Top Research Papers on Urban Planning

Cities ultimately are human-made environments. It is this very feature of cities that makes them an appealing target for population health inquiry. That they have been created means that they can also be modified and improved to the end of improving the health of their resident populations. Urban planning is concerned with the development and use of land in urban environments and, in this context, can play a central role in how we may think about optimizing urban environments to improve health. This chapter introduces an urban planning perspective on urban health, discussing how a formal urban...

European cities informed some unusual thinking for Honda’s first ground-up electric vehicle platform, which is looking to transform the landscape for urban-going EVs

1. A cluster of introductory courses reviewing urban problems and solutions for freshmen and sophomores, and introducing urban planning to upper-level undergraduates. 2. A cluster presenting the planning process in a general urban context. 3. A group of upper-level courses that introduce more specialized aspects of planning in contexts ranging from neighborhoods, through suburbs, to new towns and planned communities; and approaches from fiscal planning to environmental issues.

This chapter discusses the symbiotic relationship between urban planning and public health, examines the features of healthy and sustainable urban environments, provides positive examples of healthy urban planning and the blocks to conducting such planning. Consideration is given to how urban planning can contain sprawl and can create cites that rely more on public transportation, cycling, and walking. Examples of good practice from New York, Zurich, and Bursa (Turkey) are provided. Issues of governance, including public participation in planning and the importance of visionary leadership, are...

The textbook outlines the scientific and methodological foundations and provides practical recommendations on the design, formation and development of modern cities and settlement systems. The materials included in the manual are based on an analysis of current trends in urban transformation and development, the best buildings of world leaders in architecture and urban planning in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, China, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. It contains a large number of examples and original photographs. Meets the requirem...

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1. A cluster of introductory courses reviewing urban problems and solutions for freshmen and sophomores, and introducing urban planning to upper-level undergraduates. 2. A cluster presenting the planning process in a general urban context. 3. A group of upper-level courses that introduce more specialized aspects of planning in contexts ranging from neighborhoods, through suburbs, to new towns and planned communities; and approaches from fiscal planning to environmental issues.

Planners in the metropolitan institution must consider its special and vital relationship with the urban milieu and especially with nontraditional students.

The relationship between the urban planning and others such as management, sociality, economy and environment, and the connection between some fields and the opportunity of respecting to deal with several majors in the same time are discussed.

Prepared by the Task Committee to Prepare a Planning Guide of the Urban Planning and Development Division of ASCE.

The manual covers the following topics: Commercial land planning, Industrial land planning, Community facilities planning, Transportation planning, Capital improvement programs and financing, and Plan implementation.

U sveucilisnom udžbeniku Uvod u urbanizam objavljenom u nizu Manualia Universitatis studiorum Zagrabiensis Ivan Mlinar tekstom popracenim brojnim ilustracijama pregledno i jasno prikazuje osnovne teme urbanisticke teorije i prakse nužne za razumijevanje i pracenje urbanizma. Osnovni sadržaj udžbenika podijeljen je u tri tematske cjeline, od kojih se prva bavi povijesnim i teoretskim, druga zakonodavnim i tehnickim, a treca prakticnim urbanistickim temama. Sadržaj, opseg i oprema udžbenika uvodi, educira, intrigira i u konacnici potice citatelja na daljnja istraživanja urbanistickih tema i njih...

Before we discuss the plan, planning, urban and regional planning, we will discuss the origin of human settlements.

Realizace ve spolupraci s organizaci Frank Bold, ktera se zabýva kromě jineho pravem životniho prostředi. V prvni casti workshopu se studenti seznami s legislativou problematiky uzemniho planovani a procesu EIA a s možnostmi a postupy zasahovani veřejnosti. Druha cast seminaře proběhne formou hry, kdy budou studenti rozděleni do několika zajmových skupin (rodiny, developeři, zastupci obce) vcetně zastupců environmentalně založeneho obcanskeho sdruženi, prostřednictvim ktereho budou obcane hajit sve zajmy. Výstupem workshopu bude tedy ziskani znalosti a osvojeni praktických dovednosti postupů v...

A fundamentally new approach to understanding and developing new principles of city life that regulate the biosphere compatibility of cities and the development of human capital as the main criteria for the effectiveness of territorial planning, construction and operation of urban facilities.

It is claimed that £20,000 is to be paid in damages for each violation of the code of conduct of the European Court of Justice over the past 12 months.

Notes on discussions at Urban Planning Seminar at Syracuse University covering urban planning in general, urban land planning, relation between land and transportation planning, industrial land planning and regulation, planning residential areas and local community facilities, regulatory devices to guide land use and development in urban communities and positive means of effective land development.

Urban planning is the initial phase of urban development. Private planning is coordinated with public planning, because private planning takes into account social and economic factors. Planning operations are grouped according to main concern. Principal groups and sequence of considerations within and between groups indicate the planning process. These groups include the following: (1) General surveys and research that provide physical and economic bases; (2) environmental considerations that relate physical and man-made conditions to human health, and relate environmental improvement and cont...

DATA COLLECTED BY HIGHWAY PLANNING SURVEYS IN MICHIGAN WERE IMPORTANT IN REACHING VITAL DECISIONS RELATIVE TO RURAL HIGHWAY PLANNING. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT HIGHWAY PLANNING SURVEYS MUST BE USED FOR THE MORE COMPLEX URBAN CONDITIONS INVOLVED IN URBAN HIGHWAY PLANNING. THROUGH THE USE OF HIGHWAY PLANNING SURVEY DATA FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES, THE DEPARTMENT RECOGNIZED THE NEED FOR A STUDY OF HIGHWAY NEEDS AND FINANCES. ORIGIN-DESTINATION TRAFFIC SURVEYS ARE ONE OF THE USEFUL TOOLS. EACH URBAN TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM IS PRIMARILY A LOCAL PROBLEM THAT CAN BE SOLVED MOST SATISFACTORILY BY LOCAL ADM...

Designed to accompany a guide to urban planning law which analyzes and solves the issues which confront private practitioners and local authority lawyers, this supplement reports recent changes and brings the first edition completely up to date.