Sustainable Cities and Regions
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 127
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Sustainable Cities and Regions introduces the concept of the sustainable city and then shares examples and experiences of how to build more sustainable cities and regions. The benefits of such an approach are appended with real examples from Canada and beyond.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter Objectives
1.1 Sustainable Cities and Regions
1.2 Sustainable Development
1.3 What is city and regional planning?\
1.4 Why do cities matter?
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 2: From Settlements to Cities
Chapter Objectives
2.1 Early Settlements
2.1.1 Mesopotamia
2.2 Greek City Planning
2.3 Roman Settlements
2.4 European City Design
2.5 Medieval to Baroque
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 3: City Planning: Theory and Practice
Chapter Objectives
3.1 Patrick Geddes and Modern Planning
3.2 Ebenezer Howard: Futurist or Planner?
3.3: The ‘City Beautiful Movement’
3.4: Towers in the Park - Le Corbusier
3.5 Urban Renewal and Robert Moses
3.6 Jane Jacobs and People Power
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 4: Sustainable Urban Form and Community Design
Chapter Objectives
4.1 The Recipe for Sprawl
4.2 The Cost of Sprawl
4.3 The Alternatives to Sprawl
4.3.1 Increased density
4.3.2 Mixed Land Use Activities
4.3.3 Neighbourhood “Grid” Streets
4.3.4 Storefront Transit Stops
4.4 Sustainable Land Use and Community Design
4.5 The New Urbanism
4.6 Brownfields, Bluefields and Greyfields
4.7 Climate Change and the Built Environment
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 5: Sustainable Transportation
Chapter Objectives
5.1 Early Transportation
5.2 Pre-Conditions for Sprawl
5.3 Automobile Cities
5.4 Transportation Geography
5.5 Mobility Approach
5.6 Accessibility Approach
5.7 Conditions for Sustainable Transportation
5.8 Measuring Sustainable Transportation
5.9 Transit Oriented Development
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 6 Water and the Sustainable City
Chapter Objectives
6.1 The Hydrological Cycle
6.2 Urban Hydrology
6.3 Stormwater
6.4 Urban Water Balance
6.5 Conventional Urban Stormwater Measures
6.6 Innovation in Stormwater Management
6.7 Nature-based Solutions
6.8 Wastewater Management
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 7: Urban Food Security
Chapter Objectives
7.1 Food Insecurity
7.2 Solutions to Food Insecurity
7.3 Food Production in History
7.4 Building Food Security
7.5 Benefits of Urban Food Security
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 8: The Sustainable Region: Challenges and Opportunities
Chapter Objectives
8.1 Types of Regions
8.2 Sustainable Urban Regions
8.3 Regional Governance
8.4 Growth Management
8.5 Regional Planning Goals
8.6 Bioregional Thinking
8.7 Regions as Ecosystems
8.8 Shared Infrastructure
8.9 Regional Transportation
8.10 Sense of Place
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Chapter 9: Tools for Sustainable Cities and Regions
Chapter Objectives
9.1 Why do cities matter?
9.2 Tools for Sustainable Cities
9.3 Setting a Planning Vision
9.4 Community Capital Framework
9.5 Community Capital Inventory
9.6 Targets and Indicators
9.7 Patterns of Development
9.8 Seven Principles for Building Better Cities and Regions
9.9 The post COVID-19 city
Chapter Summary
Chapter Questions
Dr. Robert Patrick is Associate Professor of Geography and Planning and member of the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan. Bob worked as a regional planner with the Sunshine Coast Regional District in British Columbia for over a decade prior to joining the University of Saskatchewan. Internationally, Bob has worked in Peru and Australia in the areas of integrated water resource management and regional planning. Bob teaches watershed planning and sustainable community development to undergraduate and graduate students. His community-based research involves the protection of drinking water sources through watershed planning with Indigenous communities across western Canada. His current projects include collaboration on source water protection plans and community-based adaptation strategies with Indigenous communities in response to local and regional climate change impacts.