Cities and Growth: A Policy Handbook

摘要

Modern urban planning (known by its current buzzword "growth management practices") is a hot topic right now, given the constraints of population growth, environmental concerns, and city centre vs. suburb living patterns. There are four major categories of growth management practices currently in vogue, and this book addresses all of them: "Protection" planning programmes, designed to safeguard human habitation areas from deterioration by either the natural or man-made environment through regulations and land use techniques; "Restoration" planning programmes, focused on restoring deteriorated human habitation areas, such as inner cities; "Creation" planning programmes, involved in the establishment of new areas of human habitation, including the promotion and protection of the environment; "Preservation" planning programmes, established to safeguard and preserve already existing desirable areas of human habitation, including the man-made and the natural environment. The book is divided into four sections. The first