: The Role of Zoning.- Chapter 9: TTIP and CETA - Frivolous Claims to Democratic Legitimacy of Urban Development and Bona Fide Land Policies.- Chapter 10: Social Topographies- Rethinking Zoning Strategies.- Chapter 11: Checks and Balances in Planning Decentralization: Lessons from the Ontario Planning System.- Chapter 12:Revitalizing Land Use Law.

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Book SynopsisAmsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong’s country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas. In some cases, cities have even developed – and in some cases are promoting – a distinct ‘forest identity’. This book introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial.Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal. For with city forests playing an increasingly important role in local government sustainability programs, it provides an important reference for those involved in urban planning and decision making, public affairs and administration, and even public health. From providers of livelihoods to healthy recreational environments, and from places of inspiration and learning to a source of conflict, the book presents examples of city forests from around the world. These cases clearly illustrate how the social and cultural development of towns and forests has often gone hand in hand. They also reveal how better understanding of city forests as distinct cultural and social phenomena can help to strengthen synergies both between cities and forests, and between urban society and nature.Table of ContentsPreface 1) Introduction · Culture, landscape and forest · The urban era · Cities and trees · Cities and forests · City forests as cultural landscapes, Place and Space · The city forest defined · Contents of this book 2) The Spiritual Forest · Ancient spiritual links between forests and people · Forest and religion · Forest and myths · Modern spirituality · (Re)Creating spiritual links 3) The Forest of Fear · Primeval forest fear · Criminal forests · Nature’s dangers · From fear to excitement and adventure 4) The Fruitful Forest · Subsistence forests · Appropriation of city forest use · City forests and societal development · The rise of municipal forest · The Fruitful Forest today 5) The Forest of Power · From wooded commons to elitist prestige · Military forests · City forests and democratisation · City forests and city image · City forests and environmental justice · City forest governance 6) The Great Escape · An antidote to the city · Recreate and enjoy · Window to the world · New ways of escaping · Different people, different escapes · Escape from city rule 7) A Work of Art · City forests as source of inspiration · Designed landscapes · Settings for art · Art, forests and community 8) The Wild Side of Town · City forests and nature conservation · Nature is in the eye of the beholder · The quest for urban wilderness · Working with nature · Native versus alien 9) The Healthy Forest · Views on nature and health · City forests and physical health · City forests and mental health and wellbeing · The Healthy Forest in practice 10) The Forest of Learning · City forests as testing grounds · International inspiration · Demonstrating forestry to the public · Forests and landscape laboratories 11) The Youthful Forest · Children and nature · Forests as settings for play and adventure · Forests as nearby nature · Forests for children’s education 12) The Social Forest · From wooded commons to forests for all · Social forests for mass use · City forests as social stages · City forests and place making · Building social cohesion and community identity 13) A Forest of Diversity · Diversity in city forests over time · Changing fashions · A growing diversity in forest users and preferences · Managing for diversity 14) A Forest of Conflict · Urban development conflicts · Conflicts over forest management · Recreational conflicts · A range of opinions and interests · Managing conflicts and creating new opportunities 15) A Forest for the Future · City forests in the Anthropocene · City forests as part of green infrastructure and urban landscapes · City forests and our place in nature · Governance, design and management · Final thoughts Literature Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter authors argue, each in their own way, how urban design can produce an answer to these questions. Furthermore, detailed insights are given into how current designers, architects, urbanists and landscape architects deal with the contemporary urban problems of our time: climate change, migration, resiliency, politics, environmental change This book includes chapters from leading thinkers in urban design, city development and landscape urbanism fields. The authors have included the most recent insights in urbanism ensuring that this book provides a state-of-the -art text which is both actual and timely. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1. Growth of Sydney Metropolitan Region Over Time and Current Urban Design Practices.- 2. The City as an Economic Driver.- 3. 20 Years of Spatial Growth and Planning in Sydney.- 4. The Role of Qualitative Public Spaces.- 5. The Need for Developing Sustainability in Urbanism.- 6. The Concept of the Resilient City.- 7. The Design of the Sydney Green Grid.- 8. Landscapes and a Driver for Urban Design.- 9. The Role of Mobility in Current and Future Cities.- 10. The Relationship between Urbanism and Politics.- 11. How Local Economics Play a Role in Community Driven Urban Design.- 12. Sustainable Urban Projects and Urban Architecture.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisVerkehrsprobleme werden immer weniger handhabbar, die Verkehrsplanung ist eine Wissenschaft in der Krise. Der massive Straßenbau der sechziger und siebziger Jahre hat die Probleme ebensowenig lösen können wie die Verkehrsberuhigung der Achtziger. In den Neunzigern scheinen Stadt und Land endgültig handlungsunfähig, da die vormals reichlich geflossenen Gelder ausgegangen bzw. ausgegeben sind. Jetzt kann man nicht einmal mehr so tun, als ob man Sinnvolles täte. Immer mehr Menschen fahren Auto. Städte und Landschaften verstopfen, die Umweltbelastungen aus Verkehr nehmen bedrohliche Züge an. In dieser Krise, in der klar und konsequent nach Lösungen gesucht werden müßte, haben Verkehrsplaner ihre Orientierung verloren. Sie resignieren, verstecken ihr Nicht-mehr-weiter-wissen hinter arrogantem Expertengehabe oder flüchten in technische Spielereien. Die Fachwelt ist derart verwirrt, daß sie kaum einen verständlichen Überblick über das Geschehen geben kann. So können sich erst recht Lernende, betroffene Bürger, Journalisten, Politiker oder Planer anderer Fachrichtungen kein Urteil mehr bilden. Die Grundlagen der Verkehrsplanung sind jedoch einfach und klar. "Stadt, Straße und Verkehr" untersucht und erörtert die grundlegenden Zusammenhänge in Text, Skizzen und Überschlagsberechnungen - fachlich kompetent, anschaulich und einleuchtend. Auf der Grundlage des sorgfältig aufbereiteten Materials können Architekten, Planer und Verkehrsplaner eigene Planungen beurteilen bzw. überarbeiten. Ein Handbuch! (...) Füsser erläutert alle verkehrsplanerischen Maßnahmen - auch für Nicht-Fachleute - in klarer und verständlicher Weise.(...) (...) anschaulich und klar insbesondere für Kommunalpolitiker in Planungs- und Verkehrsausschüssen aufschlußreich. (...) Das Parlament Ausgabe Nr. 43, S.19 vpm 17.10.97 Rezension erschienen in ekz-Bibl. Bereich 1998 (...) interessante Details und verständlich geschrieben (...)Table of ContentsDen roten Faden in der Verkehrsplanung finden - Die Entwicklung: Die Geschichte von Städtebau und Verkehr - Lösungsansätze: Erklärungsmodelle und Zukunftsvisionen - Verkehrsmittel: Wieviel Platz braucht Verkehr, wieviel Verkehr vertragen wir? - Verkehr und Nutzung: Wie entsteht Verkehr und wie können wir ihn bewältigen? - Verkehrsverhalten: Warum wir so viel und so schnell unterwegs sind und wie wir das ändern können - Verkehrsplanung: Das Handwerkszeug der Verkehrsplaner - Resümee

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Book SynopsisDas Buch bietet eine grundlegende Einführung in den Städtebau mit einem perspektivenreichen Überblick über die gestalterischen, rechtlichen, sozialen, ökologischen und anderen Aspekte der Stadtplanung. Im ersten Teil des Buches wird zunächst Basiswissen geliefert. Im zweiten Teil des Buches wird das Konzept für eine Stadtplanung entwickelt, von der Ermittlung der Bevölkerungsgrundlagen für die Stadtentwicklungsplanung über städtebauliche Planungen für Wohn-, Gewerbe- und andere Gebiete bis hin zur Planung einzelner Infrastruktureinrichtungen wie Läden, Schulen, Freizeitflächen oder Verkehrsanlagen.Table of ContentsInhaltsübersicht.- Allgemeiner Teil.- 1. Grundbegriffe und rechtliche Grundlagen.- 1.1 Der Aufbau der Planung.- 1.1.1 Raumordnung, Landes- und Regionalplanung.- 1.1.2 Stadtplanung.- 1.1.3 Stadtentwicklungsplanung.- 1.1.4 Städtebauliche Planungen.- 1.2 Die Bauleitplanung.- 1.2.1 Plandarstellung.- 1.2.2 Planaufstellung.- 1.2.3 Planausführung, Sonstiges.- 2. Die Auflösung der Stadt in der Moderne.- 2.1 Das städtebauliche Leitbild des 20. Jahrhunderts.- 2.1.1 Die Charta von Athen.- 2.1.2 Die Auflösung der Stadtgrenzen.- 2.1.3 Die Entmischung der Nutzungen.- 2.1.4 Die Auflösung der Räume.- 2.1.5 Die Freistellung der Baukörper.- 2.1.6 Exkurs: Parallelen zwischen Hochbau und Städtebau.- 2.2 Ein Spiegel der modernen Gesellschaft.- 2.2.1 Die Auswirkungen der Charta von Athen.- 2.2.2 Die Individualisierung der Gesellschaft.- 2.2.3 Der Pluralismus der Gesellschaft.- 2.2.4 Die Zunahme der Mobilität.- 2.2.5 Die Globalisierung der Gesellschaft.- 3. Soziale Folgen.- 3.1 Der Verlust der Urbanität.- 3.1.1 Allgemeines.- 3.1.2 Urbane Dichte.- 3.1.3 Urbane Nutzungsmischung.- 3.1.4 Urbane Räume.- 3.2 Die Wiederentdeckung der historischen Städte.- 3.2.1 Allgemeines.- 3.2.2 Umgang mit vorhandenen Baugebieten.- 3.2.3 Umgang mit vorhandenen Räumen.- 3.2.4 Umgang mit vorhandenen Gebäuden.- 4. Ökologische Folgen.- 4.1 Natur- und Landschaftsverbrauch.- 4.1.1 Allgemeines.- 4.1.2 Erhaltung und Wiederherstellung der Natur.- 4.1.3 Nachhaltiger Naturverbrauch.- 4.2 Energieverbrauch.- 4.2.1 Allgemeines.- 4.2.2 Nachhaltigkeit im Bauwesen.- 4.2.3 Nachhaltige Energieumwandlung.- 4.2.4 Nachhaltigkeit im Verkehr.- 4.3 Wasser- und Rohstoffverbrauch.- 4.3.1 Nachhaltiger Wasserverbrauch.- 4.3.2 Nachhaltiger Gewässerschutz.- 4.3.3 Nachhaltiger Rohstoffverbrauch.- 4.3.4 Umweltverträgliche Abfallbeseitigung.- 4.4 Emissionen.- 4.4.1 Allgemeines.- 4.4.2 Nachhaltige Luftreinhaltung.- 4.4.3 Lärmschutz.- Besonderer Teil.- 5. Wohnbauflächen.- 5.1 Allgemeines.- 5.1.1 Wohnbevölkerung.- 5.1.2 Wohnbedarfsermittlung.- 5.1.3 Differenzierung des Wohnbedarfs.- 5.2 Einfamilienhäuser.- 5.2.1 Aufgelockerte Bauweisen.- 5.2.2 Reihenhäuser.- 5.2.3 Atriumhäuser.- 5.3 Mehrfamilienhäuser.- 5.3.1 Vertikale Baustrukturen.- 5.3.2 Terrassierte Baustrukturen.- 5.3.3 Stadthäuser.- 6 Sonstige Bauflächen und Freiflächen.- 6.1 Störende Gewerbebetriebe.- 6.1.1 Allgemeines.- 6.1.2 Industrie und Handwerk.- 6.1.3 Differenzierung des Gewerbeflächenbedarfs.- 6.2 Nichtstörende Gewerbebetriebe.- 6.2.1 Handel, Allgemeines.- 6.2.2 Differenzierung des Ladenbedarfs.- 6.2.3 Dienstleistungen.- 6.3 Nichtgewerbliche Einrichtungen.- 6.3.1 Einrichtungen im Nahbereich.- 6.3.2 Einrichtungen im Stadtviertel.- 6.3.3 Einrichtungen im Stadtteil.- 6.3.4 Gesamtstädtische Einrichtungen.- 6.4 Öffentliche Grünflächen.- 6.4.1 Spielplätze.- 6.4.2 Sportanlagen.- 6.4.3 Sonstige Grünanlagen.- 6.4.4 Zusammenfassung.- 7 Verkehrsflächen.- 7.1 Straßennetze.- 7.1.1 Allgemeines.- 7.1.2 Gesamtstädtische Straßennetze.- 7.1.3 Erschließung der Environments.- 7.1.4 Erschließung der Nachbarschaften.- 7.2 Straßen — 1. Elemente.- 7.2.1 Fahrbahnen.- 7.2.2 Knotenpunkte, Wendeanlagen.- 7.2.3 Verkehrsberuhigung.- 7.2.4 Fußgänger- und Radverkehrsflächen, Sonstiges.- 7.3 Straßen — 2. Typen.- 7.3.1 Verbindungsstraßen.- 7.3.2 Erschließungsstraßen.- 7.3.3 Aufenthaltsbereiche.- 7.4 Sonstige Verkehrsanlagen.- 7.4.1 Ruhender Verkehr, Allgemeines.- 7.4.2 Parkflächen und Stellflächen.- 7.4.3 Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr.- Literaturauswahl.- Erklärung häufig benutzter Abkürzungen.

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Book SynopsisDie Beiträge dieses Bandes thematisieren Auswirkungen neuer Steuerungs- und Verwertungslogiken, die sich unter dem Begriff der „unternehmerischen Stadt“ zusammenfassen lassen. Soziale Arbeit, die vorwiegend quartierbezogen agiert, sieht sich dabei einer zunehmenden Fragmentierung der Stadt gegenüber und ist mit der Verdrängung sozial schwächerer Gruppen konfrontiert. Stadtentwicklungspolitik agiert dabei stützend und steuernd zugleich: Standortmarketing stärkt die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Programme der Quartiersentwicklung wirken dem Auseinanderfallen der Stadt entgegen. Die Autoren und Autorinnen diskutieren aktuelle Programmatiken, thematisieren die Bereiche Selbsthilfe, soziale Bewegungen und Sozialpolitik und setzen sich mit der Rolle von Wahrnehmungen und Imaginationen in der Stadtforschung auseinander.Table of ContentsZum Kontext der unternehmerischen Stadt.- Kritik aktueller Programmatiken.- Neue Strategien und Methoden.

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Book SynopsisWolfgang Schlicht stellt das Forschungsgebiet Urban Health, im Deutschen auch StadtGesundheit, vor, in dem er zu Beginn einen kurzen Abriss zur Geschichte der Stadt, zu Leitbildern der Stadtgestaltung und zu Urban Health gibt. Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse zu Stadtmerkmalen, die Gesundheit beeinträchtigen (reaktions-orientierte Perspektive), und zu solchen, die Gesundheit fördern (promotions-orientierte Perspektive), werden referiert. Theoretische Konzepte und methodische Überlegungen zur Erkenntnisgewinnung runden das essential ab. Table of ContentsStadt, Urbanisierung – Planungsleitbilder.- Public Health – Urban Health.- Stadtgestalt und Gesundheit – ausgewählte Fakten.- Forschungsdesigns.

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Book SynopsisDie Klimafrage gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung. Die weltweiten CO2-Emmisionen entwickeln sich dabei ständig nach oben. Das Land Hessen hat in diesem Kontext als eine politische Einheit auf mittlerer Ebene einen wichtigen Schritt getan, der eine große Hebelwirkung zu entfalten beginnt. Hessen hat als erstes deutsches Bundesland erklärt, die eigene Verwaltung bis 2030 klimaneutral stellen zu wollen. Das hessische Klimaneutralitäts-Projekt ist eingebettet in die übergreifende Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie des Landes und innerhalb dieser Strategie ein Projekt von herausragender Bedeutung.​Table of ContentsKlima als globale Herausforderung/Klimaneutralität als strategischer Ansatz - CO2-Neutralität als Strategie des Landes Hessen - Projektaktivitäten in Hessen - Klimaneutralitätsaktivitäten der Netzwerkpartner des Projekts​.

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Book SynopsisDie Energiewende ist inzwischen Gegenstand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachdisziplinen geworden. Häufig konzentriert sich die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung auf einen speziellen Themenkomplex. Im vorliegenden Sammelband werden erstmals originär politikwissenschaftliche Beiträge gebündelt. Das Themenspektrum reicht von Energiearmut bis zu Energiewende-Governance: Lokale Konflikte, politische Partizipation und soziales Engagement sowie regionale Strategien werden umfassend dargestellt. Daneben werden Energiepolitiken anderer Länder analysiert sowie eine theoretische Einordnung der Energietransformation vorgenommen. Der Band bietet damit einen ersten Einstieg in die Welt der Energiewende aus politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive.Trade Review“... Er bietet eine Übersicht des aktuellen Forschungsstands zur Energiewende und zeichnet die sich im Zuge der Transformation ergebenden gesellschaftlichen Konfliktlinien nach. ... Von seiner starken Seite zeigt sich dieser Sammelband in empirisch fundierten Einzelkapiteln, die mit überraschenden und theoretisch gut abgesicherten Ergebnissen aufwarten. Gerade zur Thematik Partizipation/Akzeptanz bietet der Band eine Reihe sehr wertvoller Beiträge ...” (Sebastian Strunz, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift PVS, Jg. 61, 2020) “... Zusammenfassend lässt sich festhalten, dass es den Herausgebern gelingt, sowohl durch ihre breite Definition von Populismus als auch durch die Vielfalt der Beiträge zu zeigen, dass es sich beim Energiewende-Populismus um ein internationales und vielgestaltiges Phänomen handelt ... handelt es sich um einen überaus lesenswerten Sammelband, der eine hervorragende Orientierung in diesem heterogenen und konfliktreichen Politikfeld bietet.” (Martin Repohl, in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, pw-portal.de, 21. Januar 2020) “... Hervorzuheben sind insbesondere ... Beiträge, da diese das Potenzial einer dezidiert politikwissenschaftlichen Perspektive verdeutlichen ... Die Stärke des Bandes liegt vor allem in seiner thematischen Heterogenität bei einer gleichzeitig thematisch anschlussfähigen Selbstverortung im Bereich der Policy- und Governanceforschung. Durch die Herausarbeitung von Bezügen zur Partizipations- und Legitimationsforschung eignet sich der Band hervorragend als Einführung in die politikwissenschaftliche Energiewendeforschung.” (Martin Repohl, in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, pw-portal.de, 17. April 2019)Table of ContentsPolitikwissenschaftliche Energiewende-Forschung: Grundlagen, Überblick und Rahmung.- Energiewende-Politik im europäischen Mehrebenensystem.- Legitimation, Partizipation und Akzeptanz.- Diskurse, Konflikte und soziale Ungleichheit.

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Book SynopsisFelix Nolte ist es gelungen, anhand von echten Kaufpreisen der Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BlmA) die Entwicklungskosten großer Konversionsflächen zu Wohn- und Gewerbeflächen wissenschaftlich zu analysieren und seine Ergebnisse in diesem Buch zu veröffentlichen. Erstmals können alle Kosten und Fallstricke der Projektentwicklung militärischer Brachflächen dargestellt werden. Das Grundlagenwerk zur Konversion gibt Handlungsempfehlungen für Kommunen und Projektentwickler und Hinweise zu Kaufpreisen und Entwicklungskosten. Die Arbeit bietet neben den Empfehlungen zu Projektentwicklung und der deduktiven Verkehrswertermittlung auch Erläuterungen zum Planungsrecht sowie zu den Dealbreakern der Brachflächenentwicklung. Table of ContentsGrundlagen der Konversion in Deutschland: Kasernen und Flugplätze, Erstzugriff und Verbilligung durch die BImA.- Bestandsaufnahme und Grundstücksentwicklung.- Stadtplanerische Steuerung der Konversion.- Wertermittlung von Konversionsflächen.- Analyse der Verkäufe der BImA 2010 bis 2016 zur Ermittlung von Kostenansätzen für die Flächenentwicklung.- Experteninterviews.

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Book SynopsisAuch im Ruhrgebiet verstärkt sich der Eindruck, Politik, Gesellschaft und Medien hätten sich voneinander entfremdet. Wie gestaltet sich aber die Gesprächsgrundlage politischer Öffentlichkeit im Ruhrgebiet? Das vorliegende essential widmet sich dieser Frage und zeigt, dass die Unzufriedenheit mit Politikern tatsächlich hoch ist, zugleich der Zusammenhalt von lokalen Politikern und Bürgern, der lange als charakteristisch für die Region galt, als stark wahrgenommen wird. Ist die lokale Ebene daher tatsächlich der Ort, an dem die Gesellschaft wieder ins Gespräch kommen kann?Table of ContentsAnalyse der Einstellungen zu Politik und Medien im Ruhrgebiet.- Ideen zur Überwindung der Gesprächsstörung zwischen Bürgern, Politikern und Journalisten.

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Book SynopsisFür eine erfolgreiche Durchführung von Einzelhandelsprojekten stellen die gute Erreichbarkeit sowie die verkehrliche Verträglichkeit zentrale Voraussetzungen dar. Eine umfassende Untersuchung dieser Anforderungen im Rahmen fundierter Verkehrsgutachten entscheidet somit darüber, ob ein Verkehrskonzept dauerhaft tragfähig und wirtschaftlich ist. Dieses Buch liefert einen praxisorientierten und umfassenden Überblick über die einzelnen Arbeitsschritte bei der verkehrlichen Erschließung von Einzelhandelsstandorten. Hierbei wird u.a. für die einzelnen Planungsphasen auf entsprechende zentrale Richtlinien sowie auf Erfahrungen aus der Planungspraxis verwiesen. Es handelt sich um ein übersichtliches Nachschlagewerk für Stadt- und Verkehrsplaner, Architekten sowie alle Akteure, die in die Standortsuche sowie die verkehrliche Erschließung von Einzelhandelsvorhaben eingebunden sind.Table of ContentsEinzelhandel im Wandel – Herausforderungen und Standortanforderungen,- Standortanalyse.- Bestimmung des Verkehrsaufkommens.- Verträglichkeitsprüfung.- Hinweise für die Bemessung und Gestaltung von Außenanlagen.- Literatur.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook on the Green City examines urban nature as an ideal, provider of services and conceptual urban design approach. It answers important contemporary questions that arise about the ecological and cultural interactions, development and structure, and ecological performance of urban nature worldwide. The book explains what urban nature is, how it came to be, and how it evolved in the context of the natural and cultural conditions of its sites. It also describes what constitutes urban biodiversity and the role of differentiated urban nature in the Green City concept. Theories of urban development and ecology are linked to practical applications of urban planning and illustrated with many case studies and examples. The great potentials of urban nature are shown in detail. In order to cope with or mitigate problems in the city, a targeted urban nature management adapted to the specific conditions of the different types of urban nature is needed, which includes nature conservation as well as nature design, always keeping in mind the relation to the urban dwellers. The textbook is especially addressed to students and teachers of urban planning, ecology, geography, social sciences as well as practitioners of urban design and nature conservation. This book is a translation of the original German 1st edition Die Grüne Stadt by Jürgen Breuste, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done by the author primarily in terms of content and scientific terms, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation but without loss of messages. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.Table of Contents1 What urban nature is.- 2 How urban nature came into being.- 3 How urban nature exists in the context of nature and culture.- 4 What urban nature accomplishes.- 5 What urban nature accomplishes.- 6 What constitutes urban biodiversity.- 7 What urban nature constitutes in the Green City concept.- What are the paths to a Green City.

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Book SynopsisIn einer fächerübergreifenden Zusammenschau führt das dreibändige Werk in die Grundfragen und -themen der Stadtplanung ein, wobei die praktischen Problemstellungen der städtebaulichen Entwicklung im Vordergrund stehen. Band I behandelt die grundlegenden planungsrelevanten Definitionen und erörtert die komplexe Kausalkette von Ursachen und Faktoren, die zum Bedarf an Stadtplanung führen. Band II gibt eine Übersicht über Leitgedanken, Systeme und Strukturen der Stadtplanung; die Methoden, Instrumente und der Vollzug der Stadtplanung stehen im Mittelpunkt von Band III. Für die Kooperation auf den unterschiedlichen Planungsebenen, die durch die rasante Stadtentwicklung heute notwendig ist, liefert der Autor ein unverzichtbares Grundlagenwerk.Table of Contents1. Einleitung.- 2. Raumordnung, Landes- und Regionalplanung.- 2.1 Räumliche Planung im staatlichen System.- 2.1.1 Begriffsdefinitionen, Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 2.1.2 Leitgedanken.- 2.1.3 Das Spannungsfeld zwischen örtlicher und überörtlicher Planung — das Gegenstromprinzip.- 2.2 Bundesraumordnung.- 2.2.1 Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 2.2.2 Bundesraumordnungsgesetz.- 2.2.3 Leitgedanken.- 2.2.4 Bundesraumordnungsprogramur (BROP).- 2.2.5 Raumordnungspolitischer Orientierungsrahmen.- 2.2.6 Bundesraumordnungsbericht.- 2.2.7 Fachplanungen und andere Einwirkungsmöglichkeiten des Bundes.- 2.3 Landesplanung.- 2.3.1 Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 2.3.2 Landesplanungsgesetze.- 2.3.3 Leitgedanken.- 2.3.4 Landesraumordnungsprogramme und -pläne.- 2.3.5 Parlament als Entscheidungsträger.- 2.3.6 Fachplanungen der Länder.- 2.4 Regionalplanung.- 2.4.1 Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 2.4.2 Regionalplanungsgesetze.- 2.4.3 Leitgedanken.- 2.4.4 Regionale Raumordnungspläne/-programme der Länder.- 2.4.5 Regionale Raumordnungspläne/-programme kommunaler Verbände.- 2.4.6 Gemeinsame Ziele und Festlegungen.- 2.5 Folgerungen für die Stadtplanung.- 3. Stadtentwicklungsplanung.- 3.1 Begriffsdefinition, Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 3.2 Allgemeine Leitgedanken zur Stadtentwicklung.- 3.2.1 Vielfalt und Gleichwertigkeit statt Gleichartigkeit der Lebensverhältnisse.- 3.2.2 Flexible Ordnung.- 3.2.3 Alternativen auf verschiedenen Ebenen.- 3.3 Sektorale Leitgedanken zur Stadtentwicklung.- 3.3.1 Wirtschaft.- 3.3.2 Soziale Aspekte.- 3.3.3 Gesundheit und Umweltschutz.- 3.3.4 Wohnen.- 3.3.5 Freizeit und Kultur.- 3.3.6 Verkehr.- 3.3.7 Ver- und Entsorgung.- 3.4 Leitgedanken zur räumlichen Stadtentwicklung.- 3.4.1 Räumliche Ordnungssysteme und -strukturen.- 3.4.2 Stadterweiterung und Stadtverkleinerung.- 3.4.3 Stadtveränderung.- 3.4.4 Stadterneuerung.- 3.5 Räumliche Entwicklungssysteme.- 3.5.1 Leitgedanken.- 3.5.2 Die wesentlichen Modellsysteme.- 3.5.3 Überlagerung verschiedener Systeme.- 3.6 Entwicklungsplanung für Stadtteile.- 3.6.1 Planung auf Stadtteilebene.- 3.6.2 Rahmen-, Programm- oder Strukturplan.- 3.6.3 Handlungsprogramm.- 4. Bauleitplanung.- 4.1 System, Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 4.1.1 Die Bauleitplanung innerhalb des Baugesetzbuchs.- 4.1.2 Planungsleitlinien des Baugesetzbuchs.- 4.1.3 Bestimmung von Art und Maß der Nutzung.- 4.1.4 Bestimmung der Wirtschaftlichkeit der Bauleitplanung und ihre Grenzen.- 4.2 Der vorbereitende Bauleitplan (Flächennutzungsplan).- 4.2.1 Aufgaben, Funktionen und Ziele.- 4.2.2 Charakteristik des Flächennutzungsplans.- 4.2.3 Inhalte des Flächennutzungsplanes.- 4.2.4 Spielräume für die Bebauungsplanung und Schwellenwerte.- 4.3 Der verbindliche Bauleitplan (Bebauungsplan).- 4.3.1 Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 4.3.2 Arten der Bebauungspläne.- 4.3.3 Mittel und Arten der Festsetzung im Bebauungsplan.- 4.3.4 Inhalte des Bebauungsplans.- 4.3.5 Erläuterungen zu besonderen Festsetzungen im Bebauungsplan.- 4.3.6 Besondere Anmerkungen.- 5. Fachplanungen.- 5.1 Ziele und Aufgaben von Fachplanungen.- 5.2 Landschafts- und Freiflächenplanung.- 5.2.1 Ziele und Aufgaben.- 5.2.2 Leitgedanken.- 5.2.3 Landschafts- und Grünordnungspläne.- 5.2.4 Rechtliche Stellung von Landschafts- und Grünordnungsplänen.- 5.3 Verkehrsplanung.- 5.3.1 Ziele und Aufgaben.- 5.3.2 Leitgedanken.- 5.3.3 Verkehrserschließungsplanung.- 5.4 Infrastrukturplanung.- 5.4.1 Aufgaben und Funktionen.- 5.4.2 Soziale Infrastruktur.- 5.4.3 Technische Infrastruktur.- 5.5. Umweltplanung.- 5.5.1 Leitgedanken.- 5.5.2 Ziele.- 5.5.3 Rechtsgrundlagen.- 5.5.4 Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung.- 5.5.4.1 Ziele.- 5.5.4.2 Einsatzbereiche.- 6. Schlußbemerkung.- Stichwortverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisThe report on Statistical Indicators of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization provides an analysis of global progress towards inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the frame of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report is primarily based on the six SDG 9 indicators related to industrialization, for which UNIDO is designated as a custodian agency, showing the patterns of the recent changes in different country groups

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Book SynopsisThe Smart Sustainability Profile of Tbilisi presents the outcome of the evaluation of the city against the Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities. It proposes actions for the city to make progress toward achieving the SDGs. The City Profile will guide Grodno in developing, reviewing and implementing urban policies, programmes, and projects, and in building partnerships with other stakeholders with a view to reinforcing the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and SDG11 at the city level

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Book SynopsisThe guidance aims to assist Parties in more effectively mitigating the effects of possible industrial accidents and the consequences on human health, the environment and cultural heritage within countries and across borders. The general guidance (Part A) does this by sharing examples and pointing to good practices of countries' efforts in the UNECE region to integrate industrial safety considerations into environmental assessment and land-use planning processes. It also highlights the important interlinkages, synergies and complementarities between these and other instruments, including the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention), aiming to assist competent authorities and practitioners in applying the provisions. This is supplemented by the technical guidance (Part B), which focuses on the risk aspects.

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Book SynopsisFor many decades, cities in the Asia Pacific region have followed unsustainable patterns of transport development: worsening congestion and traffic safety, deteriorating air quality, high consumption of fossil fuels, and rising greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, many city governments are now developing sustainable transport strategies to target these issues and promote more sustainable modes, such as public transport and non-motorized transport. To date, however, their efforts to design effective strategies have been thwarted by their limited capacity to collect and analyze data. The Sustainable Urban Transport Index (SUTI) was developed by ESCAP to address this gap. The SUTI is a tool that summarizes, tracks and compares the performance of cities in sustainable urban transport and related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SUTI is a composite index made up of ten indicators, each measuring different aspects of sustainable urban transport. In addition, the data which make up the SUTI can be collected by city officials at low cost and on a regular basis, thereby allowing them to continuously monitor their city's performance over time. The main aim of this report is to demonstrate how SUTI can be used by policymakers to monitor progress towards sustainable urban mobility, as well as to identify those policies which will move urban transport systems towards sustainability. It contains the results of SUTI assessments conducted in 24 cities of the Asia and Pacific region between 2017 and 2021

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment. Both are necessary conditions for low carbon living in the 21st century. This is a global challenge represented by the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and the IPCC’s Climate Change program and its focus on mitigation and adaptation. All nations must make significant contributions to this transformation. This book highlights the new knowledge and innovation that has emerged from research projects undertaken in the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living between 2012 and 2019 – an initiative of the Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science and Technology that is tasked with responding to the UN challenges. Four principal transition pathways were central to the CRC and provide the thematic structure to this volume. They focus on technology, buildings, precinct and city design, and human behaviour – and their interactions.Table of Contents1. Pathways to Low Carbon Living.- Part 1: Energy Transition2. Energy futures for Australia.- 3. Rooftop photovoltaics: distributed renewable energy and storage (or low cost PV changes everything).- 4. Community owned renewable energy: enabling the transition towards renewable energy?.- 5. Unlocking the benefits of vehicle electrification.- 6. Decarbonising household energy use: the smart meter revolution and beyond.- Part 2: Transition to Zero Carbon Buildings.- 7. Assessing embodied greenhouse gas emissions in the built environment.- 8. Transitioning to net zero energy homes: learnings from the CRC’s high performance housing Living Laboratories.- 9. Decarbonising commercial buildings.- 10. The trajectory to a net zero emission built environment: the role of policy and regulation.- Part 3: Regenerating Urban Precincts and Cities.- 11. Sustainable precincts: transforming Australian cities one neighbourhood at a time.- 12. Development of low carbon urban forms: concepts, tools and scenarios.- 13. Health and the compact city.- 14. Low carbon urban mobility.- 15. Integrated urban water systems.- 16. Energy benchmarking for efficient, lower carbon wastewater treatment operations in Australia.- 17. Toward low carbon urban metabolism: the impact of eliminating food waste.- 18. Urban heat island mitigation for overheating and local climate change.- 19. Performance of urban precincts: towards integrated assessment.- Part 4: Human Factors in Low Carbon Living.- 20. Consumer responses to rating tools and residential energy efficiency disclosure.- 21. The Low Carbon Readiness Index.- 22. A social psychological guide for transformation into low carbon living.- 23. Shifting domestic energy consumption through a holistic understanding of the home system of practice.- 24. Engaging home renovators: opportunities and challenges for low carbon living.- 25. Sharing advice online: lessons for fostering sustainable homes from online discussion.- 26. Engaging local communities.- Part 5: A Future Perspective.- 27. Visions scenarios and pathways for rapid decarbonisation of Australian cities by 2040.

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about how cities occupy space. We are not interested in architectural masterpieces, but the tools for reinventing city life. We try to provide a framework for the architecture and design of public space without aesthetic considerations. We identify several defining factors. First of all, history as the city today very much depends on how it was yesterday. The geographical location and the technology available at a point of time both play a constraining role in what can be done as well. Culture, in the form of social norms, laws and regulations, also restricts what is possible to do. On the other hand, culture is also important in guiding the ideas and aspirations that together inform what society wants the city to be. The city needs government intervention, or regulation, to ameliorate the problem posed by a tangle of externalities and public goods. We focus on two comparative case studies: the evolution of urban form in the US and how it stands in a sharp contrast with the evolution of urban form in Japan. We emphasise the difference in regulations between both jurisdictions. We study how differences in technological choices driven by culture (i.e. racial segregation), geography (i.e. the availability of land) and history (i.e. the mobility restrictions of the Tokugawa period) result in vast differences in mobility regarding the share of public transport, walking and cycling versus motorised private transport. American cities are constrained by rules that are much further from the neoliberal economic idea of free and competitive markets than the Japanese ones. Japanese planning promotes competition and through a granular, walkable city dotted with small shops, fosters variety in the availability of goods and services. We hypothesise how changing regulations could change the urban form to generate a greater variety of goods and to foster the access to those goods through a more equitable distribution of wealth. Critically, we point out that a desirably denser city must rely on public transport, and we also study how a less-dense city can be made to work with public transport. We conclude by claiming that changes in regulations are very unlikely to happen in the US, as it would require deep cultural changes to move from local to a more universal and less excluding public good provision, but they are both possible and desirable in other jurisdictions.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Why cities exist?- Cities are more important than ever.- Public goods, externalities and the city.- Governing for the public good: the problem of city governance and planning.- Growth and shape of the pre-industrial city.- The raise of the rail-based mechanical city.- Motorisation and the city: America leads the world.- The Japanese experience: the raise of the minimal car use megalopolis.- Following America, not Japan: car dependent emerging megacities.- Motorisation and de-motorisation in Europe.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure Development: Innovations and Advances (SIDIA 2020). The book addresses the issues of optimal resource allocation and utilization, construction cost minimization, budget optimization for infrastructure development in hilly terrain as well as plains, to ensure quality and safety with minimal environmental impact. The topics covered include planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructure projects, policy and practices to be considered for the comprehensive development which is socially inclusive specifically in developing nations, transportation engineering and management which is performance-based and emerging economical models for partnerships, environment engineering and management for ascertaining the best methods for environmental impacts assessment to capture the true indirect costs of a infrastructure project, geotechnical and water resource engineering using new developments, and utilizing the various technological impacts for ensuring disaster preparedness of any region. This book can prove to be useful for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in the latest advances and innovations in sustainable infrastructure development.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the wider context of global urbanization, and broadens readers’ understanding of urban planning, chiefly focusing on the interplay between grassroots movements, experts’ involvement, and sociotechnical questions. As the respective chapters of the book show, the various controversies surrounding the Mumbai Development Plan (MDP) have called into question the social and political effects of reshaping the city, the exclusion, and inequalities it has produced, but also the role it confers on the state and the market, and its impacts on the environment. After carefully describing these controversies, the book tackles the fundamental democratic question of who gets to define the future of a city. Given its scope, the book is of interest to researchers, students, and teachers of city planning, urban development, and urban studies, as well as policymakers.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Politics of Urban PlanningLuca Pattaroni, Amita Bhide, Christine Lutringer 2. Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034: Unfolding Controversies, Actors and ArenasTobias Baitsch, Richa Bhardwaj, Salome Houllier-Binder3. Mumbai’s Orphan Plan: How the EDDP 2014-2034 was conceived, crafted and abandonedMalini Krishnankutty 4. Politics of Land Use Regulations Tobias Baitsch, Amita Bhide 5. Politics of Categories Salome Houllier-Binder, Christine Lutringer 6. Politics of Participation in Urban Planning: the “democratic moment” of the Mumbai Development Plan 2014-2034Richa Bhardwaj, Luca Pattaroni 7. Metropolitan Nature: Environment and Planning in MumbaiShweta Wagh, Hussain Indorewala 8. Postscript: Planning for the Maximum City in the Era of Planetary UrbanizationAmita Bhide

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses a combination of topics dealing with the wide variety of urban planning, authored by well reputed scholars in India mastering disciplines such as architecture, urban design, transportation planning, public policy, urban planning, urban engineering and civil engineering. It focuses on contemporary problems in metro cities like New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, etc. This book also highlights critical aspects of urban developments while considering the aspects of mega infrastructure projects especially related to water, waste water treatment and environmental issues.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Creating a framework to exploring densities in the contemporary postindustrial city.- Chapter 2: Livelihoods, Mobility, and Housing: In Search of Missing Links in Indian Towns.- Chapter 3: The pattern of gentrification in a knowledge economy: The case of Bengaluru, India.- Chapter 4: Are new towns in developing nations designed for a sustainable living? Investigating the perception of the residents from Navi Mumbai, India.

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights various solutions for the required transition of coastal cities due to +1m sea level rise. The current understanding is that infrastructure, buildings, industry, and communities have to be protected by engineering-based solutions, or cities have to retreat. The book adds two more solutions where cities can advance onto the water or can accommodate. All four different concepts are introduced and presented in a manual and as urban design proposals for one specific site. Therefore, the book can be used in two ways: Either as a general guide for urban transition processes due to +1m sea level rise, or as demonstration project how differently sites can be developed further and created thereby additional opportunities.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Guideline The Test Run: 1. Analysis 2. Concepts and Tactics 3. Feed-back 4. Final Scenarios Results ​

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research. Consisting of three main parts, the first analyzes the interaction between land redevelopment and traffic congestion as well as the mechanisms and causes of traffic congestion. The second part presents strategies for the prevention and control of traffic congestion under urban land redevelopment, proposing a two-stage evaluation system of traffic congestion pre-inspection and traffic impact analysis in the planning and implementation stages of land redevelopment. Lastly, the third section includes an application case analysis of the proposed traffic congestion management strategy.Table of ContentsPreface.- Introduction.- The mechanism of traffic congestion under land redevelopment.- The traffic congestion control strategy framework for land redevelopment.- Traffic demand analysis model for land redevelopment.- Pre-inspection of traffic congestion during planning stage of land redevelopment.- The traffic impact analysis during implementation stage of land redevelopment.- The application of land redevelopment and traffic congestion control strategy.

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Book SynopsisThis book first provides a comprehensive guideline for future disaster-resistant city planning in large cities in disaster-prone countries such as Japan. It is a compilation of knowledge and know-how obtained through the author’s work in the national government for one and half years in the Earthquake Reconstruction Headquarters, right after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on 17 January 1995. The author has carefully examined the various ad hoc measures taken just after the earthquake, which were criticized because they did not work as well as expected. Additionally, he has examined the later revisions in disaster and risk management systems made at the levels of local and national governments through experience in the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, to which the author had long been committed. The author argues that the rescue activities, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans for disaster countermeasures implemented once a disaster has occurred and the city planning established in ordinary times should be extremely tightly connected with each other. City planning that subsumes rescue activities, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans against what ought to have happened would critically improve the capability of crisis management and, consequently, protect life and property once a disaster has occurred. Such city planning eventually creates disaster-resistant cities. This book assumes readers to be graduate students who study city planning. It is also beneficial for practitioners and policy makers who are in charge of the construction of disaster-resistant cities at the national and local levels of governments, especially in disaster-prone countries. Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Initial Response Systems used for Major Earthquakes and Disaster-resistant City Planning.- Chapter 2. Theory of Spare City Planning: for Temporary Use in Case of Emergency.- Chapter 3. Reconstruction Plans.- Chapter 4. Summary and Issues That Need to Be Considered.- Chapter 5. Conclusion: How to embrace lessons learnt from previous earthquake disasters.

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Book SynopsisThis edited book covers all aspects of forest deforestation and degradation in detail and their link to land degradation. Poor natural resource management is often a contributory factor in the depletion of resources particularly like degradation of land which hinders the goals to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN). Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 15.3 states: “By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought, and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world.” To achieve the set goals a comprehensive multidirectional approach is required involving policymakers, field functionaries, researchers, and above all educators. The book compiles the field experiences and wisdom of some of the best researchers and authors working in the field of land degradations for quite a long time. The objective of the book is to disseminate the status of land degradation, the importance of achieving land degradation and share success stories of reclaiming Land degradation, and suggests means and ways of achieving land degradation neutrality. This book act as a repository of knowledge on Land degradation neutrality for students, researchers and practitioners, and policy planners. Table of Contentschapter 1. Forest Resources of the World: Present Status and Future Prospectus.- Chapter 2. Effect of Deforestation and Forest Fragmentation on Ecosystem Services.- Chapter 3. Impact of Deforestation on Faunal Diversity and Its Management Strategies.- Chapter 4. Drivers of Deforestation, Forest Degradation and Management Responses in Ghana.- Chapter 5. Forest Degradation in Nigeria: Case Study of Rugu Forest Reserve, Katsina State.- Chapter 6.Deforestation and Degradation in the Mangrove Ecosystem: Implication on Environment and Livelihoods.- Chapter 7. Assessing Land Degradation using SDG 15.3.1 Indicators: Case Study from Climatevulnerable Assam State of India.- Chapter 8. Benefits and Risks Analysis of a Novel Nomadic Practice in Northeast China.- Chapter 9.Soil Degradation: Causes, Consequences and Analytical Tools.- Chapter 10. Accountability of Woody Plants for Restoring Degraded Forest Landscapes and Provision for Ecosystem Services: An overview.- Chapter 11. Ecological Restoration of Degraded Forests for Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality.- Chapter 12. Tree Plantation: A Silver Bullet to Achieve Carbon Neutrality.- Chapter 13. Role of Protected Area in Conservation and Sustainable Management of Biodiversity: An Indian Perspective.- Chapter 14. Structure, Pattern and Composition of Riparian Vegetation in North-Western Himalayas, India.- Chapter 15. Land Degradation Neutrality in Coastal India: Case of Mobius' Strip Linking Pedodiversity and Biodiversity.- Chapter 16. Role of REDD+ in reducing Land Degradation and Achieving SDGs.- Chapter 17. Carbon Sequestration Acts as a Moderator for Soil Restoration of Degraded Coal Mined Lands: An Overview.- Chapter 18. Nature Conservation Effects on Forest Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity of Plants and Macro-fungi: A Case Study in Central Lesser Khingan Mountains, NE China.- Chapter 19. Urban Forest Resources: A Strategy for Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality.- Chapter 20. Soil Nitrogen Dynamics and Management in Agroforestry Systems for Ecological Sustainability.- Chapter 21. Land Degradation Neutrality for Achieving Climate Resilience in Agriculture.- Chapter 22. NTFP and Homegarden vis-à-vis Land Degradation Neutrality: Sustainable Livelihood and development.- Chapter 23. Indian Forests: Sustainable Uses and Its Role in Livelihood Security.

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Book SynopsisGeographic Information Systems (GIS) play a pivotal role in the field of urban planning and management and provide better solutions for numerous urban problems. With GIS, one has the ability to better understand existing requirements of a city and its design to fulfill those needs. This book contributes to developing scientific knowledge based on geospatial technologies among planners, researchers, scientists, professionals, students, and laymen and providing them with better understanding for urban planning and management at various levels. The book manifests the importance of GIS in better understanding of current urban challenges and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It also encourages the various stakeholders of society to participate in the decision-making process and assists planners and authorities to formulate suitable plans for sustainable urban growth of a region. The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes the fundamental concepts of GIS and also deals with the advanced techniques of spatial planning. The second part addresses real-world case studies using various applications of GIS. The case studies include urban land-use changes, simulation of future urban growth, urban heat island, alternate landfill site selection and urban flood susceptibility mapping, among others. This book shows how to integrate GIS with remote sensing, geostatistics, artificial intelligence-machine learning techniques, and other cutting-edge technologies. Readers find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and management.Table of ContentsPART I Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems 1. Introduction of Geographic Information System 2. Referencing and Coordinate Systems in GIS 3. GIS Data Models 4. Data Input in GIS 5. Data Visualization and Output 6. Spatial Data Analysis 7. Non-spatial Data Management 8. Applications of GIS in Urban Policy/Planning/Management PART II Case Studies: Applications of Geographic Information Systems in Urban Planning and Management 9. Case Study 1 – Monitoring and Modelling of Urban Land Use Changes 10. Case Study 2 – Simulating Future Urban Growth using Cellular Automata-Markov Chain Models 11. Case Study 3 – Identification of Potential Sites for Housing Development Using GIS Based Multi-Criteria Evaluation Technique 12. Case Study 4 – Urban Green Space Analysis and Potential Site Selection for Green Space Expansion 13. Case Study 5 – A Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Alternative Landfill Site Selections Using Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach 14. Case Study 6 – Urban Flood Susceptibility Modelling of Srinagar using Novel Fuzzy Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network (Fuzzy MLPNN) 15. Case Study 7 – Assessment, Mapping and prediction of Urban Heat Island

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Book SynopsisThis book presents recent advances in renewable energy scenarios for future Indian smart cities including technologies and devices at the scales of both experimental and theoretical models for Industry 4.0, the concept of automated and computerized industrial manufacturing and practices. The current Indian economy is inclined towards smart urban cities, but the energy deficit in modern society is not well recognized. As a result, there is an enormous need to explore alternative avenues of energy for future smart cities. Because such cities depend significantly on technologies and devices that comprise Industry 4.0, the synthesis of energy scenarios enables an understanding of the technology, applications and devices that contribute immensely to the textile, construction, cosmetics, biomedical and environmental industries, among others. These industrial areas are the key starting points for a wide range of applications, consequently becoming top priorities for science and technology policy development. Such advances already have been adopted in various contemporary services and products, especially in the fields of electronics, health care, chemicals, cosmetics, composites and energy. This book is a valuable resource for practising energy planners, citizens and professionals such as businesspeople, bureaucrats from all levels of government, employees from nongovernmental public organizations and their volunteers and other individuals who have stakes in the development of their city-region.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Concept of Sustainable Energy System for Smart Cities Chapter 2 – Overview to renewable energy systems Chapter 3 – Advancement in Renewable Energy Scenarios Chapter 4 – Conventional methods of energy system evaluation Chapter 5 – Quantifying the amount of energy harvest Chapter 6 – Variability of energy resources at diverse scale Chapter 7 – Feasibility analysis of an energy system Chapter 8 – Synthesis and transitions in energy systems, and policy

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Book SynopsisA study of the forces that shaped Jakarta into the city it is today. Indonesian writer Seno Gumira Ajidarma has called Jakarta a city of a thousand dimensions. A megacity of 30 million under threat from rising sea levels and temperatures, Jakarta and its resilient residents improvise and thrive. This book teases out some of the dimensions that have given shape to contemporary Jakarta, including the city’s expanded flexibility in accommodating capital and labor, and the consistent lack of planning that can be understood as a result of both politics and the poetics of governing in the region. Jakarta is essential reading for those seeking to understand one of Asia's most dynamic cities.Table of ContentsDedicationList of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: A City with a Thousand Dimensions: Theory, Practice, Subjectivity1. Middling Urbanism2. The Rule of Many Orders 3. Roads, Rhizomes and Regimes4. Where will the Water Go?5. A New Assemblage City6. Urban Politics7. Islamist Urbanism8. Escape from Jakarta: The Future Redux9. Jakarta: A Conversation10. Our Streets: Reflections on a Pandemic CityAfterword: On "Multitude" and the Urban Question: A Reading in a Time of PandemicsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on original Burmese texts and illustrations, recent scholarship, and mapping, Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma argues that the founding of Mandalay shifted critically in emphasis and scale during its planning from a protocol that established the royal city as a “cosmic city” to one that viewed the royal capital as a sanctuary. As part of that shift, FranÇois Tainturier shows, the founding protocol used Buddhist narratives as models for action and drastically altered patterns of spatial order that had been prevalent at former royal capitals. The systematic planning of Mandalay and the construction of its potent landscape constituted the expression—formulated not in words but in tangible form—of the throne’s claim that Burma was a “Buddhist land,” at a time when Lower Burma had been annexed by non-Buddhist believers. Tainturier provides further insight into how rulers articulated their lineage, power, and the promotion of Buddhism by creating potent landscapes. Mandalay and the Art of Building Cities in Burma renews scholarly discussion on Southeast Asian urban traditions and offers a critical investigation into the “cosmic” dimensions of one of the region’s centers of power.Trade Review“François Tainturier and NUS Press show a work of very good quality. The visual quality, the format, the large number of figures–old maps, photos from the colonial era, diagrams and comparative plans–the care given to the very beautiful layout, are all elements that strike you at first sight.” * Moussons *[This] is a fascinating book, fluidly written, thoroughly researched and clearly structured around key arguments. . . . Overall, the book is a textured and meticulous work of passion that deserves to be read by anyone interested in Southeast Asia’s cultural, religious and urban history. It is also a valuable reminder that Burma can be apprehended and appreciated for its cultural and historical richness beyond the horrors faced by its people today.” * SOJOURN *“In producing this uniquely interdisciplinary study of Mandalay’s urban planning history, Tainturier effortlessly integrates disparate scholarly domains, including religion, architecture, history, and area studies… The careful analysis that distinguishes this book makes it a significant contribution to the historiography of urban planning outside Europe and the Americas, and demonstrates that local concepts and terminologies need not always be understood as perennial or inherent. To engage in nuanced discussion, scholars also need to take historical change into account.” * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Building Upon Precedence 3. The Making of a Sanctuary 4. The "Earth Palace" as Cosmic Pivot 5. Ordering Space in the Royal City and Beyond 6. The "Seven Places" 7. The "Blessed One's Bazaar" Materialized 8. Conclusion: Building the City of Dhamma

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Book SynopsisThis open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage for marginalized groups. It offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay of geographical space, recognizing its pivotal role in shaping our cities and exacerbating spatial injustice. The construction industry, a vital agent in forging accessible environments, often falls short in accommodating persons with disabilities and older individuals. This important book underscores the urgent need for integrated approaches woven into the fabric of cities, companies, and the construction industry itself, to ensure universal accessibility. Drawing upon practical strategies and compelling case studies, the book presents actionable frameworks such as the DisCo Policy Framework and the Iceberg of Inequality Model, facilitating the assessment of progress towards achieving radical inclusion. Inviting readers to embark on a journey into the cities of tomorrow, where inclusion and belonging are the norm, it concludes with a simple idea: the future is accessible.Table of Contents1 Radical Inclusion: The Key to Urban Transformation2 The Legacy of Radical Exclusion in Cities3 Constructing a New Approach to Radical Inclusion4 How Cities Shape Our Experience5 Making and Measuring Progress in Radically Inclusive Cities6 Emerging Trends in Cities of Tomorrow7 The Era of the New Normal

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Book SynopsisIn the British colonial city of Singapore, municipal authorities and Asian communities faced off over numerous issue. As the city expanded, disputes arose in connection with sanitation, housing, street names, control over pedestrian 'five-foot-ways', and sacred spaces such as burial grounds. Brenda Yeoh's Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore details these conflicts and how they shaped the city. The British administration structured the private and public environments of the city with an eye toward shaping human behaviour, following scientific principles and the lessons of urban planning in other parts of the world. For the Asian communities, Singapore was the place where they lived according to their own values, priorities and resources. The two perceptions of the city frequently clashed, and the author reads the cityscape of Singapore as the result of this contest between discipline and resistance. Drawing on meticulous research and a theoretically sophisticated use of cultural and social geography, post-colonial historical discourse, and social theory, the author offers a compelling picture of a critical stage in Singapore's past. It is an important contribution to the study of colonial cities and an indispensable resource for understanding the shape of modern Singapore.Trade ReviewHistorical urban geography at its best!" —Progress in Human Geography"What a splendid book this is!" —Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia contains four urban conglomerates of the sort that this study characterizes as Mega-Urban Regions - Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh. These locations are examined in this book, along with Taipei and Shanghai. Because the administrative boundaries of the cities at the core of these zones do not include the entire urban area, the significance of the broader urban community has largely escaped scholarly attention. The authors base their analysis on actual agglomeration size rather than administrative boundaries, and draw on unpublished census data to study the dynamics of these massive urban zones, considering area and population size as well as social and demographic patterns of change in core, inner and outer zones. They conclude that these mega-urban regions continue to increase their share of national populations, and zones immediately beyond the official metropolitan boundaries are where the most dramatic changes are occurring.

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Book SynopsisLandscape is not only the visible material surface of places but also refers to ways of interpreting fluid or contested social relations and spatial arrangements. The essays in this book critically examine how material and immaterial landscapes take shape in Singapore and their impacts on the population. They further assess how different social groups in Singapore inhabit landscapes and negotiate changing societal dynamics and conditions. The book contextualises developments in Singapore within regional and international trends. A standard Singapore Studies textbook, this book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand this ever-changing island, city and state.

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