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Climate Governance and Urban Planning: Implementing Low-Carbon Development Patterns book cover

1st Edition

Climate Governance and Urban Planning Implementing Low-Carbon Development Patterns

By Deborah Heinen Copyright 2023
240 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Urban planning as a discipline is deeply integral to implementing a low-carbon future. This book fosters an understanding for how the rules-in-use that govern urban planning influence the ability to implement low-carbon development patterns. Drawing on the theoretical foundations of the climate governance and urban planning literatures, the book provides a context to understand plan... Read more

Author’s Biography

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

1) Promoting low-carbon development patterns

Recommendations in Climate Action Plans relevant for planning as a discipline

Planning debate on nexus between density and vehicle-miles-travelled

2) Facing a metropolitan governance challenge

Actors involved in implementing low-carbon development patterns

The 5 dimensions of Climate Governance Arrangements

Governing Low carbon development patterns

3) Understanding rules-in-use as an implementation factor

Rules-in-use as understudied dimension of climate governance arrangements

The rules-in-use in planning systems that govern low-carbon development patterns

4) Aligning plans in the Vancouver Region

Leveraging the interactive planning system in British Columbia

Spatial policies and integrating mechanisms in metropolitan Vancouver

The RGS and transit implementation decisions

The RGS and local decision-making: Mutually beneficial efforts of local governments and transit providers

5) Ensuring consistency in the Puget Sound Region

Encouraging low-carbon development patterns as part of growth management in Washington State

Spatial policies in the Puget Sound region: Directing growth to the designated urban growth area to achieve emission savings

Transit implementation: Unilateral transit decision in a negotiated setting

Local decision-making: Negotiating the transit alignment in a setting of a guiding Regional Growth Strategies

6) Nesting plans in the Stuttgart Region

Low-carbon development patterns as a business as usual in the German nested planning system?

Spatial policies in the Stuttgart Region to support low-carbon development patterns

Implementation of transit expansion

Local decision-making: Increasing densities along transit corridors

7) Reflecting on spatial policies as rules-in-use in Regional Growth Strategies

8) Integrating mechanisms supporting implementation

Types of integrating mechanisms based on empirical findings

The integrative nature of a Regional Growth Strategy between self-regulation and state-regulation

Implementing transit-connected urban centers with and without a binding Regional Growth Strategy

The trouble with rezoning around any rapid transit station

9) Implementing low-carbon development patterns

Findings for urban planning

Findings for climate governance

Conclusion

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

Biography

Deborah Heinen is a Lecturer and Research Assistant at HafenCity Universität, Hamburg, Germany and a regional planner in the Hamburg metropolitan area.

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