Smart Growth Policies
Author : Gregory K. Ingram
Publisher : Lincoln Inst of Land Policy
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781558441903
From Sprawl to Sustainability
Author : Robert H. Freilich
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2010
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9781604428124
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: From sprawl to smart growth.
Smart Growth
Author : Jon Reeds
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781900322829
Book Description
"Smart Growth" explains what the UK must do to improve the quality of life in an overcrowded land. Urban sprawl is unsustainable in an age of climate change and peak oil. But for 100 years, the UK s planning policies have been based on ideals of low-density living and attitudes that favor the individual over community, creating car-dependent lifestyles and destroying the beloved countryside. This book argues that the UK should look to America a country that embraced urban sprawl and car dependency on a far grander scale than the UK ever did to find answers to the problem to rapid growth and community planning, The Smart Growth America movement is steering a course toward better-designed, compact cities and rail-based transit systems, thereby restoring communities ruined by decades of suburban insularity."
Smart Growth Entrepreneurs
Author : Erik Solevad Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 331941027X
Book Description
This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs—innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying to manage their population and economic growth by implementing the design principles of Smart Growth and New Urbanism, developing green buildings that are compact, mixed-use, and in close proximity to transit services. How do innovators, governments, and markets interact in this planning and development process? The book profiles smart growth entrepreneurs and their projects in both Southern California and the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. The author highlights the unique obstacles, political and economic, that these actors encounter and details the centrality of markets and regulations in sustainable urban development.
Handbook on Smart Growth
Author : Knaap, Gerrit-Jan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1789904692
Book Description
This timely Research Handbook examines the evolution of smart growth over the past three decades, mapping the trajectory from its original principles to its position as an important paradigm in urban planning today. Critically analysing the original concept of smart growth and how it has been embedded in state and local plans, contributions from top scholars in the field illustrate what smart growth has accomplished since its conception, as well as to what extent it has achieved its goals.
Smart Cities and the UN SDGs
Author : Anna Visvizi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0323859186
Book Description
Smart Cities and the UN's SDGs explores how smart cities initiatives intersect with the global goal of making urbanization inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Topics explored include digital governance, e-democracy, health care access, public-private partnerships, well-being, and more. Examining smart cities concepts, tools, strategies, and obstacles and their applicability to sustainability, the book exposes key structural problems that cities face and how the imperative of sustainability can bypass them. It shows how smart city technological innovation can boost citizens' well-being, serving as a key reference for those seeking to make sense of the issues and challenges of smart cities and SDGs. - Includes numerous case studies from around the world - Features interdisciplinary insights from academic and practitioner experts - Offers an extensive literature review
Smart Growth and Sustainable Development
Author : Qisheng Pan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319482963
Book Description
This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of land use, protect the natural and cultural environment, promote economic prosperity and improve the quality of life. Authors address various challenges experienced in China, including deepening regional imbalances, an aging population, wholesale environmental degradation and traffic congestion. China’s official long-term urbanization plan sets many challenges for urban planners, these range from implementation of the plan and financing, to protection of vulnerable groups and social justice. This book brings readers up to date on the use of big data and modern technologies such as geographic information system technology (GIS). The work encompasses themes of environmental planning, community development, cultural heritage preservation, land use and transportation, urban studies, climate change, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, disaster planning and social equity. Authors present the very latest theories and practices of smart growth and offer many valuable insights to urban planners and scholars, as well as policy makers.
An Approach to Assess the Effectiveness of Smart Growth in Achieving Sustainable Development
Author : Ishak Mohammed
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Smart Growth has become an evident concept in public policy debates and provides answers to the enduring problems of sprawling development and its many adverse consequences. While the concept has widely been touted to promote an urban development pattern characterized by compact and mixed-use development, walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, preserved green spaces, and the availability of mass transit, not much has been written about its contribution to sustainable development. This paper is an attempt to explore the concepts of smart growth and sustainable development and the extent to which the former contributes to the achievement of the latter. The various debates surrounding the smart growth movement have also been explored. The 2003 general plan guideline by the US State of California is used as the basis for determining the sustainable development role of smart growth policies in Portland (Oregon), Arlington (Virginia), Boulder (Colorado) and Lancaster County (Pennsylvania). The paper concludes that it would be inappropriate to equate smart growth to sustainable development as the latter is a much broader concept and cuts across myriad disciplines. Notwithstanding, the implementation of smart growth policies in the cases studied have been observed to promote compact, infill and transit-oriented development and to conserve and protect open spaces and natural areas. All these are pro-sustainable development. While this paper has observed that smart growth serves as one of the approaches for achieving sustainable development goals, it calls for a more quantitative study to be able to measure the magnitude of the contribution associated with the smart growth policies.
Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth
Author : Yonn Dierwechter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319544489
Book Description
This book investigates the new urban geographies of “smart” metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle area and examines the relationship between smart growth planning strategies and spaces of work, home, and mobility. The book specifically explores Seattle within the wider space-economy and multi-scaled policy regime of the Puget Sound region as a whole, ‘jumping up’ from questions of city politics to concerns with what the book interprets as the “intercurrence” of city-regional “ordering." These theoretical terms capture the state-progressive effort to promote smarter forms of regional development but also the societal/institutional tensions and outright contradictions that such urban development invariably entails, particularly around problems of social equity. Key organizing themes in the text include: the historical path-dependencies of uneven economic and social development, particularly between Tacoma-Pierce County and Seattle-King County; current patterns of high-wage, medium-wage, and low-wage jobs; the emerging spatial and social structure of recent residential changes, especially with respect to class and race composition; and, finally, transit trends and new urban spaces associated with policy efforts to mitigate highway congestion and car-dependency. Greater Seattle, then, is mapped as a key US urban region inscribed spatially by the uneven search for a more sustainable order. Historically-sensitive, theoretically-informed and empirically topical, this book is of interest to scholars and students at all levels in regional planning, urban geography, political science, sustainability studies, urban sociology and public policy.
Smart Growth and Sustainable Development
Author : Patricia Salkin
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
This article is intended to shift attention away from the growing literature on state smart growth issues and focus on the continuing interest at the federal level with respect to land use planning and smart-growth issues. Although the article does not advocate a national land use policy, it does demonstrate that there has been a de facto national policy and agenda in the making in the nation's capital under the guise of sustainable development and that this is merely an extension of the historical federal interest and influence in land use policy.
