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Addressing Articles 12 Features of Sustainable
Community Development: Residential Street Pattern
Design for Healthy Liveable Communities Development
Charges: A Lost Opportunity Eco-City Activists
Vie for Turn-Around A Whole Systems
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Conventional land use planning is based on the analysis of past growth trends and the assumption that these trends must be accommodated in the future through expansion of the urban boundary and the creation of whatever infrastructure will be necessary to support growth. Innovative approaches to urban planning place the continuity of ecosystem functions (rather than social trends) in the planning foreground and set growth and development goals accordingly. Articles relating to the use of carrying capacity analysis, growth management, and an ecosystem approach to planning are welcome in this section of the Agenda.
Furthermore, conventional planning is usually restricted to land use issues and ignores important links to other planning processes, most importantly, environmental assessment, and economic and social planning. The result is the creation of cities whose physical development patterns are out of whack with changing environmental, economic, and social conditions. The integration of the various planning fields is a major challenge to practitioners and reports on progress made would be widely appreciated.
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