Urban planning, also known as regional planning, town planning, city planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility. Traditionally, urban planning followed a top-down approach in master planning the physical layout of human settlements. The primary concern was the public welfare, which included considerations of efficiency, sanitation, protection and use of the environment, as well as effects of the master plans on the social and economic activities. Over time, urban planning has adopted a focus on the social and environmental bottom-lines that focus on planning as a tool to improve the health and well-being of people while maintaining sustainability standards. Sustainable development was added as one of the main goals of all planning endeavors in the late 20th century when the detrimental economic and the environmental impacts of the previous models of planning had become apparent.[citation needed]. Similarly, in the early 21st century, Jane Jacob's writings on legal and political perspectives to emphasize the interests of residents, businesses and communities effectively influenced urban planners to take into broader consideration of resident experiences and needs while planning.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (50 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter1
The Elaboration of an Intersectoral Partnership to Perform Health Impact Assessment in Urban Planning: The Experience of Quebec City (Canada)
- Chapter2
What is the role of epistemic communities in shaping local environmental policy? Managing environmental change through planning and greenspace in Fukuoka City, Japan
- Chapter3
Exploring the potential for planning support systems to bridge the research-translation gap between public health and urban planning
- Chapter4
COVID-19 and urban planning: Built environment, health, and well-being in Greek cities before and during the pandemic
- Chapter5
How COVID-19 reshaped quality of life in cities: A synthesis and implications for urban planning
- Chapter6
A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology
- Chapter7
Finding the “Heart” in the Green: Conducting a Bibliometric Analysis to Emphasize the Need for Connecting Emotions with Biophilic Urban Planning
- Chapter8
Inclusiveness of Urban Space and Tools for the Assessment of the Quality of Urban Life—A Critical Approach
- Chapter9
The Potential of Strategic Environmental Assessment to Improve Urban Planning in Sierra Leone
- Chapter10
Integrating river restoration goals with urban planning practices: the case of Kebena river, Addis Ababa
- Chapter11
Spatial relationship between land development pattern and intra-urban thermal variations in Taipei
- Chapter12
Urban Planning and Health Inequities: Looking in a Small-Scale in a City of Cape Verde
- Chapter13
Answering to the domesticability of exotic options and strategies in managing Africa’s urban landscapes for sustainability beyond 2015
- Chapter14
Combining urban scaling and polycentricity to explain socio-economic status of urban regions
- Chapter15
Urban Ecosystem Services for Resilience Planning and Management in New York City
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Urban Planning
Stéphanie Gamache
Stéphanie Gamache
Graduate School of Land Management and Regional Planning, Faculty of Planning, Architecture, Art and Design, Laval University, Québec, QC G1V 0A6
Ketan Shankardass
Ketan Shankardass
Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Alexandre Lebel
Alexandre Lebel
Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Québec, QC G1V 4G5, Canada
Leslie Mabon
Leslie Mabon
School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University, Scotland, United Kingdom
Hiroyuki Kanekiyo
Hiroyuki Kanekiyo
Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan
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