Issues in Urban Sustainability Series
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Sustainable subdivision planning and design : analysis, literature review and annotated bibliography
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Urban waste management : a review of stewardship approaches
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Urban sustainability in the third world : a review of the literature
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1994-01-01)In the extensive and rapidly expanding literature addressing environment and sustainability, relatively little has been written about cities, and even less about cities in the Third World. The urban environment is an ... -
Urban policy for sustainable development : taking a wide-angle view
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1994-01-01)The scope of urban policy for sustainable development depends on one's definition of sustainability. Formulating policy in the narrow sense of the term would involve seeking to minimize the environmental impacts of human ... -
Urban drinking water quality : a survey of selected literature
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1993-01-01)Water is indispensable for all life on our planet. The quantity of water on earth is finite, amounting to approximately 1500 million cubic kilometres (Morrison, 1984). It is one of the most precious resources that we have, ... -
Sustainable development and the rural-urban fringe : a review of the literature
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1993-01-01)Sustainable development is a concept which has captured the imagination of scholars, practitioners, and politicians at all geographical scales. While Dykeman (1990a, p. 3) suggests that the sustainable development concept ... -
Sustainable uses of urban open space : a guide to the literature
(Institute of Urban Studies, 1993-01-01)The first paper is a review of the secondary literature that has been published on various subject areas related to the field of urban green space planning. In accordance with the mandate of this series-to give an overview ...