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Urban planning has important implications for [[sustainability]], as well as for quality of life. Housing layout and population density and affect energy use for heating, cooling and transport.
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Building regulations also affect [[sustainability]], by encouraging or discouraging efficient design.
 
==Comparisons of energy usage==
In comparing the energy usage of different city designs, it is important to choose the appropriate measure. The important quantity to measure is energy usage per capita - that is, the actual amount of energy consumed per person. If focusing on transport, the appropriate measure is energy usage per capita per unit time (e.g. joules/person.year or joules/person.day).
 
Measures such as joules per person per km have been used to argue that public transport is no more efficient than transport by private cars. The flaw in this argument is that it is not measuring the important figure (i.e. how much energy is used per person).
 
The reason that this may give a misleading result is that it doesn't capture the various possible effects of public transport, such as shorter distances travelled (due to a more dense housing layout, and clustering of housing near transport); more walking; and the tendency of public transport users to combine their trips (e.g. shopping on the way home from work).<ref name=NK>''Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence'', Island Press, Washington DC, 1999. {{WP p|Peter Newman (Australian)|Newman P}} and Kenworthy J, ISBN 1559636602. ''Points noted here from memory by [[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]].''</ref> However, while these are up for debate, and of course the merits of private vs public transport can be debated, it is important to interpret data correctly, and the logical flaw in using an inappropriate measure is very clear.
 
 
 
==City-Country Fingers==
One of the patterns described by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein in their book ''A Pattern Language''. <ref>See [http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construction-Environmental/dp/0195019199/sr=8-1/qid=1172789456/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6805918-1419369?ie=UTF8&s=books description comments and rating at Amazon] (5 stars, 64 reviews). There are Wikipedia articles on ''[[A Pattern Language]]'', Christopher Alexander]]{{wp sup|A Pattern Language]]'', [[Christopher Alexander{{wp sup|Christopher Alexander]]{{wp sup|A Pattern Language]]'', {{WP|Christopher Alexander]]{{wp sup|Christopher Alexander{{wp sup|Christopher Alexander]]{{wp sup|A Pattern Language]]'', {{WP|Christopher Alexander}} and [[Murray Silverstein]]{{wp sup|Murray Silverstein}}, but not yet on [[Sara Ishikawa]]{{wp sup|Sara Ishikawa}}</ref> is City-Country Fingers, a "starfish" form, with interlocking fingers of farmland and urban land even at the center. The urban fingers should never be more than about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) wide.<ref>Described very briefly at [http://downlode.org/etext/patterns/ptn3.html 3 City Country Fingers], part of a [http://downlode.org/etext/patterns/ summary of ''A Pattern Language''].</ref> Farmer and market are brought closer together, and a "greener" level of urban density is encouraged.
 
==Footnotes and references==
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== Interwiki links ==
 
* [[Wikipedia:Urban planning]]
*[[Wikipedia:Category:Environmental design]] (in particular note articles on New Urbanism).
*[[Wikipedia:Urban agriculture]]
*[[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning]] - a collaboration to improve Wikipedia articles on urban planning.
*[[wikia:urban|Urbepedia]] (at Wikia.com) - a wiki about all things urban.
 
==External links==
*[http://www.patternlanguage.com] - One of the first Patterns is City-Country Fingers, a "starfish" form, with interlocking fingers of farmland and urban land even at the center. The urban fingers should never be more than about 1 mile (1.5 to 2 kilometers) wide. Farmer and market are brought closer together, and a "greener" level of urban density is encouraged.  
 
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