Author: Adinarayanane Ramamurthy

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Published: 2012

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Environment and the city looks at the evolution of cities in the developed and developing world, and the implications for resources consumption and environmental impacts, locally, regionally and globally. Urban areas are now habitat to over half of the world's population and also represent the most significant concentration of global environmental challenges. The range of major problems those are associated with the excessive consumption of resources; the generation of vast quantities of waste; the pollution of land, air and water; and a vast array of health and security concerns that would appear to be inevitable condition of dense urban living, in a concrete forest. The scale of problem facing cities in their attempt to become sustainable communities is considerable, and has become more severe over the past century. Cities are probably the most complex things that human beings have ever created. Urban Planning can be defined as the design and regulation of the uses of space that focus on the physical form, economic functions, and social impacts of the urban environment and on the location of different activities within it. It has been advertized as a new planning agenda, though the viewpoints regarding the meaning of sustainability are still diverse. The first is the appropriate geographical scale for action. Since 'local action' (a bottom-up perspective) is the consensus approach to practical action, and since a community can serve as the fundamental element of a hierarchical structure of an urban area, it would be appropriate to address sustainability at the scale of community development. In addition to this geographical scale, there is concern for finding an effective method to plan and manage local development in a sustainable manner. Urban growth management strategies consist of the various tools used to manage the amount, type, extent, rate, and quality of urban development. In other words, these tools can be used to manage how much growth occurs, what kind it is, where it occurs, how fast it happens, and with what impacts. Change is constant in our world and not all communities are dealing with the issues of growth. Some communities must manage the issues that derive from decline. Many communities have neighborhoods that are in decline while other parts prosper. Still, growth management strategies can be used to help those that are struggling, for instance, by concentrating investment in distressed areas. The focus of this work is to determine appropriate embryonic urban growth management strategies that can help to achieve a greater degree of community sustainability.