Conservation subdivisions offer an alternative to large-lot residential developments along the urban fringe. These developments pride themselves on protecting ecologically sensitive land and providing an improved quality of life for residents. As suggested by Randall Arendt (1996), these goals are achieved by clustering homes on one portion of the site, while “half or more of the buildable land area is designated as undivided, permanent open space.” In order to gain information about the priorities and motivations of conservation subdivision residents in the Southeast United States, a survey was administered to homeowners within five conservation subdivisions. The results from this study revealed that open space, improved quality of life, and a strengthened community were important in each community. Additionally, homeowner satisfaction is prevalent among conservation subdivision residents. Lastly, demographic characteristics of these communities were analyzed. Recommendations are made for landscape architects and planning professionals for the future development of conservation subdivisions.

Cheung, Suk Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 189-206). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; appendix in Chinese. / ACKNOELDGEMENTS --- p.i / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / 論文摘要 --- p.vi / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.viii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.xi / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.xiii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Research Problem --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Research Objectives --- p.4 / Chapter 1.3 --- Significance of Research --- p.5 / Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Outline --- p.6 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- APPLYING THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN LAND-USE PLANNING / Chapter 2.1 --- Concept of Sustainable Development --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2 --- Good Governance for Sustainable Development --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Sustainable Land-use Planning --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4 --- Important Aspects of Sustainable Land-use Planning --- p.14 / Chapter 2.5 --- Significance of Sustainability Assessment and Public Participation --- p.20 / Chapter 2.6 --- Conclusion --- p.23 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND LAND-USE PLANNING IN HONG KONG / Chapter 3.1 --- Sustainable Development in Hong Kong --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2 --- Land-use Planning System in Hong Kong --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3 --- Sustainability Assessment in Land-use Planning System --- p.36 / Chapter 3.4 --- Public Participation in Land-use Planning System --- p.36 / Chapter 3.5 --- Conclusion --- p.38 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- BACKGROUND OF STUDIED CASES / Chapter 4.1 --- Choices of Case Studies --- p.39 / Chapter 4.2 --- General Background --- p.41 / Chapter 4.3 --- Questionnaires Surveys --- p.42 / Chapter 4.4 --- Residents' and Visitors' Perceptions and Visions of Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.48 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.63 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- KEY ISSUES AND SUSTAINABILITY IDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND-USE PLANNING / Chapter 5.1 --- Designing Sustainable Cities: Key Issues and Sustainability Indicators --- p.65 / Chapter 5.2 --- Key issues and Sustainability Indicators for Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.71 / Chapter 5.3 --- Further Discussion on Sustainability Indicators --- p.89 / Chapter 5.4 --- Opportunities and Challenges --- p.93 / Chapter 5.5 --- Summary --- p.98 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- PULBIC PARTICIPATION FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND-USE PLANNING / Chapter 6.1 --- Review of Public Participation --- p.101 / Chapter 6.2 --- Participatory Planning Processes of Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.113 / Chapter 6.3 --- Questionnaires Design and Surveys on Participatory Planning Processes --- p.118 / Chapter 6.4 --- Quality of Public Involvement Activities of Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak --- p.120 / Chapter 6.5 --- Factors Affecting Participation of Public Engagement Activities --- p.134 / Chapter 6.6 --- Opportunities and Challenges --- p.142 / Chapter 6.7 --- Summary --- p.153 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- CONCLUSION / Chapter 7.1 --- Summary --- p.155 / Chapter 7.2 --- Implication of Study --- p.158 / Chapter 7.3 --- Limitations of Current Study --- p.164 / Chapter 7.4 --- Directions for Future Research --- p.166 / APPENDIX 1 Residents' and visitors' questionnaires for Pat Heung Kam Tin --- p.167 / APPENDIX 2 Residents' and visitors' questionnaires for Kai Tak area (Non-participants' questionnaire attached) --- p.177 / APPENDIX 3 Participants' questionnaire for Pat Heung Kam Tin and Kai Tak area --- p.183 / REFERENCES --- p.189

Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / Jason Brody / As global development trends continue, planners and social scientists of the future will have an increasingly pressing responsibility to effectively and sensitively address and interact with informal development. This report seeks to provide theoretical research to expand the knowledge base of planners and social scientists with respect to informal development. It aims to begin to explore and explain how informal development and living conditions interact, and to understand what the role of the planner and social scientist should be in interfacing with informal development in the future. Through case study this report considers two distinct typologies of informal settlements in order to compare and contrast factors in each settlement‘s history and development, living conditions, and overarching administrative relationships to identify trends in the development and manifestation of informal settlements.

Master of Regional and Community Planning / Department of Architecture/Regional and Community Planning / John W. Keller / The aging demographic of the United States is growing at an alarming rate. Each day, there are more than 10,000 people turning 65 years old. The majority of these individuals prefer to live in their home, called aging in place. Aging in place requires the resident to be relatively independent and capable of accessing necessary services. The emergent demographic shift will compel every community across the country to focus community planning efforts toward older adults. The amenities and structures in a community are, most of the time, not favorable for the older demographic. People in their later years develop various medical and physical conditions and subsequently, find difficulty when adapting to the environment. These individuals definitely need extra care and consideration from all sectors of the community. Creating an environment that promotes aging in place for older adults is confronted with multiple barriers that a community must work past.

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The thesis addresses the introduction of a supra-national instrument; a European directive on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) into national contexts of land-use planning in three countries; Sweden, Iceland and England. The directive ”On the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment” was agreed upon by the European Commission on the 21st of June 2001 and was to be transposed to national legislation by 21st of June 2004. The introduction of these requirements meant that the countries needed to make legal adjustments and implement it at the different levels of planning. Many EU member countries, including those studied in the thesis, had some experience of environmental assessment of plans and programmes prior to the introduction of the SEA directive. SEA has as a concept and a tool in planning in national and international debate on Environmental Assessment and planning for the last two decades. Hence, the SEA directive was introduced to an existing context of environmental assessment in planning and the preparation of the directive has drawn on substantial conceptual development and practical experience of strategic environmental assessment in various forms. The aim of this research is to shed a light on the transposition of the SEA directive into a national legal framework and how the introduction relates to the countries’ planning contexts and previous application of SEA-like instruments. In the thesis an overview is given of the way the directive is transposed to the national legal system of the three countries and the existing planning framework is described. The results from the national reviews are analysed in relation to the contents of the directive and the international and Nordic academic debate regarding the purpose and role of SEA, related to the characteristics of the planning system. The research shows differences in the legal and planning contexts to which the SEA requirements have been introduced in the three countries. Despite of those, the legal requirements follow closely the contents of the directive. However, the expectations towards the directive expressed by national officials and politicians, the recommendations in the way the legal SEA requirements shall be implemented, differ between the countries as well as references to other processes; land-use planning and the practices of Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal. The thesis is the result of a project within the interdisciplinary research programme MiSt, “Tools for environmental assessment in strategic decision making” at BTH funded by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The project has been carried out at Nordregio, the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, Stockholm. / MiSt Report 6

This study examines changing conceptions of the Southern Gulf Islands, an archipelago on the coast of British Columbia, through the twentieth century. By drawing on ideas put forward by government officials, journalists, residents, and travellers it develops an explanation for how and why a conception of the Gulf Islands as a ‘special’ or ‘unique’ pastoral landscape emerged as a result of interactions between individuals and groups, and their political, social, economic, and physical environments. It then examines how these ideas in turn influenced the development of land-use policies and programs, and in particular how an innovative, overarching planning commission called the Islands Trust emerged in 1974 as a mechanism devoted to limiting development and defending the Islands as a pastoral landscape of leisure. More than reflecting such a pastoral depiction of the Islands, the initiatives undertaken by the newly formed Trust ascribed to the idea that a defining lifestyle, characterized by arcadian pursuits such as mixed farming, boutique logging, handicrafts, or the arts, was legitimate for such a landscape. By embracing such a conception of the Gulf Islands’ environment, the Islands Trust endeavoured to preserve and create this landscape through an agenda that supported farmland, forest, and open space retention, and encouraged those activities deemed to be in keeping with the unique ‘character’ of the Islands. The initial work of enshrining the pastoral ‘character’ of the Islands into land-use planning policies and programs by the Trust laid a framework for ongoing efforts to shape the landscape, economy, development, and identity of the region into the present day. / Graduate / 0334

Recovery from a natural disaster is difficult, expensive, and can take ten years or more. Many contend that recovery planning can be ordered, knowable, and predictable and that the destruction of buildings and displacement of the population provide an opportunity to build back better. This thesis examines the complexity of recovery through the lens of land use planning. Land use planning serves as the central focus because land provides an individual or family their livelihood and its use underlies the economy. The thesis considers two planning models -- rational comprehensive and incremental. The thesis concludes that incremental planning is more appropriate for recovery planning, but that even during recovery the community needs post recovery goals and objectives to provide context to their day-to-day decisions. A more comprehensive planning process is better suited for developing and articulating post recovery goals and objectives.

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