Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance

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

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• 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.