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Land use planning made plain / by Hok-Lin Leung.

LIBRA HD108.6 .L48 2003
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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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