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Sustainable urban and regional planners attempt of find ways of organizing the structure and function of cities, including land use, buildings, and infrastructure (e.g. water, wastewater, flood management, transport, etc.), in order to bring them into greater harmony with their natural or original surroundings. Sustainable planning attempts to reduce the ecological impacts of both the urban footprint, such as sprawl, and the source areas from which resources are imported to the city. Sprawl is the spread of suburban development, usually into rural and subrural landscapes. It may also mean the densification and spread of industrial and urban footprints. In either case, the sprawl is minimally constrained by land use zoning and is characterized by significant land consumption, centralized infrastructure for water and wastewater, automobile dependence, disregard for ecosystem services such as wetlands as components of floodplain management, and minimal concern for amenities such as parks, greenways, and wildlife. Sustainable planners include both social and economic impacts in order to plan an energy- and materials-efficient economy with minimal pollution and equitable distribution of benefits.
Keywords
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