"An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning" ed. by Yasar Ergen

This volume is dedicated to regional planning and will be useful for those who work in this area on a practical or academic basis and follow the innovations in the profession.

Urban and regional planning is a spatial design practice that brings limitations to the intervention in natural areas to ensure a balance between population growth, housing, and employment in residential areas. It includes spatial design that enables living creatures to live while planning the interventions to ensure suitability to ecology, geology, climate, and land structure since intervention in nature should be balanced. In this context, the profession generally includes regional, spatial and urban planning, urban transformation that involves the urban decline areas in the city, urban renewal and protection, urban transportation, and urban management.


Contents
1.Absence of Metropolitan Planning Institutes and Territorial Disorganization
2.Urban Noise as an Environmental Impact Factor in the Urban Planning Process
3.Urban Development in Bogotá: The Metro Case of Study
4.Models of Implementation of Spatial Plans: Theoretical Approach and Case Studies for Spatial Plans for the Special Purpose Area
5.Restructuring Gauteng City Region in South Africa: Is a Transportation Solution the Answer?
6.Development of New Sustainable Urban Areas: Horizontal or Vertical Planning Systems for Resource Efficient Cities
7.Urban Planning and Mega-Event Projects: Lessons from Expo 2010, Shanghai
8.The Impact of Organizational Collective Efficacy on Residents’ Choice of Urban Renewal Mode and Urban Planning
9.Urban Renewal and Sustainable Development in Jamaica: Progress, Challenges and New Directions



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