Browsing Dialogues in Urban Planning: Towards Sustainable Regions by publication year
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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 -
Crafting economic drivers for local areas in globalising regional economy: Sydney as a case study
Published 2008-01-01Using tools of small area analysis of the internal spatial economies of the Sydney metropolitan region, this chapter looks at how the region could reach new strategic goals with a more equitable metropolitan economic ...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 -
The importance of organisational structure in building a sustainable non-profit housing sector
Published 2008-01-01This chapter reviews the limited research on organisational typologies in countries with similar liberal welfare regimes, focusing on examples from England and Australia. It provides an understanding of the emerging types ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Collaborative planning & sustainability: exploring ecosystems as common-pool resources in the Lockyer Catchment
Published 2008-01-01This chapter examines the current planning and management of natural resources in the Lockyer Catchment in Queensland, Australia, and explores potentials for planning and management informed by the concept of ‘commons’ or ...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 -
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 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 -
Metrics of environmental sustainability, social equity and economic efficiency for employment location & commuting
Published 2008-01-01The scope of this chapter is employment location and commuting for the journey-to-work travel from origins in the outer western suburbs of Sydney to all other destinations, and journey to home from major employment centres ...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 -
Introduction: towards sustainable regions
Published 2008-01-01This book highlights how the notion of sustainability has permeated all the research and teaching activities of the Planning Research Centre and the Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of Sydney. In line ...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