Cities and Growth: A Policy Handbook

Modern urban planning (known by its current buzzword “growth management practices”) is a hot topic right now, given the constraints of population growth, environmental concerns, and city centre vs. suburb living patterns. There are four major categories of growth management practices currently in vogue, and this book addresses all of them: “Protection” planning programmes, designed to safeguard human habitation areas from deterioration by either the natural or man‐made environment through regulations and land use techniques; “Restoration” planning programmes, focused on restoring deteriorated human habitation areas, such as inner cities; “Creation” planning programmes, involved in the establishment of new areas of...