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Sustainable Development and Urban Form

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There is widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is desirable. However, a particularly contentious part of the debate concerns the role of cities as consumers of energy and producers of pollution. This text examines the arguments surrounding this question.
Sustainable urban development - the political prospects; sustainable development in a regional system; communications technologies and the future of the city; environmental sustainability and land-use planning; on the sustainability of urban and regional structures; growth regions and the future of Dutch planning doctrine; the contradiction of the compact city - a review; use, transport and settlement patterns; patterns of land use in English towns - implications for energy use and carbon dioxide emissions; city transport - strategies for sustainability; depiction of local sustainability development; towards sustainability - the combined production of heat and power.
Sustainable urban development - the political prospects; sustainable development in a regional system; communications technologies and the future of the city; environmental sustainability and land-use planning; on the sustainability of urban and regional structures; growth regions and the future of Dutch planning doctrine; the contradiction of the compact city - a review; use, transport and settlement patterns; patterns of land use in English towns - implications for energy use and carbon dioxide emissions; city transport - strategies for sustainability; depiction of local sustainability development; towards sustainability - the combined production of heat and power.
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