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Land use planning made plain / by Hok-Lin Leung.
LIBRA HD108.6 .L48 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leung, Hok Lin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--Planning--Textbooks.
- Land use.
- City planning--Textbooks.
- City planning.
- Land use--Planning.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Why Plan? 1
- Land Use and Land Use Planning 3
- Public Interest Elements in Planning 5
- The Actors in Land Use Planning 14
- The Debate about the Mandate of Land Use Planning 17
- Physical Planning 17
- Positive Planning 18
- Comprehensive Planning 19
- Chapter 2 A Plan for Planning 21
- Chapter 3 Purpose 29
- Problem Identification 29
- Goals and Objective 31
- Participation 32
- Chapter 4 Information 35
- Planning Area 35
- Information Categories 38
- The User 39
- Population 39
- User Needs 50
- Households 50
- Firms 54
- Institutions 56
- User Surveys 57
- Land Information 59
- Environmental Attributes 59
- Development Attributes 62
- Transportation Information 70
- Vehicular Traffic 70
- Transit 73
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic 76
- Infrastructure Information 77
- Water Supply 78
- Wastewater 78
- Storm Water 79
- Guidance Systems 80
- Maps and Geographic Information Systems 81
- Geographic Information Systems 84
- Chapter 5 Analysis 89
- Analytic Approaches 89
- Planning Standards 91
- Open Space 93
- Residential Use 98
- Neighbourhood 98
- Housing 104
- Residential Density 112
- Allocating Residential Land 116
- Other Land Uses in a Residential Community 117
- Industrial Use 120
- Retail and Commercial Uses 124
- Siting 127
- Sizing 130
- Community Facilities 132
- Mixed Uses 133
- Land Supply 135
- Vacant Land 135
- Brownfields 139
- Transportation 140
- Roads and Traffic 142
- Transit (and Transit Node Development) 150
- Pedestrians and Cyclists 153
- Telecommuting and Teleshopping 155
- New Directions 156
- Other Infrastructure 159
- Water Supply 159
- Wastewater 160
- Storm Water 162
- Chapter 6 Synthesis 167
- The Good City 169
- The Modernists 169
- New Urbanism 176
- Ecological Perspectives 180
- Other Approaches - Multiculturalism and Feminist Perspectives 184
- A Concluding Remark 187
- The Dynamics of Ideal Environs 187
- Strategic Choices 189
- Urban Texture 189
- Siting Priorities 194
- Separation Versus Mixing 195
- Redevelopment Versus Rehabilitation 196
- Demand Management or Capacity Expansion 199
- The Intelligent and Creative Planner 201
- Plan Evaluation 203
- Goal-Explicit Techniques 203
- Goal-Implicit Techniques 204
- Conflict Resolution 207
- Graphics 208
- Typical Contents of a Land Use Plan 210
- Chapter 7 Implementation (Control-Oriented) 213
- Development Control in the United States 214
- Zoning Regulations 217
- Zoning Procedures 221
- Zoning Variations 223
- Development Control in Canada 226
- Development Control in Practice 227
- Administrative Issues 230
- Chapter 8 Implementation (Action-Oriented) 235
- Capital Works Programming 235
- Land Acquisition and Assembly 237
- Development Corporations and Public-Private Partnerships 240
- Community Improvement 242
- Development Fees 244
- Chapter 9 The Land Use Planner 249
- Who is the Land Use Planner? 250
- Planning Education 252
- Planning Beliefs 257
- Planners and City Future 259.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-279) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0802085520
- OCLC:
- 50843954
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