Rethinking Sustainable Development: Urban Management, Engineering, and Design by

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Considers the role of urban, regional and infrastructure planning in achieving sustainable urban and infrastructure development, providing insights into overcoming the consequences of unsustainable development.

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In an atmosphere where civilization is progressing and becoming more aware of the consequences of careless development decisions, rethinking sustainable development–particularly sustainable urban and infrastructure development–has become an inevitable necessity.Rethinking Sustainable Development: Urban Management, Engineering, and Design considers the role of urban, regional and infrastructure planning in achieving sustainable urban and infrastructure development, providing insights into overcoming the consequences of unsustainable development. This companion volume to Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure: Technology, Planning and Management, overviews all aspects of sustainable urban and infrastructure development.

Author Biography

Tan Yigitcanlar has a multi-disciplinary background and almost two decades of work experience in private consulting, government, and academia. Currently a researcher at the School of Urban Development, Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia) the main focus of his research is promoting knowledge-based urban development and sustainable transportation. He has been responsible for a wide variety of teaching, training, and capacity building programmes on varied topics in urban planning, environmental science, policy analysis, and information and communication technologies in Turkish, Japanese, and Australian universities. Professor Yigitcanlar is co-editor of Knowledge-Based Urban Development: Planning and Applications in the Information Era (2008) and Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives (2008).

Details ISBN161692022X Short Title RETHINKING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOP Language English ISBN-10 161692022X ISBN-13 9781616920227 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2010 Imprint Information Science Reference Subtitle Urban Management, Engineering, and Design Place of Publication Hershey Country of Publication United States Edited by Tan Yigitcanlar Pages 416 Illustrations 1, black & white illustrations Author Tan Yigitcanlar Series Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies AU Release Date 2010-06-30 NZ Release Date 2010-06-30 UK Release Date 2010-06-30 Publisher IGI Global Publication Date 2010-07-30 DEWEY 307.1216 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly US Release Date 2010-07-30 We've got this

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