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GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management - A Global Perspective (Paperback)
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GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management - A Global Perspective (Paperback)
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The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.1201/9781315146638, has been
made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. GIS is used today to better
understand and solve urban problems. GIS in Sustainable Urban
Planning and Management: A Global Perspective, explores and
illustrates the capacity that geo-information and GIS have to
inform practitioners and other participants in the processes of the
planning and management of urban regions. The first part of the
book addresses the concept of sustainable urban development, its
different frameworks, the many ways of measuring sustainability,
and its value in the urban policy arena. The second part discusses
how urban planning can shape our cities, examines various spatial
configurations of cities, the spread of activities, and the demands
placed on different functions to achieve strategic objective. It
further focuses on the recognition that urban dwellers are
increasingly under threat from natural hazards and climate change.
Written by authors with expertise on the applications of
geo-information in urban management, this book showcases the
importance of GIS in better understanding current urban challenges
and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It
illustrates through real world cases the use of GIS in analyzing
and evaluating the position of disadvantaged groups and areas in
cities and provides clear examples of applied GIS in urban
sustainability and urban resilience. The idea of sustainable
development is still very much central in the new development
agenda of the United Nations, and in that sense, it is of
particular importance for students from both the Global South and
Global North. Professionals, researchers, and students alike will
find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and
solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and
management.
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