Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development: Approaches for Achieving Sustainable Urban Form in Asian Cities

✍ Scribed by Zhen-jiang Shen, Mitsuhiko Kawakami (auth.), Mitsuhiko Kawakami, Zhen-jiang Shen, Jen-te Pai, Xiao-lu Gao, Ming Zhang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 462
• Series: Strategies for Sustainability
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book attempts to provide insights into the achievement of a sustainable urban form, through spatial planning and implementation; here, we focus on planning experiences at the levels of local cities and some metropolitan areas in Asian countries. This book investigates the impact of planning policy on spatial planning implementation, from multidisciplinary viewpoints encompassing land-use patterns, housing development, transportation, green design, and agricultural and ecological systems in the urbanization process. We seek to learn from researchers in an integrated multidisciplinary platform that reflects a variety of perspectives, such as economic development, social equality, and ecological protection, with a view to achieving a sustainable urban form.​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Overview: Spatial Planning for Achieving Sustainable Urban Forms....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Possibility of Sharing Spatial Data and Research Cooperation Within East Asia Countries....Pages 15-31
A Study on Classification of Downtown Areas Based on Small and Medium Cities in Korea....Pages 33-49
Significance and Limitations of the Support Policy for Marginal Hamlets in the Strategy of Self-sustaining Regional Sphere Development....Pages 51-67
Continuity of Relations Between Local Living Environments and the Elderly Moved to a Group Living....Pages 69-89
The Use of Indicators to Assess Urban Regeneration Performance for Climate-Friendly Urban Development: The Case of Yokohama Minato Mirai 21....Pages 91-115
Imagination and Practice of Collaborative Landscape, Ecological, and Cultural Planning in Taiwan: The Case of Taichung County and Changhua County....Pages 117-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Sustainable-Oriented Study on Conservation Planning of Cave-Dwelling Village Culture Landscape....Pages 137-153
Characteristic of Sustainable Location for Townhouse Development in Bangkok and Greater Metropolitan Area, Thailand....Pages 155-172
Modeling Housing Demand Structure: An Example of Beijing....Pages 173-187
The Role of the Knowledge Community and Transmission of Knowledge: A Case of Bicycle SMEs in Taiwan....Pages 189-212
Acceptability of Personal Mobility Vehicles to Public in Japan: Results of Social Trial in Toyota City....Pages 213-225
Urban Form, Transportation Energy Consumption, and Environment Impact Integrated Simulation: A Multi-agent Model....Pages 227-247
Mapping Walking Accessibility, Bus Availability, and Car Dependence: A Case Study of Xiamen, China....Pages 249-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Effects of Green Curtains to Improve the Living Environment....Pages 271-286
A Comparison of Green Roof Systems with Conventional Roof for the Storm Water Runoff....Pages 287-303
Evaluation and Regulation of Ecological Security When Implementing Urban Planning: Review and Suggestions for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development in China....Pages 305-321
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
An Investigation of Changes in the Urban Shadow of Beijing Metropolis Under Agricultural Structural Adjustment in China....Pages 325-338
The Spatial Planning of Agricultural Production in Beijing Toward Producing Comfortable and Beautiful Living Environment....Pages 339-352
Simplified Ecological Planning Method for Sustainable Landscape Management by Humantope Index : Patterns of Land-Use Continuity, Historical Land Use and Landownership....Pages 353-379
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Land Cover Analysis with High-Resolution Multispectral Satellite Imagery and Its Application for the CO 2 Flux Estimation....Pages 381-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Taiwan’s Five Major Metropolitan Areas of Taiwan Vulnerability Assessment of Flood Disaster Comparison Study....Pages 401-415
The Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Socioeconomic Vulnerabilities in the Historical Site of an Island City: A Case Study of a Fire Incident in Nan-Gan Township, Lien-Chiang County, Taiwan....Pages 417-429
Sustainable Communities in Hilly, Mountainous and Heavy Snowfall Areas....Pages 431-442
A Vulnerability Study from Water Perspective on the Largest City of China....Pages 443-454
Back Matter....Pages 455-459

✦ Subjects

Landscape Ecology; Sustainable Development; Human Geography; Environmental Management