Contemporary Issues in Australian Urban and Regional Planning (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Brunner, Julie; Glasson, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Issues in Australian Urban and Regional Planning looks at a wide range of planning issues in Australia from the city to the regional scale, covering key topics in sustainable development and planning including economic, social, environmental and governance perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317592891
• Artikelnr.: 42887638

Autorenporträt

Julie Brunner has a wide range of experience in both planning practice and planning education in Australia. She has held senior roles, including Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and in online teaching and learning development, at Curtin University. She pioneered the Open University Australia (OUA) postgraduate planning education course. John Glasson is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Planning at Oxford Brookes University (UK), where he was Head of the School of Planning and Founding Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD). He has also had a long-standing role as Visiting Professor at Curtin University. His research interests are in regional planning and impact assessment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1-- Pressures and principles: the changing planning
context 1. The evolving framework for planning in Australia - moving
towards sustainable governance? 2. The evolving natural environmental
context for planning in Australia- biodiversity and climate change 3. The
evolving social context for planning in Australia 4. Planning in a
sustainable economic context: economic opportunities and determinants of
competitive places (economic sustainability) Part 2--- Practice and
processes: contemporary planning issues 5. Planning intervention in
metropolitan urban form - the 21st century challenge of urban consolidation
in Australian capital cities 6. Rural-residential lifestyles: a sustainable
lifestyle choice or pure extravagance? A Western Australian review 7. The
transformation of the Australian rural landscape: planning to accommodate
and facilitate change 8. Regional development and planning challenges in
resource rich regions 9. Coastal zone planning and management in the face
of climate change 10. Trends in urban design 11. Affordable housing and the
planning stumbling block 12. Crime as an unintended consequence: planning
for healthy cities and the need to move beyond crime prevention through
environmental design (CPTED) 13. Planning for urban open space: reflections
and challenges 14. Low impact public transport: complementing active
transport through Community Bus Part 3 --- Future processes and prospects
15. Assessing sustainability: testing planning practice 16. Managing risk
in residential land development in Australia 17. Democracy and the risk
society 18. Planning education: work integrated learning 19. Contemporary
planning education--in the online environment Conclusions - towards the
future