END 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Transect, American Planning Association, Zoning

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Environmental Design
• Course: END 301
• Professor: Bumjoon Kang

Document Summary

Public health implications: walking, biking and human interaction, more active, socially engaged lifestyles, food security. To improve city form: location: incentives and disincentives, community/building design new marketable design models, mobility travel mode priority, process make development review process more predictable. Smart growth is the development that serves the economy, the community and the environment. It changes the terms of the development debate away from the traditional growth/no-growth question to how and where should new development be accommodated (- Ex) maryland"s state planning efforts: perception of growing suburban sprawl, traffic problems, smart growth and neighborhood conservation act, 1997. Encouraging brownfield redevelopment, living near your work, concentrating infrastructure in priority funding areas, preserving rural legacy lands and spatially concentrating job creating tax credits. Ex) natural resources defense council and surface transportation policy project. Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty and critical environmental areas. Not equivalent to euclidean zoning: no single purpose zoning.