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"With an audience of students, policymakers, and planning practitioners in mind, this book challenges and reconstructs three traditional premises of urban planning and policymaking - the ideas of creating diversity, fostering opportunity, and growing places - in light of on-going transformation in the structure of households, government, and the economy. This thought-provoking book advocates updating policies to reflect the transformation of our population, economy, and location preferences so that our best plans for sustainability are no longer misaligned with the toolkit available for implementation"--
List of contents
1. Introduction. The challenge of equitable regional planning for neighborhoods, housing and jobs 2. The landscape of regional sustainability planning, past and present Part 1: Guiding neighborhood change in the region 3. Infill development and density 4. Planning for jobs – and life 5. The challenge of developing and sustaining mixed-income neighborhoods 6. Regional growth, gentrification, and displacement Part 2: Growing the regional economy through sustainability 7. Incentivizing businesses to help people and places 8. The power of local markets 9. The challenge of mixing uses and the secret sauce of urban industrial land Part 3: Addressing poverty, opportunity, and accessibility 10. Dispersing poverty: The nature of choice 11. Unpacking accessibility: Spatial mismatch or social networks? 12. The geography of opportunity: What is opportunity and how do we intervene in place to create access to it? 13. Conclusion. Towards a just regional sustainability planning. Appendix: Place-based, dispersal, and mobility approaches to regional equity
About the author
Karen Chapple is Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and serves as Interim Director of the Institute for Urban and Regional Development.
