Books in the Urban Planning and Environment series

Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies.

In this text, Gert de Roo provides an overview and critical analysis of Dutch environmental planning. He shows how and why the country's planning system has moved away from its traditional "top-down" structure.

Eleven countries have implemented pilot schemes that integrate urban physical planning and environmental quality management. This study presents their findings, critically assesses their work and seeks to encourage further innovations in this field.

Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, and also of improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. While interdisciplinary in scope, this book takes a primarily planning approach to examining bicycling in urban areas.

This book examines not only how instruments of land policy are used to tackle the complex distribution of property rights, but also how they can be strategically used to manage the scarcity of land.

This book addresses the relationship between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. The book will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students in the fields of planning, transport and geography.

This book includes overviews of the planning systems in the five Nordic countries drawing attention to their increasing focus on sustainability. A leading team of scholars from the fields of planning, urban design, architecture, landscape, economics explore how the notion of sustainability has shaped planning research in the Nordic countries.

Originally published in 1997, this text provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. This second edition is fully revised and updated.

Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations, such as Carriacon, Barbados and St Lucia and larger countries, including Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica, this book brings together leading writers concerned with environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an interdisciplinary contemporary critical overview.

While there has been much recent research into how to achieve sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities.

Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners. However, the question of what can planners contribute to the advancement of such notion has not received much attention until now.

Addresses the relationships between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. Three sections presents empirical research and commentaries from leading academics and practitioners from Europe, the U.S.A, Australia and Japan.

Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts.

Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts.

An inter-disciplinary book that adopts an all-Ireland perspective to investigate the tension that exists between sustainable urban development values and rhetoric, and the emerging geography of urban Ireland, influenced by consumer and lifestyle choices. This book will appeal to students, academics, policy and decision-makers.

Focusing on the New Zealand government's innovations in sustainable and environmental planning, particularly the Resource Management Act of 1991, this book highlights planning and governance under developed and co-operative mandates. Uses multiple methods to evaluate the quality of policy statements and district plans.