Environmental planning for site development : a manual for sustainable local planning and design /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London : New York :
E & FN Spon,
[2000]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1 Site Planning 1
- What does sustainable site planning entail? 3
- Why site planning is multi-disciplinary 8
- Site planning team 9
- Site planning process summarized 13
- 2 Environmental planning related to site planning 18
- Evolution of site planning 24
- Identifying key issues 29
- Part 2 Site Inventory 33
- 3 An introduction to making a site inventory 35
- Solving local land-use problems 35
- Information gathering 36
- Carrying out the project work 38
- 4 Physical environment 40
- Geology, geomorphology and site planning 40
- Geological problems and the development of a site 41
- Geomorphological factors and the development of a site: some indicators 51
- Surface water and site planning 57
- Surface water and the development of a site 59
- Recording the topography 64
- Local climate and the sustainable development of a site 66
- Carrying out the project work 90
- 5 Natural environment 92
- Natural environment and site planning 92
- Soils and plants 94
- Soils: their influence on site planning 95
- Vegetation and site planning 104
- Plants: their influence on site planning 109
- Ecological value and site planning 117
- Carrying out the project work 118
- 6 Aspects of the social environment: land use, land management and landscape 120
- Built environment land uses 121
- Rural or urban fringe land uses 125
- People living in and around the project area 127
- Past land use and historic features 129
- Land ownership and planning controls 131
- Landmarks 132
- Landscape 133
- Landscape types and their maintenance and management 134
- Views 138
- Site planning in essence 139
- Carrying out the project work 140
- Part 3 Spaces For People 141
- 7 Environmental settings and the quality of life 143
- Environmental settings 143
- How people experience environments 147
- Site planning and human environmental preference 157
- Human adaptability 160
- Nature and 'green' in life and in cities 164
- 8 User requirements 176
- Public participation 177
- Drawing up a user brief 178
- User satisfaction 181
- Range of settings 189
- Main characteristics of a place 201
- Preparing briefs for environmental settings 204
- Carrying out the project work 210
- Part 4 Site Plan 213
- 9 Exploring site potential 215
- Assessing the site's potential 216
- Carrying out the project work 229
- 10 Production of the site plan 230
- Financial aspects of site planning 231
- Stages of preparing a site plan 233
- Carrying out the project work 244
- Planning for the future 244
- 11 Case study of Fort Park 246
- Part 5 Sustainable Urban Environmental Planning 257
- An illustration of the community environmental planning process / Anne R. Beer 259
- Vital role of local people in planning and implementing a more sustainable future 260
- Stocksbridge Case Study 261
- 12 Environmental Inventory, and assessing the implications of the findings for sustainable local communities 264
- Physical environment: abiotic data collection 264
- Natural environment: biotic data collection 275
- Social, cultural and economic inventory: people, land use and landscape 281
- 13 A Community Environmental Plan - interpreting the data to develop an approach to Local Agenda 21 288
- Content of a Community Environmental Plan 288
- Identifying local problems in relation to environmental sustainability 289
- Local policies and their implementation 298
- 14 Neighbourhood environmental sustainability 'actions' - implementing Local Agenda 21 303
- Opportunities to involve a local community 304
- Increasing tree cover through local 'actions' 306
- Community preference and involvement 307
- An illustration of site planning processes for an urban site / Catherine Higgins 308
- 15 Techniques for gathering and presentingt site and user data 309
- Site planning project area 309
- Site planning team 310
- Client's brief and its evaluation by the team 310
- Site and user information 311
- 16 Techniques for evaluating site potential 328
- What is site potential? 328
- Analytical and creative techniques 329
- Site potential - integration 333
- 17 Creating a site plan 334
- Strategies for the site 334
- Developing the site plan 335
- Uses of the site plan for future planning and design 340.