Sustainable landscape planning in selected urban regions. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Makoto Yokohari, Akinobu Murakami, Yuji Hara, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, editors.
• Editors: Yokohari, Makoto; Murakami, Akinobu, 1931-; Hara, Yuji; Tsuchiya, Kazuaki
• Contents: Foreword; Preface; The Roadmap; Part I Untangling Urban Regions: Theoretical Frameworks for Sustainable Landscape Planning; Part II Diagnosing Urban Regions: Social and Environmental Consequences of Urbanization; Part III Diagnosing Urban Regions: Rural-Urban Linkages and Sustainability Challenges; Part IV Transforming Urban Regions: Toward Regional Sustainability; Acknowledgment; Contents; Part I: Untangling Urban Regions: Theoretical Frameworks for Sustainable Landscape Planning. Chapter 1: Landscape Planning for Resilient Cities in Asia: Lessons from Integrated Rural-Urban Land Use in Japan1.1 Historical Urban and Regional Planning in Europe and Japan; 1.2 Trends Coalesce: Rural-Urban Land Use Separation in Modern Landscape Planning; 1.3 Integrated Rural and Urban Land Uses in the City: The Way Forward for Resilient Asian Cities; References; Chapter 2: The Sustainability of Extended Urban Spaces in Asia in the Twenty-First Century: Policy and Research Challenges; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Priority Research Clusters for Urban Sustainability. 2.2.1 Research Cluster 1: Understanding the Reconfiguration of EUSs2.2.2 Research Cluster 2: Understanding the Functional Integration of EUSs; 2.2.3 Research Cluster 3: Establishing the Strategic Policy Importance of Desakota Regions in Developing a Sustainable Urban D ... ; 2.2.4 Developing Policy Responses to the Challenges of Extended Urban Spaces; 2.3 Conclusion: Toward Asian Urban Futures; References; Chapter 3: Establishing A Sustainable Community Through Urban and Rural Fusion; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Strategy for an Environmental Nation in the 21st Century, and Creating Sustainable Cities. 3.3 Wide-Area Municipality Mergers and Urban-Rural Fusion3.4 Conserving Landscapes and Ecological Networks; 3.5 Local Production for Local Consumption and Urban-Rural Interaction; 3.6 Possibilities of Building Cyclical Societies Through Urban-Rural Fusion in West Java, Indonesia; 3.7 Asian Commonality and Sustainable Regional Development; References; Chapter 4: Sustainable Urban Structure and Transport Policy in the Metropolitan Region; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Sustainable Transport Strategy; 4.2.1 Objectives; Sustainable Mobility; 4.2.2 Effective Tool; Sustainable Urban Structure. 4.3 Sustainable Urban Structure4.3.1 Urban Density and Social Cost of Travel; 4.3.2 Public Transport Axis; 4.3.3 Mobility Management (MM); 4.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5: Creation of Collaborative Networks at the City-Regional Level: Two Innovative Cases in Japan; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Spatial Concept of Sustainable City Regions; 5.2.1 Three Dimensions of City-Regional Space; 5.2.1.1 Polycentric Network Structure; 5.3 Process of the Evolution of Collaborative Networks in the Polycentric City Region; 5.3.1 Case of Nagano Prefecture, Japan: Emergence of a Regional Innovation Network.
• Publisher Details: Japan : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.71; Sustainable urban development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Sustainable urban development; Environment; Sustainable Development; Urban Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9784431564454; 4431564454
• Related ISBNs: 9784431564430; 4431564438
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 27, 2017).
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