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This is a response to the need for up-to-date information about three major challenges posed by urbanization: buildings, transportation, and land use. Planning the built environment involves integrating all aspects of human life so that an esthetic, economic, and sustainable system is established. There are challenges which arise from this, but the primary goal is to provide adequate, safe, efficient, and affordable housing for the populations. The goal is to convert chaos to order, to make cities workable, to bar bad development, to encourage the building of necessary facilities, and to improve land use.
List of contents
Foreword by Maurice F. Strong
Preface by Ruth A. Eblen and William R. Eblen
Introduction by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton
Planning the Built EnvironmentAffordable Housing and the Urban Environment by Kathryn Wylde
Affordable by Design by Zane Yost
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Approach by Paul S. Grogan
Affordable Housing by Kerron R. Barnes
Energy Consumption and Architectural Design by Richard G. Stein
A Public/Private Collaborative Process for Achieving Energy Efficiency in Buildings by Earle F. Taylor, Jr. and Luisa M. Freeman
Improving Urban TransportationTransportation and the Environment--Lessons from the Global Laboratory by Wilfred Owen
The Auto, Land Use, and Transit by Boris Pushkarev
Urban Transportation: Progress and Priorities by Mark A. Wright
The Role of Rail Transit in Contemporary Cities by Vukan R. Vuchic
AASHTO Transportation 2020 Program by David Clawson
A Highway Designed to Be Part of the Human Environment by Matthew A. Coogan
Shaping Patterns of Urban Land UseThe New York Region Experiment by John P. Keith
Constituting a Preservation Plan for Urban Areas by M. Christine Boyer
Making Cities Safe for Trees by R. Neil Sampson
Living on the Crust of the Earth: Human Ecology and Environmental Planning by Sheldon W. Samuels
Conclusions by Duane G. LeVine and Arthur C. Upton
Bibliography
Index
About the author
DUANE G. LeVINE is Manager, Science and Strategy Development, Environment and Safety at Exxon Corporation.
ARTHUR C. UPTON, MD is formerly Professor of Environmental Medicine, and Director of the Institute of Environmental Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. LeVine and Upton have edited
Management of Hazardous Agents: Industrial and Regulatory Approaches (Praeger, 1992), and
Management of Hazardous Agents: Social, Political and Policy Aspects (Praeger, 1992).
