Alternative Urban Futures : Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World.
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| Author / Creator: | Pinderhughes, Raquel. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11202961 |
| Summary: | Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop and manage essential urban infrastructures in ways that support sustainable development in the areas of waste management, water supply and management, energy production and use, building design and construction, land-use, transportation, and food systems. Each chapter features case studies that provide concrete examples of how ecologically and socially responsible urban and sustainable development planning and policy approaches have been successfully implemented in cities around the world. The book is especially effective in its emphasis on recently published statistics and writing supporting new planning and policy recommendations. Each chapter ends with a summary, accompanied by a list of questions that can be addressed with information provided in the text. |
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| Item Description: | Incorporating Urban Agriculture and Food-Related Issues into Urban Planning Concerns. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780742569812 0742569810 1299781861 9781299781863 0742523667 9780742523661 0742523675 9780742523678 |