TY - BOOK AU - Huang,Ling AU - Pai,Jente AU - Peng,KuangHui AU - Shen,Zhenjiang TI - Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities: Sustainable Development and Smart Growth in Urban Environments SN - 9783319700250 PY - 2020/// CY - Cham, Switzerland PB - Springer KW - Community ecology, Biotic KW - Economic geography KW - Regional planning KW - Sustainable architecture KW - Sustainable development KW - Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning KW - Community & Population Ecology KW - Economic Geography KW - Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings KW - Sustainable Development N2 - Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals. This book introduces green city planning and practices from the three dimensions of green-building innovation, community development and smart city strategies, and argues that effective implementation of green city planning are a necessary pre-condition for reaching sustainable urban development. A range of authors representing a broad disciplinary spectrum bring together the different standards of green building methods and urban design techniques and clearly sketch the roles of both spatial designers and urban researchers in the implementation of green city planning at regional, community and single-building level in order to arrive at an integrated approach across different scales ER -