This is a response to the need for up-to-date information about three major challenges posed by urbanization: buildings, transportation, and land use. Planning the built environment involves integrating all aspects of human life so that an esthetic, economic, and sustainable system is established. There are challenges which arise from this, but the primary goal is to provide adequate, safe, efficient, and affordable housing for the populations. The goal is to convert chaos to order, to make cities workable, to bar bad development, to encourage the building of necessary facilities, and to improve land use.…mehr
This is a response to the need for up-to-date information about three major challenges posed by urbanization: buildings, transportation, and land use. Planning the built environment involves integrating all aspects of human life so that an esthetic, economic, and sustainable system is established. There are challenges which arise from this, but the primary goal is to provide adequate, safe, efficient, and affordable housing for the populations. The goal is to convert chaos to order, to make cities workable, to bar bad development, to encourage the building of necessary facilities, and to improve land use.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
DUANE G. LeVINE is Manager, Science and Strategy Development, Environment and Safety at Exxon Corporation. ARTHUR C. UPTON, MD is formerly Professor of Environmental Medicine, and Director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. LeVine and Upton have edited Management of Hazardous Agents: Industrial and Regulatory Approaches (Praeger, 1992), and Management of Hazardous Agents: Social, Political and Policy Aspects (Praeger, 1992).
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Foreword by Maurice F. Strong Preface by Ruth A. Eblen and William R. Eblen Introduction by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton Planning the Built Environment Affordable Housing and the Urban Environment by Kathryn Wylde Affordable by Design by Zane Yost The Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Approach by Paul S. Grogan Affordable Housing by Kerron R. Barnes Energy Consumption and Architectural Design by Richard G. Stein A Public/Private Collaborative Process for Achieving Energy Efficiency in Buildings by Earle F. Taylor, Jr. and Luisa M. Freeman Improving Urban Transportation Transportation and the Environment--Lessons from the Global Laboratory by Wilfred Owen The Auto, Land Use, and Transit by Boris Pushkarev Urban Transportation: Progress and Priorities by Mark A. Wright The Role of Rail Transit in Contemporary Cities by Vukan R. Vuchic AASHTO Transportation 2020 Program by David Clawson A Highway Designed to Be Part of the Human Environment by Matthew A. Coogan Shaping Patterns of Urban Land Use The New York Region Experiment by John P. Keith Constituting a Preservation Plan for Urban Areas by M. Christine Boyer Making Cities Safe for Trees by R. Neil Sampson Living on the Crust of the Earth: Human Ecology and Environmental Planning by Sheldon W. Samuels Conclusions by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton Bibliography Index
Foreword by Maurice F. Strong Preface by Ruth A. Eblen and William R. Eblen Introduction by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton Planning the Built Environment Affordable Housing and the Urban Environment by Kathryn Wylde Affordable by Design by Zane Yost The Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Approach by Paul S. Grogan Affordable Housing by Kerron R. Barnes Energy Consumption and Architectural Design by Richard G. Stein A Public/Private Collaborative Process for Achieving Energy Efficiency in Buildings by Earle F. Taylor, Jr. and Luisa M. Freeman Improving Urban Transportation Transportation and the Environment--Lessons from the Global Laboratory by Wilfred Owen The Auto, Land Use, and Transit by Boris Pushkarev Urban Transportation: Progress and Priorities by Mark A. Wright The Role of Rail Transit in Contemporary Cities by Vukan R. Vuchic AASHTO Transportation 2020 Program by David Clawson A Highway Designed to Be Part of the Human Environment by Matthew A. Coogan Shaping Patterns of Urban Land Use The New York Region Experiment by John P. Keith Constituting a Preservation Plan for Urban Areas by M. Christine Boyer Making Cities Safe for Trees by R. Neil Sampson Living on the Crust of the Earth: Human Ecology and Environmental Planning by Sheldon W. Samuels Conclusions by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton Bibliography Index
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