planning policiesurban designThe South Australian Government is creating plans, policies, and strategies (PPS) that are preferencing infill development. While there are benefits to infill development, if scientific evidence is not adequately incorporated into these PPS, they can elevate urban temperatures...
There are however green patches on the fringes (particularly in the far north and far south), perhaps again reflecting planning policies forcing up densities.Sydney is really quite a different city compared to the rest of Australia, with a much larger share of the population living in high dens...
Informality is increasingly seen as a key feature ofurban planning and developmentin many cities of the Global South. Looking at two earthquake-affected cities, Bhuj in India and Bam in Iran, this chapter seeks to address the question of how informality played a role in the transformation of ...
Historiography of urban planning in the South has been hindered by the erroneous assumption that the region did not take the city development process seriously until the post-World War II period. Recent additions to the urban literature of the New South suggest, however, that its planning legacy...
first seminal work had appeared,Aerial Photographyin Urban Planning and Research, by Melville C. Branch, who had trained as a photointerpreter in the US Navy. In Australia, World War II had demonstrated the vulnerability of the poorly populated northern part of the country. The war was followed...
Part Seven of the book looks at the growth area of South Sydney District, which includes the suburbs of Beaconsfield, Zetland and the new localities of Victoria Park and Green Square. The authors recount lessons learned and outline directions of planning for sustainable neighborhoods. Finally, the...
In what follows, I want to sketch a profile on the challenges pertaining to GIS Education and Training, more specifically affecting the use of GIS by the Urban and Regional Planning profession in South-Africa. This paper is based on rese... Hester J.W Marais - Asian Conference on Remote ...
Natural and biophilic elements need to be central in everything and anything we design and build, from schools and hospitals to neighborhoods and urban blocks, to street systems and larger urban- and regional-scale design and planning. The discussion in
Land and Resource Planning and Indigenous Interests: Reproducing or transforming the social relations of resource use This chapter concerns the planning and policy processes that surrounded the approval and development of a large zinc mine, Century, in northern Australia (see Map 1). On one level ...
design and planning considerations. To support the case, three distinct LCZs (open low-rise, compact low-rise, and mid-rise) are examined and discussed. The KMA area is mainly characterized by compact high-density urban built environment with concreteroad pavements, a high percentage of mid-ris...