GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and Management

CRC Press

GIS in Sustainable Urban Planning and ManagementA Global Perspective\nAuthor(s): Martin van Maarseveen, Javier Martinez, Johannes Flacke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9781138505551, 978-1138505551\nSynopsis\nThe Open Access version of this book, available at [url] has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives [url] license.\n\nGIS 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 pl.