INTEGRATING CITY PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENT
To children and grandchildren everywhere who provide a major reason for pursuing sustainable urban development.
First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Integrating city planning and environmental improvement: practicable strategies for sustainable urban development. - 2nd ed.-(Urban planning and environment)
1. City planning - Environmental aspects 2. Urbanization - Environmental aspects 3. Urban renewal - Environmental aspects
I. Miller, Donald II. Roo, Gert de
711.42
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Integrating city planning and environmental improvement: practicable strategies for sustainable urban development / edited by Donald Miller, Gert de Roo. -- 2nd ed.
p. cm. -- (Urban planning and environment)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-4283-6
1. City planning - Environmental aspects. 2. Urban ecology. 3. Sustainable development. 4. Urbanization-Environmental aspects. I. Roo, Gert de. II. Miller, Donald, 1936- III. Series.
HT241.15825 2004
307.1 216dc22
2004049050
Transfered to Digital Printing in 2012
ISBN 9780754642831 (hbk)
Contents
D. Miller and G. de Roo
M. van den Berg
J.A. van Staalduine and M. T. T. Simons
H. Blanco
A. Dal Cin
A. Kanonier
R. Piro
A. Dijkstra
H.R. Howes
J.J. Pereira and I. Komoo
A. Vaah
H. Blanco
F.H.J.M. Coenen
A. Bus
M. de Maar and E. Zinger
J. Oosterveld
C. Moller
A. Schreuders and E. Hoejlaak
D. Miller
S.D. Vconez
V.M. Sol, J. de Boer, F.H. Oosterhuis, J.F. Feenstra and H. Verbruggen
M. Partidirio and H. Voogd
A.J.M. Schoot Uiterkamp, K.J. Nooman and W. Biesiot
H. Srinivas
Planning system
Implementation and management system
Sub-objectives that contribute to the realisation of the dual objective
Objective-means hierarchy (fragment)
Projects indicators matrix scheme
The three areas of information evaluated by the Programme Bureau
Costs and benefits; the developers calculations
Geohazards in the Klang Valley
Land use map of Greenpoint-Williamsburg
Index of exposure to airborne toxicants from TRI reporters by block group, Greenpoint-Williamsburg
Zoning map of Greenpoint-Williamsburg
Index of vehicular noise annoyance block group and truck and elevated train routes, Greenpoint-Williamsburg
Ecological neighbourhood renewal: differences between a traditional and an ecological approach
Important issues for implementing ecological measures posed in questions and related to the four phases in a renewal process
Neighbourhood Vinkhuizen
A planning method which offers the possibilities to realise sustainable measures in a neighbourhood renewal process
Situation of the plan area
Focus area of Yonge Street
Using the method to look for environment-friendly variants
Example: presentation of achieved qualities
Structuring into area types
New housing construction versus public transport
Land use according to zoning plan
Preferred land use according to the method
Components of collective welfare
Use of Wework for decisions
The metabolism concept applied to households
Different sets of constraints determine the potential for change of household metabolism
Basic functions and goals of the VPL
Operational framework of the VPL
Digital networks of the VPL
Organisational framework of the VPL
Differences in approach between environmental policy and spatial planning in The Netherlands
The pH and acidity of rainwater, and the heavy metal content of wet fallout in Petaling Jaya for 1990 and 1995
BAEL indices and inputs
Potential applications of BAEL to types of decisions
Comparison of VROMs IEZ to Greenpoint-Williamsburgs BAEL
The Dutch environmental and physical planning system
Categories of spatial planning solutions
Environmental problems of the urban core
Goals for downtown urban renewal
Working toward sustainable downtown renewal: General guidelines for grassroots initiatives
The sustainable street as created by a combined effort
Types of areas based on public transport connections and ecological quality
Excerpt from one of the tables with environmental qualities
Indicators of sustainable community 1995
King County performance monitoring indicators
Categories and numbers of indicators for five Central Puget sound sustainability benchmark programs
General comparison of five urban sustainability benchmark programs
Procedural integration models
Factors underlying developments in household metabolism
Components of the urban environment
Environmental information in the policy and data production processes
Uses of decision support system
M. van den Berg Professor, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
W. Biesiot Faculty of the Department of Energy and Environment, University ofGroningen, The Netherlands.
H. Blanco Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
J. de Boer Research Co-ordinator, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
A. Bus Faculty, Saxion Polytechnic, Deventer, The Netherlands.
A. Dal Cin Professor, University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
F.H.J.M. Coenen Faculty of Public Administration, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
A. Dijkstra Environmental Planner, Directorate of Public Works, City of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J.F. Feenstra Deputy Head, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
E. Hoeflaak Policy Advisor, Environmental Policy Department, Municipality of Rotterdam, The Netherlands.