ENVS 3226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sustainable Design, Gardiner Expressway, Urban Sprawl
21 Sep 2016
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Wheeler (2013) planning for sustainability: creating livable, equitable and ecological communities: wheeler"s broad criteria about how to plan sustainably, long term perspective; holistic outlook; acceptance of limits; focus on place; active involvement in problem-solving. Long term perspective: we need to think about multi-generational terms of decision making and goals and objectives that span multiple decades. Holistic outlook: whole systems thinking; three e"s are interrelated and need to be seen as such. Acceptance of limits: learning to live within our means; in a realistic sense, what our available means are. Finding creative ways to achieve our goals without sacrificing any of the e"s: one way to conceptualize that thinking about c-print of any decision being made; Making sure all social groups have means to enjoy what we create. Climate change, land use and suburban sprawl, transportation, pollution, economic development, sense of community, poverty, shelter and housing, inequality, crisis in spirit. Planning is a verb, things that is always going on.
