Overview: Spatial Planning for Achieving Sustainable Urban Forms
In this chapter, as an introduction and summary of this book, we will summarize its key contributions regarding the role of public actors in the implementation of spatial planning. We will introduce each chapter, showing how it will contribute to the book
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Overview: Spatial Planning for Achieving Sustainable Urban Forms Zhen-jiang Shen and Mitsuhiko Kawakami
Abstract In this chapter, as an introduction and summary of this book, we will summarize its key contributions regarding the role of public actors in the implementation of spatial planning. We will introduce each chapter, showing how it will contribute to the book’s main conclusions. Keywords Asian cities • Urbanization • Housing • Transportation • Agriculture • Ecological system • Urban vulnerability
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This book presents some case studies regarding spatial planning in pursuing sustainable urban form, based on existing concepts of sustainable urban form in the planning practice of various Asian countries. We discuss a matrix of practice examples from a multidisciplinary perspective, including land-use patterns, housing development, transportation, green design, and agricultural and ecological systems to help readers assess the contribution of this book on the achievement of a sustainable urban form while avoiding the vulnerability of the urban system. Regarding sustainable urban form, many definitions and discussions already exist in the vast body of literature. Jabareen (2006) has presented seven design concepts related to sustainable urban forms: compactness, sustainable transport, density, mixed land uses, diversity, passive solar design (energy saving), and greening. Moreover, there are four types of sustainable urban forms: neo-traditional development (Furuseth 1997), urban containment (Dawkins and Nelson 2002),
Z.-j. Shen (*) • M. Kawakami School of Environmental Design, Kanazawa University, Kakuma Machi, Kanazawa City 920-1192, Japan e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] M. Kawakami et al. (eds.), Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development: Approaches for Achieving Sustainable Urban Form in Asian Cities, Strategies for Sustainability, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-5922-0_1, # Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
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compact city (Jenks et al. 2000), and eco-city (Roseland 1997). All of these concepts were originally proposed by researchers in the developed countries of Europe and North America. In this book, instead of discussing the definitions of and differences between those concepts, we argue that this collection of seemingly unrelated case studies about housing, industry, transportation, landscape, ecological environment, and urban vulnerability all contribute to an examination of the “sustainable urban form” in Asian countries and territories. Usually, spatial planning is considered as a tool for driving the planning policies at regional and national levels (Faludi 2009). In this book, we use “planning policies” to refer broadly to government actions in the process of planning and implementation. At the national level, in order to find a sustainable urban form during the developing period in the urbanization process, many developing Asian cities nowadays are learning from the experiences of European countries. However,
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