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Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance
Robert Riddell
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Description for Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance
Paperback. Introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. This text shows a recognition that cities, where the majority of humans live, need to be developed in a sustainable way. It weaves together the concerns of planning, capitalism, and cultural and environmental preservation. Num Pages: 356 pages, 119. BIC Classification: RNU; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 253 x 22. Weight in Grams: 680.
Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.
- This timely text introduces the principles and practice behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.
- Reflects a growing recognition that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way.
- Weaves together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation.
- Helps students and planners to marry the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405102902
SKU
V9781405102902
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Robert Riddell
Robert Riddell is Professor Emeritus at Auckland University, New Zealand.
Reviews for Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance
"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