Planning The Total Landscape: A Guide To Intelligent Land Use - Softcover

Fabos, Julius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367298465 ISBN 13: 9780367298463

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Julius Gy. Fabos, professor of landscape planning and director of the program in regional planning at the University of Massachusetts, received a masters degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in resource planning and conservation from the University of Michigan. Dr. Fabos is also visiting professor at the Centre for Environmental Studies in Parkville, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367298465
• ISBN 13: 9780367298463
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202