Sustainable landscape planning in selected urban regions

• Other Authors: Yokohari, Makoto (Editor), Murakami, Akinobu, 1931- (Editor), Hara, Yuji (Editor), Tsuchiya, Kazuaki (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Japan : Springer, [2017]
• Series: Science for sustainable societies.
• Subjects: Sustainable urban development.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9784431564454; 9784431564447; 9784431567875; 9784431564430
• ISSN: 2197-7348
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy. It combines environmental engineering and landscape sciences perspectives on urban region issues, making the book a unique work in urban study literatures...

Table of 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.