Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis

Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis
Author: Jay D. Gatrell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2016-03-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319262181

This book explores the environmental, economic, and socio-political dynamics of sustainability from a geographic perspective. The chapters unite the often disparate worlds of environment, economics, and politics by seeking to understand and visualize a range of sustainability practices on the ground and in place. In concert, the book provides an overview of a range of geotechnical applications associated with environmental change (water resources, land use & land cover change); as well as investigates more nuanced and novel examples of local economic development in cities. The diverse collection maps local practices from urban farming to evolving and thriving industries such as metal scrapping and craft beer. Additionally, the book provides an integrated geo-technical framework for understanding and assessing ecosystem services, explores the deployment of unmanned systems to understand urban environmental change, interrogates the spatial politics of urban green movements, examines the implications of revised planning practices, and investigates environmental justice. The book will be of interest to researchers, students, and anyone seeking to better understand sustainability at multiple scales in urban environments.

Applying an Integrated Model to the Evaluation of Travel Demand Management Policies in the Sacramento Region

Applying an Integrated Model to the Evaluation of Travel Demand Management Policies in the Sacramento Region
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2001
Genre: City planning
ISBN:

This report describes how an advanced integrated land use and transportation model (the Sacramento MEPLAN) was used to evaluate transit and supportive land use and pricing policies. The model represents the effect that the transportation system has on land use. The interaction of land use and transportation needs to be represented. Otherwise, there may be a biased analysis of transit and highway alternatives. The Sacramento MEPLAN features a more comprehensive representation of induced travel effects, thus increasing sensitivity to policies such as transit, land use measures and pricing policies.

Growing Cooler

Growing Cooler
Author: Reid H. Ewing
Publisher: Urban Land Institute
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it -- by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

Urban Land

Urban Land
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 694
Release: 2008
Genre: City planning
ISBN: