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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162856503321

Titolo

Urban land use : community-based planning / / edited by Kim Etingoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakville, Ont. : , : Apple Academic Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-36579-0

1-77188-486-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Disciplina

307.1216

Soggetti

City planning

City planning - Health aspects

City planning - Citizen participation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Why is community-based planning important? -- part II. Citizen engagement in land-use decisions -- part III. Tools for community-based urban planning.

Sommario/riassunto

This compendium volume, Urban Land Use: Community-Based Planning, covers a range of land use planning and community engagement issues. Part I explores the connections between land use decisions and consequences for urban residents, particularly in the areas of health and health equity. The chapters in Part II provide a closer look at community land use planning practice in several case studies. Part III offers several practical and innovative tools for integrating community decisions into land use planning.