Green Belt, Green Fields and the Urban Fringe
Author: Lesley Grayson
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 130
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Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century
Author: Peter Bishop
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1787358844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe green belt has been one of the UK’s most consistent and successful planning policies. Over the past century, it has limited urban sprawl and preserved the countryside around our cities, but is it still fit for purpose in a world of unprecedented urban growth and potentially catastrophic climate change? Repurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century examines the history of the green belt in the UK and how it has influenced planning regimes in other countries. Despite its undoubted achievements, it is time to review the green belt as an instrument of urban planning and landscape design. The problem of the ecological impact of cities and the mitigation measures of major climate changes are at the top of the urban agenda across the world. Urban agriculture, blue and green infrastructures, and forestation are the new ecological design imperatives driving urban policymaking.
Planning on the Edge
Author: Nick Gallent
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1134185952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than a tenth of the land mass of the UK comprises 'urban fringe': the countryside around towns that has been called 'planning's last frontier'. One of the key challenges facing spatial planners is the land-use management of this area, regarded by many as fit only for locating sewage works, essential service functions and other un-neighbourly uses. However, to others it is a dynamic area where a range of urban and rural uses collide. Planning on the Edge fills an important gap in the literature, examining in detail the challenges that planning faces in this no-man’s land. It presents both problems and solutions, and builds a vision for the urban fringe that is concerned with maximising its potential and with bridging the physical and cultural rift between town and country. Its findings are presented in three sections: the urban fringe and the principles underpinning its management sectoral challenges faced at the urban fringe (including commerce, energy, recreation, farming, and housing) managing the urban fringe more effectively in the future. Students, professionals and researchers alike will benefit from the book's structured approach, while the global and transferable nature of the principles and ideas underpinning the study will appeal to an international audience.
Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields
Author: David Nichols
Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 1921775076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The conference explores past and future approaches to managing and designing for growth, development and decline. This goes beyond debates over density, frontier development and renewal. It includes new fields of historical, policy and social research which inform discussion of heritage, growth, environmental, economic and other issues of urban life and urban form."--Page iii
Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Marco Amati
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-11
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1317003810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlanners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century. As yet, no collection has gathered these experiences together to consider their contribution to planning. Juxtaposing examples of green belt implementation worldwide, this book adds to understanding of how green belts can be effected in theory and how practitioners have adapted them in practice. The book provides a typology of green belt implementation and reform, enabling planners to grasp why these policies are employed and whether they are relevant to twenty-first century planning.
Changing Settlements
Author: Garrett Nagle
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780174900214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the changing aspects of settlement and urbanization in the modern world, particularly in Great Britain. Suggested level: senior secondary.
A Countryside For All
Author: Michael Sissons
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-08-31
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1446499766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rural fuse has been lit. The countryside is tinder-dry. Post offices and banks, shops and schools are closing. Farmers are going out of business. Houses are becoming unaffordable as prices soar ad poverty grows. Pollution and over-exploitation are destroying landscapes. Many rural communities are on the verge of collapse. Some fear the foot- and - mouth crisis will prove to be the last straw. This book offers disturbing evidence of the background to the crisis. A Countryside For All is a rallying cry for action, pointing ways towards a presciption for the future. This volume tackles many of the issues in a variety of new and original ways. Possibly the most controversial and radical call is for the creation of a Department for the Countryside, with a Secretary of State for the Countryside- who would be responsible for setting a coherent set of policies to reverse the decline of rural Britain. This timely book outlines the main problems facing the countryside, and starts to bring together a balanced range of proposals. Thought-provoking, filled with common sense, often controversial but always fascinating, it points the way forward for the countryside, and for town and country as a whole.
Planning and Urban Change
Author: Stephen Victor Ward
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2004-03-08
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780761943181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning. Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban planning history as the development of theoretical approaches: from radical and utopian beginnings, to the `new right' thinking of the 1980s, and recent interest in green thought and sustainability; policies - urban planning history as an intensely political process, the text explains the complicated relation between planning theory and political practice; and impacts - urban planning history as the divergence of expectation and outcome, each chapter shows how intended impacts have been modified by economic and social forces. This Second Edition features an entirely new chapter on the key policy changes that have occurred under the Major and Blair governments, together with a critical review of current policy trends.
The Urban World
Author: M. E. Witherick
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780748744190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntended for students of A-Level geography, this book on the urban world offers a wide range of case studies and an integated approach to all aspect of geographical study. Students are helped to progress from GCSE and Standard Grade as they work through the questions that appear at regular intervals in the book and the enquiry activities at the end of each chapter. One of a series of books, this title also provides exam support.
Ecology, Planning, and Management of Urban Forests
Author: Margaret M. Carreiro
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-10-31
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 0387714251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrees and vegetation in cities aren’t just there to make the place look pretty. They have an important ecological function. This book contains studies and perspectives on urban forests from a broad array of basic and applied scientific disciplines including ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, landscape ecology, plant community ecology, geography, and social science. The book includes contributions from experts around the world, allowing the reader to evaluate methods and management that are appropriate for particular geographic, environmental, and socio-political contexts.
