Amazon.com: Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance (9781405102902): Robert Riddell: Books
Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more


or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
or
Amazon Prime Free Trial required. Sign up when you check out. Learn More
Sell Back Your Copy
For a $3.81 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance
 
 
Start reading Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance [Paperback]

Robert Riddell (Author)

List Price: $54.95
Price: $46.43 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Details
You Save: $8.52 (16%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Want it delivered Friday, February 24? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
Textbook Student FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
Kindle Edition $41.79  
Hardcover --  
Paperback $46.43  

Book Description

January 5, 2004 140510290X 978-1405102902 1
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.

Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed


Editorial Reviews

Review

"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

Book Description

Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability. Its publication reflects a growing recognition in the fields of planning and environmental studies that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way. The text takes a balanced approach, weaving together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation. It helps students and planners to connect the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain. This approach is mirrored in the structure of the book which is divided into two parts, one focusing on theories and the other on techniques.

Product Details


More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews


There are no customer reviews yet.
Video reviews
Video reviews
Amazon now allows customers to upload product video reviews. Use a webcam or video camera to record and upload reviews to Amazon.



Inside This Book (learn more)
First Sentence:
What impresses the newcomer to the Anglo settler society nations of Northern America and Australasia is how resource discovery, scientific and technological invention, and political force have so powerfully and rapidly imprinted a 'rightness' over the last two hundred years (pastoralism and agriculture as well as plantation forestry, along with urban settlement) and a conjoint 'wrongness' (flora, wildlife and soil evisceration, along with much misery for the indigenous 'first' peoples). Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
growth pattern management, urban social arrangement, settler society nations, multiplier spiral, conservancy practice, sustainable urban planning, standard suburbia, indigenous first peoples, soft pathways, urban growth management, conservation with development, growth management practice, triple harmony, risk impact assessment, multiplier benefits, entropic disorder, sustainability ideal, tolerable harmony, waste disposal management, planning operatives, radical planning, resource uptake, planning practitioners, settler societies, environmental harmony
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, New Zealand, World War, Old World, David Harvey, United Nations, Practice Box, Jane Jacobs, Log Frame, Adam Smith, Third World, Richard Sennett, Natural Capitalism, Robert Kaplan, Aldo Leopold, British Isles, Clarence Stein, David Sucher's City Comforts, George Bush, James Kunstler, Joel Garreau, John Ralston Saul, Kirkpatrick Sale, Suburban Nation, Urban Land Institute
New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats
Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Search Inside This Book:




Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
 

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums





Look for Similar Items by Category


Look for Similar Items by Subject