Browsing Dialogues in Urban Planning: Towards Sustainable Regions by title
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Planning a sustainable downtown in the global era: a case study of San Franciso
Published 2008-01-01Sustainability has been a buzzword of urban planning for the past two decades. This is particularly true in the discourse of planning effort specifically focused on the downtown area. In the downtown discourse, the concept ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Planning for sustainable change: a review of Australian local planning schemes
Published 2008-01-01Sustainable development, defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’, ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Planning for sustainable development: 'wicked problems' at Sydney's Malabar Headland
Published 2008-01-01This chapter explores a set of wicked problems in the Malabar Headland in Sydney, Australia. By employing a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, it was found that wicked problems were produced, reproduced and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Public health and the sustainability of cities: Sydney airport's noise pollution and community wellbeing
Published 2008-01-01The development of international airports is a driving force behind globalisation. But growth in air traffic is also a threat to sustainable community health in the vicinity of airports. Airports are an increasingly important ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Recovery of the soul: sustainable rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans
Published 2008-01-01Although the notion of sustainable development is usually associated with the design and building of new settlements, this chapter illustrates how this notion can also be used to undergird the recovery strategies to rebuild ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Sustainable planning for poor communities: urban design studios as a catalyst for development in Colombia
Published 2008-01-01This chapter addresses the potential role of sustainable urban design studios as catalysts for development in slum communities of the developing world. Understanding urbanisation processes in the developing world is important ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Sustainable transport planning: assessing transit oriented development in north-west Sydney
Published 2008-01-01The main aim of this chapter is to design a generic planning and assessment framework in economic perspectives to gauge the sustainability of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) around bus corridors in North West sector ...Open AccessBook chapter