Sustainable urban form

Ebook "Spatial planning and sustainable development: Approaches for achieving sustainable urban form in Asian Cities" attempts to provide insights into the achievement of a sustainable urban form, through spatial planning and implementation; here, we focus on planning experiences at the levels of local cities and some metropolitan areas in Asian countries.

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The population residing in urban areas has been rapidly increasing, especially in the developing world, giving rise to the need for cities and urban establishments to adapt and grow with the change. Satellite cities were developed to shift the population from congested urban areas to new developments established nearby. The paper assesses five satellite cities in Hanoi to explore the potential of this form of development as a sustainable tool for planners in the 21st century.

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The paper’s objective is to clarify the physical and functional aspects of Hanoi Ancient Quarter which play key role in forming the distinct soul of historical district. It is assumed that those attributes are to make urban space to urban place, toward cultural sustainability. The theory of “place” and “cultural capital” will guide through the whole paper.

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The research forming the basis of this book was supported by the Swedish research council Formas, and is primarily based on the research project ‘Territories of Consumption – Design and Territorial Control in Urban Commercial Spaces’. The book has also benefitted from the work done as I participated in the Formas research projects ‘Contradictory Urbanism’ (with project leader professor Katarina Nylund) and the Formas/Urban-net project ‘Replacis – Retail Planning for Sustainable Cities’ (with project leader professor Teresa Barata-Salgueira)....

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My interest in urban design began in the mid 1950s with Professor McCaughan’s history of planning lectures given in the then Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool. At those lectures ‘Mac’ made it quite clear that he was a follower of Camillo Sitte, a Viennese architect whose main work dated from the last decade of the nineteenth century.

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Poverty-environment linkages take different forms in rural and urban contexts. In rural areas, critical issues relate to access to natural resources such as land, forests, or fisheries and their sustainable use. In urban zones, the poverty-environment agenda centres on questions relating to the use of natural resources such as water or air as sinks for the disposal of human and industrial wastes, and their impact on the poor.

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