Ecologically-Compatible Urban Planning

Stefano Salata is a Research Technologist in the Inter-University Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests include land-use change analysis and its environmental effects.

• Part 1. Planning in the Contemporary City: Do Urban Plans Still Matter?  Chapter 1. The Contemporary City Chapter 2. Towards the Paradigm of 'Eco-Systemic Planning' Chapter 3. Eco-Systemic Planning Reform Part 2. Acquiring New Competencies Chapter 4. Ecosystem Service Mapping in Land Use Plans: Modelling with InVEST Part 3. Case Studies Chapter 5. Case Study One Chapter 6. Case Study Two: Resilience is Not Sustainability Chapter 7. General Conclusions

This pocket-size overview of environmental planning for urban land use offers plain language, bullets, and numbered lists to explain a framework for mapping ecosystem services in land use plans, using InVEST, an open-source software model. The framework seeks to promote collaboration between environmental scientists and urban planners and to promote ecological approaches to spatial policies and urban planning. After an introduction to challenges in urban planning, the book describes how to integrate the new methods for planning and decision-making in urban planning and presents two case studies: mapping air quality in urban areas, and indicators of sustainability and resilience in urban ecosystem services. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution.