Sustaining Cities: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design

by Josef Leitmann

Meet the "brown agenda" challenge of fast-growing cities. Planning and development professionals who need to cope with the problems of increasing urbanization will find practical tools in Joseph Leitmann's Sustaining Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design. This unique reference explores the highest priority problems -sanitation and drainage, solid waste management, degradation of environmentally sensitive land, uncontrolled emissions, accidents linked to congestion, and improper disposal of hazardous waste, problems that result in poor health, lower productivity, reduced income and quality of life. It's the first book to give you realistic, innovative, in-depth options that you can use on a day-to-day basis, with examples from many parts of the world. You get a proven planning framework and strategic approach for addressing the environmental issues confronting and caused by cities, and resources you can turn to for more help, information, and training.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published July 27, 1999

Reviews

[Erik Porse]

A useful book, it provides good background and historical perspective on urban environmental thinking. It is written from an international perspective, stemming from the author’s background at the World Bank. As such, it delves far into plans and policy agendas for urban planners and policy makers, but it has a refreshing inclusion of the issues of cities in lesser-industrialized countries, if you are not familiar. The best part is the historical and cultural perspective to ecology in cities.