Product Description: Rome: A New Planning Strategy looks at the problems of a city over the last century and suggests a totally new planning strategy. The book examines the stages that have marked the increase of population and change in land use and analyses the masterplans used to try and control these evolving conditions...read more

Planning Theory expresses a sound unease about the direction taken by the current analysis and criticism of planning experiences. To oppose the debate that freezes planning as a permanently declining engagement, this book aims to identify the essential guidelines of a re-launch of planning processes and techniques, configuring a kind of neo-discipline. This builds upon a multi-disciplinary integration - never seen and experimented with until now.

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Product Description: A collection of essays which are designed to provide methodological illustration of the urbanistic foundations of an ecological policy. These essays focus on subjects such as the causes of the degradation of the urban environment; strategies for recovery in the city and their public spaces; the relationship between urban planning and ecology; prerequisites for planning the ecological city; eco-equilibrium and territorial planning; and the final chapter focuses on the Ten-Year Plan for the Environment of the Italian Ministry of the Environment (1992)...read more