The Gender Source Book is organised into 3 parts. Part One presents the essence of the Source Book, (a) the context and the concept of gender responsive environmental planning and management (EPM), (b) the process of gender responsive EPM, drawn lessons of experiences from cities and programmes, and (c) the lessons learnt and challenges. Part Two contains the summaries of twenty practical case ...

Hemalata C. Dandekar, a licensed architect with a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA, is Prof essor, College ofArchitecture and Urban Planning, University ofMichigan. She was Director of Michigan's Center for South and Southeas t Asia. Her publications o n international development include two books, Shelter, Women and Development: First and Third World Perspectives, and Men to Bombay, Women at ...

This article describes new and better ways to solve urban traffic congestion problems. It emphasizes win-win strategies that help achieve multiple planning objectives and therefore maximize overall benefits. This reflects a new planning paradigm which expands the range of impacts and options considered in the planning process. Win-win strategies include improvements to resource efficient modes ...

This chapter introduces the ‘Urban Emotions’ approach. It focuses on integrating humans’ emotional responses to the urban environment into planning processes. The approach is interdisciplinary and anthropocentric, i.e. citizens and citizens’ perceptions are highlighted in this concept. To detect these emotions/perceptions, it combines methods from spatial planning, geoinformatics and computer l...

Facing the understanding problem of update and preservation of urban history space under background of rapid Chinese urbanization, so at first there is a need to dig the philosophic principles of “antithesis” and “unification” which are contained in the traditional Chinese literature known as “antithesis” and do the job of planning translation by personal understanding in order to form understa...

By this time there has been a trend in the direction of devolvement in governance and planning. This trend presents a role for inhabitants, a considerable lot of whom have found an opportunity to express their interests for self-assurance; struggling that current governance structures do not satisfactorily outfit their needs and interests. As planning is inseparably connected to power, this fea...

In recent years energy efficiency in different levels become of prime importance. Studies have been shown that urban planning can play a critical role in this area. At the same time in oil-producing countries like Iran, energy efficiency has not been considered as a national priority. However, in recent years with increase in the population growth, rapid urbanization and acceleration of environ...

We present an approach for integrated decision making of vehicle agents in urban traffic systems. Planning process for a vehicle agent is separated into two stages: strategic planning for selection of the optimal route and tactical planning for passing the current street in the most optimal manner. Vehicle routing is considered as a stochastic shortest path problem with imperfect knowledge abou...