"Urban Planning and Multiple Preference Schedules: On R.M. Hare's 'Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning'"
Roger Paden presents a critical analysis of Hare’s article “Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning.”
Roger Paden presents a critical analysis of Hare’s article “Contrasting Methods in Environmental Planning.”
In this study the authors offer an analysis of the socio-ecological transformation of Matadepera, a wealthy suburb of metropolitan Barcelona that evolved out of a rural village inhabited by poor peasants who farmed rain-fed cropland and managed the forest.
Environmental building in Australia as a form of communing with nature.
Vanesa Castán Broto critiques sustainable development agendas that approach green cities as merely engines of economic growth.
Charles Hoch, Professor Emeritus of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois, talks about the challenges of regional planning in the United States. As opposed to Europe where spatial planning prevails, the notion of urban planning is more dominant here, and Hoch uses the Chicago region as a case study.
Belinda Yuen, a town planner and expert in mass housing, presents an account of Singapore’s public housing, the evolution of concepts and strategies for high-rise urban planning, and the diverse common spaces that have been designed for a higher quality of life.
This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.