Bücher der Reihe Urban Planning and Environment

Originally published in 1997, this text provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. This second edition is fully revised and updated.

This book includes overviews of the planning systems in the five Nordic countries drawing attention to their increasing focus on sustainability. A leading team of scholars from the fields of planning, urban design, architecture, landscape, economics explore how the notion of sustainability has shaped planning research in the Nordic countries.

This book addresses the relationship between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. The book will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students in the fields of planning, transport and geography.

This book examines not only how instruments of land policy are used to tackle the complex distribution of property rights, but also how they can be strategically used to manage the scarcity of land.