New York Neighborhoods - Addressing Sustainable City Principles

• Main Author: Rauscher, Raymond Charles (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sustainable development.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Human geography.; Sociology, Urban.; Emigration and immigration.; Sustainable Development.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Human Geography.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Migration.

This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs).  Part I looks at the background to planning urban areas in the face of global urban changes. These changes (i.e. population movements and densification...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Global Urban Change
• Chapter 1. Global Changes and Implications for Cities
• Chapter 2. New York and Sustainable City Principles.- Part II : Manhattan Neighborhoods and sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 3. Lower East Side and Sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 4. Greenwich Village and Sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 5. Hell's Kitchen and Sustainable City Principles.- Part III : Brooklyn Neighborhoods and Sustainable City
• Chapter 6. DUMBO and Sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 7. Brooklyn Downtown and Sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 8. Greenpoint and Sustainable City Principles.- Part IV: Queens Neighborhoods and Sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 9 . Astoria and Sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 10.  Jackson Heights and Sustainable City Principles
• Chapter 11. Long Island City and Sustainable City Principles
• Part V : Conclusions and Future Directions
• Ch apter 12. Directions for Planning Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods.