Urban Land Use Planning

by Philip R. Berke, David R. Godschalk, Edward J. Kaiser

Divided into three sections, this edition of Urban Land Use Planning deftly balances an authoritative, up-to-date discussion of current practices with a vision of what land use planning should become. It explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders; it explains how to build planning support systems to assess future conditions, evaluate policy choices, create visions, and compare scenarios; and it sets forth a methodology for creating plans that will influence future land use change. Discussions new to the fifth edition include how to incorporate the three Es of sustainable development (economy, environment, and equity) into sustainable communities, methods for including livability objectives and techniques, the integration of transportation and land use, the use of digital media in planning support systems, and collective urban design based on analysis and public participation.

Genres: Urban Planning, Cities, Reference

504 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Masoud · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a useful book to all urban planners and students .

[Alex Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a pretty straightforward text, although in this edition, it seems like the emphasis is on sustainability.

The authors provide an approach for urban land use planning -- separated out via the levels of planning (scope, such as regional, or neighborhood) and also by goal and division so as to incorporate community and political input.

Because there are often many different stakeholders with competing views, this particular topic is often contentious with NIMBYs and YIMBYS, developers and politicians and others who want to use this process to promote their results. The fact is, the process of planning, while technocratic in nature (utilizing policy and finance to instrumentalize a goal), the method reflects our contemporaneous balance of government, public and private interests with, ideally, no one party having all the benefits.

This book is a good introductory text, providing clear case examples, all of which stem from the economic, environmental, transportation views so that overall the end result is one that can maintain its ecological/environmental/economic balance for decades to come without the neighborhood, environment or community devolving into a place no one wants to be in.

Of the course the process is not clear, so thoroughness of procedure is the way to go, with long, short and mid term views and reports being the seed for deciding the appropriate plans.

[Mengyu Gao · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great to intro to Urban Planning. The text is dry itself, but the sketches help a lot.

[Kevin]

this book is a great tool for land use planning, but the accompanying workbook and "hypocity" exercises were completely worthless and lacked practical application. it would be much better if the workbook were modeled around an actual city instead of a fake one.

[A.Maya Purnamasari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Buku wajib.. Dari jaman kuliah Tata Guna Lahan, Land Development sampe ntar masuk IAP.. hahaha....

[Annette · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book is suck.

[Khaerunnisaa Ashadi · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a useful book to all urban planners and students