Eco-city Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Understanding the Origins and Evolution of Eco-city Development: An Introduction

   • Tai-Chee Wong, Belinda Yuen

   Pages 1-14

3. Macro Strategic Planning: Policies and Principles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. How Cities Can Enter the Ecological Age

      • Peter Head, Debra Lam

      Pages 17-30

   3. Three Ecological Cities, Examples of Different Approaches in Asia and Europe

      • Meine Pieter van Dijk

      Pages 31-50

   4. Eco-infrastructures, Feedback Loop Urbanisms and Network of Independent Zero Carbon Settlements

      • Carlos H. Betancourth

      Pages 51-91

   5. The Relationship of Sustainable Tourism and the Eco-city Concept

      • Scott Dunn, Walter Jamieson

      Pages 93-109

4. Implementation and Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Down with ECO-towns! Up with ECO-communities. Or Is There a Need for Model Eco-towns? A Review of the 2009–2010 Eco-town Proposals in Britain

      • Eleanor Smith Morris

      Pages 113-130

   3. Eco-cities in China: Pearls in the Sea of Degrading Urban Environments?

      • Tai-Chee Wong

      Pages 131-150

   4. Green Urbanism: Holistic Pathways to the Rejuvenation of Mature Housing Estates in Singapore

      • Steffen Lehmann

      Pages 151-179

   5. Challenges of Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of Umoja 1 Residential Community in Nairobi City, Kenya

      • Asfaw Kumssa, Isaac K. Mwangi

      Pages 181-197

   6. Towards a Sustainable Regional Development in Malaysia: The Case of Iskandar Malaysia

      • Chin-Siong Ho, Wee-Kean Fong

      Pages 199-219

5. Micro Local Planning: Design and Methods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Presentation of Ecological Footprint Information: A Re-examination

      • Hoong-Chor Chin, Reuben Mingguang Li

      Pages 223-237

   3. Towards Sustainable Architecture: The Transformation of the Built Environment in İstanbul, Turkey

      • Selin Mutdoğan, Tai-Chee Wong

      Pages 239-260

   4. Urban Air Quality Management: Detecting and Improving Indoor Ambient Air Quality

      • T. L. Tan, Gissella B. Lebron

      Pages 261-279

6. Back Matter

   Pages 281-295

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Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach. Instead, the interdependency of human and non-human species has forced us to appreciate the ‘rights’ and ‘intrinsic values’ of non-human species in our pursuit for a sustainable ecosystem. This volume has as approach an emphasis on environmental planning policies whereby, for example, energy saving, anti-pollution measures, use of non-car modes, construction of green buildings, safeguarding of nature and natural habitats in urban areas, and use of more renewable resources are promotional norms. Their aims and leading outcome serve to protect the Earth from adverse effects of global warming and different sources of pollution threatening the quality of life of human societies.

• Eco-city planning
• Ecological balance
• Environmental sustainable development
• Green urbanism
• Sustainable architecture
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• , National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

  Tai-Chee Wong

• School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

  Belinda Yuen

Policies and ethics