Planning The Total Landscape

A Guide To Intelligent Land Use

Julius Fabos

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780367298463
• eBook ISBN: 9781000304367
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Rapid changes in land use, especially in growing metropolitan areas, have created problems that increasingly indicate an urgent need for techniques and procedures for making intelligent land-use decisions. This book identifies the potential undesirable effects of land-use changes and provides techniques for estimating and minimizing them. Based on several years of research conducted by a team of thirty-four faculty and assistants, the study shows how planners and decision makers can benefit from such contemporary planning tools as remote sensing, statistical analysis, and computer technology, as well as a variety of evaluation procedures. Part 1 describes the problems of contemporary urbanization and offers a set of planning principles and tools for working with the environmental landscape. These principles and tools are the basis of the procedures detailed in Part 2; the assessment procedures, in turn, are an essential part of the two current planning approaches—the holistic, landscape approach and the parametric approach—described in Part 3.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• PART 1 THE EMERGENCE OF LANDSCAPE CONCERN AND PLANNING TECHNIQUES
• PART 2 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES
• PART 3 SYNTHESIS
• Index