This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment. The book focuses on urban development, as population and resources and often the most severe environmental problems are concentrated in cities. It looks at the nature of environmental planning and at the main areas where changes have to be made: in energy policy, waste disposal and pollution control, construction, transport and infrastructure. The book concludes with chapters on planning a sustainable city and on how to bring the necessary changes and institutional arrangements about.

1. The Time for Change, Andrew Blowers; 2. The Planning Background, David Hall, Michael Hebbert, Helmut Lusser; 3. Ecosystems and Natural Resources, John Holliday; 4. Towards a Sustainable Energy Policy, Adrian Webb, Chris Gossop; 5. Pollution and Waste - A Sustainable Burden?, Andrew Blowers; 6. Building the Sustainable Environment, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale; 7. Getting Around: Public and Private Transport, Chris Gossop, Adrian Webb; 8. A Sustainable Economy, Michael Clark, Paul Burall, Peter Roberts; 9. Planning the Sustainable City Region, Michael Breheny, Ralph Rookwood; ch0010 Making it Happen, Ralph Rookwood; 11. Epilogue: A Vision of a Sustainable Community: The Moderley Example, Ralph Rookwood;