Julius Fabos - Planning the Total Landscape: A Guide to Intelligent Land Use

Planning the Total Landscape: A Guide to Intelligent Land Use

Julius Gy. Fabos

Rapid changes in land use, especially in growing metropolitan areas, have created problems that increasingly indicate an urgent need for techniques and procedures for making intelligent land-use decisions. This book identifies the potential undesirable effects of land-use changes and provides techniques for estimating and minimizing them. Based on several years of research conducted by a team of thirty-four faculty and assistants, the study shows how planners and decision makers can benefit from such contemporary planning tools as remote sensing, statistical analysis, and computer technology, as well as a variety of evaluation procedures.

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Julius Gy. Fabos, professor of landscape planning and director of the program in regional planning at the University of Massachusetts, received a masters degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in resource planning and conservation from the University of Michigan. Dr. Fabos is also visiting professor at the Centre for Environmental Studies in Parkville, Australia.

Julius Gy. Fabos

First published 1979 by Westview Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Fabos, Julius Gy.
Planning the total landscape.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Land usePlanning. 2. Land useEnvironmental aspects. 3. Metropolitan areas. 4. Land usePlanningMassachusetts. I. Title.
HD111.F28 333.7'09744 78-3639

ISBN 13:978-0-367-28300-1 (hbk)

PLANNING THE TOTAL LANDSCAPE: A GUIDE TO INTELLIGENT LAND USE

One of the major ramifications of technological development over the past fifty years has been the complete transformation of the pattern of urban development in industrialized countries. Until the middle of this century, the expansion of cities generally concentrated more and more people and buildings around an important regional transportation node. In earlier times, this node might have been a natural harbor or a fordable stretch of river; later it was perhaps a railway depot or a stop on a trolley route. The availability of private automobiles, however, robbed these historical determinants of urban location of their force; not only could a car travel wherever there were roads, but it soon became evident that it was feasible, both technically and economically, to build roads to many more areas of the landscape than had been possible with any previous form of transport infrastructure. This fact has had particular significance in the areas near older urban concentrations. The "opening up" of the countryside has proved to be a tremendous stimulus to development as thousands of former city dwellers found in "suburban living" at least a simulacrum of rural amenity. For the first time in history, decentralization had become the model of urban growth.