Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance

Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.

* This timely text introduces the principles and practice behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.

* Reflects a growing recognition that cities, where the majority of humans now live, need to be developed in a sustainable way.

* Weaves together the concerns of planning, capitalism, development, and cultural and environmental preservation.

* Helps students and planners to marry the needs of the environment with the need for financial gain.