Moving Toward Sustainability: Transforming a Comprehensive Land Use and Transportation Plan

Author(s):  
Eric Lindquist

Sustainability and sustainable development have been, perhaps, the most debated yet least applied concepts in urban and regional planning in recent years. Missing in all the rhetoric on and research into sustainable development are guidelines for moving toward plans that, either incrementally or comprehensively, incorporate sustainable objectives and the steps necessary to implement them. An approach is outlined for developing measures and steps to transform a traditional community-based comprehensive land use and transportation plan into one incorporating sustainable development objectives and measures. Traditional objectives of comprehensive land use and transportation planning are identified and linked to their sustainability equivalents. Four elements are discussed: land use, transportation, environmental factors, and economic development. A four-step, dynamic process is described for implementing the model and transforming the plan objectives, its implementation, and its measures of success. A tool for strategically assessing the political climate for change is included to assist planners in identifying an acceptable scale of movement toward sustainability. In conclusion, the elements presented provide a strategy and tools for moving forward in adopting sustainability as a local objective for land use and transportation planning.

2019 ◽  

This volume presents a summary of the latest academic conference on urban and regional planning which took place at the Technical University in Berlin. The conference addressed current demands on the project-related binding land-use plan, the preparations for the plan and its legal requirements. Since the implementation of this type of plan after German Reunification, its impact on municipal development has risen. This book focuses on the specifications of this type of plan, its contract design, regulations with regard to environmental assessment as well as the project developer’s liabilities. Furthermore, it discusses the plan’s similarities and differences to other common binding land-use plans. With contributions by Dipl. sc. pol. Univ. Matthias Simon, LL.M., Prof. Dr. Arno Bunzel, Dr. Gernot Schiller, Prof. Dr. jur. Christian-W. Otto, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Stephan Mitschang, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Söfker, Dr. Joachim Tepperwien, Dr.-Ing. Tim Schwarz, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ulrich Battis, Dipl.-Ing. Arch.in and Städtebauarchitektin Anne Luise Müller, Dr. Matthias Blessing


Author(s):  
Carlos J. L. BALSAS

A buildout analysis is an important methodology in land-use planning. The GIS technicalities of doing a buildout analysis tend to be the purview of professionals with a background in geographical sciences. However, it is argued that planners ought to be able to conduct buildout analysis in order to develop a better understanding of how land-use patterns could change sustainably over time depending on a community’s regulatory environment and pace of development. A state buildout analysis is compared and contrasted with buildouts conducted for two local jurisdictions on the opposite ends of Massachusetts: the towns of Amherst and Georgetown. The town of Amherst’s computations identified lower values of developable and new commercial/industrial land and 1,878 more new dwelling units than the state-led planning initiative three years earlier. In the case of Georgetown, the UMass Amherst planning consultancy identified lower values of developable land and fewer new dwelling units and 3.5 million square feet more of new commercial/industrial land than the state-led analysis. A series of implications for teaching buildout analysis in Urban and Regional Planning studio courses is presented.


2019 ◽  

This volume presents a summary of the latest academic conference on urban and regional planning, which took place at the Technical University Berlin in March 2019. The conference addressed current demands in urban development with regard to the creation of building land and its legal requirements. In the past years, we have seen a growing demand to establish building land, especially for the provision of housing. Here, unplanned inner-areas have a particular importance. Through procedural simplifications, German legislators are trying to incentivise municipalities to set up, modify or complement land-use plans. Delimitation problems between the planning instruments themselves and their scope are currently a problem for both investors and municipalities. These conference proceedings are intended to help practitioners who are dealing with the new regulations. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Michael Krautzberger, Prof. Dr. Alexander Schink, Dr.-Ing. Tim Schwarz, Dr. jur. Gerhard Spieß, Michael Bongartz, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Stephan Mitschang, M. Sc. Mira Evers, Dipl.-Ing. Angelika Sack, Univ.-Prof. Dr. jur. Willy Spannowsky, Prof. Dr. jur. Gerd Schmidt-Eichstaedt, Prof. Dr. jur. Christian-W. Otto, Prof. Dr. Olaf Reidt


Transport ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jadranka Jović ◽  
Vladimir Depolo

The idea, representing a fundamental starting point in this article, is to confirm that the models for demand forecasting, in terms of planning urban development, gave the results of the forecasted period. In other words, the available models continue to be a valid theoretical basis to be used for planning the sustainable development of the cities. The presentation of model development in the cities of South-East Europe shows that the matter of city sustain-ability has always represented the focus of attention and has been the subject since the early ‘50s till the present day. Modelling trip generation in transportation studies in the cities of the former Yugoslavia has been taken as the basis for this paper, because it reflects all the stages modelling went through. Such situation was strongly influenced by foreign experience, especially that gained by Anglo-Saxons. Introducing procedures for analytical modelling that relate household socio-economic and land use characteristics to the intensity of land use represented the pioneering step in procedures for integral land use, activity intensity and transportation demand planning. In the cities of South-East Europe, all known methods of trip generation modelling were applied in transportation planning practice. Recently, Serbian researchers have acknowledged that the process of balancing demand for mobility resulting from the purpose, activity intensity and supply to the transportation system (infrastructure and services) terminates in forming the ‘fields of improved accessibility’ (i.e. the parts of the urban area more influenced by investments). The process of forming them causes ‘pressure’ to increase activity intensity (appearance is known as induced construction) that ends in inducing new demand. In this context, there are efforts to integrate trip generation models into ones of spatial distribution taking into consideration the above described conditions and creating the basis for balanced and sustainable development of the cities. Santrauka Pirminė ir pagrindinė šio straipsnio mintis—patvirtinimas, kad modeliai, numatantys paklausą miesto plėtros planavimo požiūriu, pateikė prognozuojamo periodo rezultatus, t. y. siūlomi modeliai ir toliau išlieka vertingu teoriniu pagrindu planuojant darniąją miestų plėtrą. Vystymo modelių, naudojamų Pietryčių Europos miestuose, pristatymas rodo, kad miestų darnos klausimas visada buvo dėmesio centre nuo 1950-ųjų iki šios dienos. Pietryčių Europos miestuose vežimams planuoti buvo taikomi visi žinomi kelionių modeliavimo būdai. Pastaruoju metu Serbijos mokslininkai atskleidė, kad mobilumo paklausos balansavimas, atsirandantis dėl transportavimo sistemos paskirties, veiklos intensyvumo ir pasiūlos (infrastruktūra ir paslaugos), apsiriboja formuodamas „geresnio prieinamumo sritis”, t. y. labiau investuojama į mieste esančias teritorijas. Visa tai sudaro sąlygas „spaudimui” padidinti veiklos intensyvumą ir skatina naują paklausą. Šiame kontekste reikia pastangų integruoti kelionių plėtros modelius į erdvinį pasiskirstymą, atsižvelgiant į pirmiau išdėstytas sąlygas ir sukuriant pagrindą subalansuotam ir darniam miestų vystymui. Резюме Основной целью публикации было подтвердить, что модели, определяющие спрос при развитии городов в контексте планирования, представляют результаты прогнозируемого периода. Таким образом, они и в дальнейшем остаются важной теоретической основой при планировании устойчивого развития городов. Обзор моделей, используемых в юго-восточной Европе для развития городов, показал, что вопрос устойчивого развития городов был и остается в центре внимания с 50-х годов прошлого столетия до наших дней. Для планирования перевозок (транспортирования) в городах юго-восточной Европы использовались почти все известные способы их моделирования. В настоящее время сербские ученые установили, что баланс спроса на мобильность, возникающий из-за назначения транспортной системы, интенсивности деятельности и спроса (инфраструктура и спрос), ограничивается формированием «областей лучшего подхода», т. е. основной поток инвестиций направляется на развитие отдельных частей территорий города. Это в свою очередь создает условия для интенсификации деятельности и поощряет новый спрос. В данном контексте нужны усилия для интеграции моделей развития перевозок (транспортирования) в пространственное распределение, создавая основу для сбалансированного и устойчивого развития городов.


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