Towards Green Growth and Low-Carbon Urban Development

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Zhenghong Tang
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA
Wei Dong
Yunwoo Nam

Series: Urban Development and Infrastructure, Environmental Remediation Technologies, Regulations and Safety
BISAC: TEC010000

Cities face critical challenges connected to population growth, urbanization, and climate change. Fundamental transformations in urban planning, community design, and infrastructure development are absolutely needed to address the problems raised by land use changes. A series of urban development patterns must be adjusted towards green growth and low-carbon development styles. A transition from conventional urban development models to a green or low-carbon future needs to change the system of the “systems”, such as energy, water, waste, mobility, and infrastructure systems. Cities are facing huge pressure and great opportunities to make these transitions through more effective arrangement of land use development footprints.

This book introduces the significant trend of urban planning towards green growth and low-carbon development patterns and reviews the history of urban development models while illustrating key concepts underpinning theories of green growth and low-carbon development. It presents a ground-breaking analysis of the role of urban planning in the translation of green growth and low-carbon development and also provides an up-to-date discussion of current practices with a vision of new urbanism and post-modern land use planning patterns. Introduced in this book are broad concepts of urban and land use planning, and a description of practical planning approaches. The authors explain how to incorporate core “green” and “low-carbon” concepts into urban planning and community development.

Also discussed are the tools and processes necessary to develop a green and low-carbon development strategy where the major methods include energy conservation and efficiency, transportation planning, livability and walkability techniques, environmental planning, low impact community design skills, planning support systems, and public participation. A diverse range of examples, from North America, Europe, Africa, and China, are provided to analyze the barriers and solutions in socio-technical transitions emerging in different urban contexts. An international context of urban planning and a proposed model to assess future conditions, evaluate policy choices, create visions, and compare scenarios is presented. The topics in this book add to existing urban planning literature on social translations and introduce critical questions in making the translation of complex urban systems. This book can help academics, policy makers, practitioners and researchers interested in the development of green cities and low-carbon development. (Imprint: Nova)

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Creating Zero Waste Cities through Optimised Material Flow, Sustainable Design and Behaviour Change
(Steffen Lehmann, School of Art, Architecture and Design,
University of South Australia, Australia)

Chapter 2: Evaluating the Mauritian Land Use Planning Capacity Towards Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
(Dominique Desvaux-Thomas, University of Technology, La Tour Koenig, Mauritius)

Chapter 3: City Space Evolution of Dalian, China
(Wei Dong, Environmental Protection Bureau of Dalian, China)

Chapter 4: Building Sustainable Communities through Integrating Net-Zero Energy Strategies
(Olabode Alabi, Nan Zhao and Ryan Chamberlain, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA)

Chapter 5: Evolution of Low-carbon City Theory and Practice
(Ting Wei, Tsinghua University, China)

Chapter 6: Empowering Land Use Zoning Codes in Urban Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Management
(Andy Szatko, Environmental Quality Control Division, Omaha, NE, USA)

Chapter 7: Green Urbanism and Sustainable Buildings – Analysis and Perceptions
(Brad Behne, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA)

Chapter 8: Controlling Growth Smartly: An Overview of the Impact of Growth Boundaries and Greenbelts on Affordable Housing
(Rachel Jones and Yunwoo Nam, Community and Regional Planning Program
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA)

Chapter 9: Green Transportation: Bicycle Planning Efforts in Local Plans
(Christopher Hussey and Yunwoo Nam, Community and Regional Planning Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA)

Chapter 10: Utilization and Implementation of Green Infrastructure: Through GIS Based Modeling
(Ronald A. W. Marney and Yunwoo Nam, Community and Regional Planning Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA)

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