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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The need for change | |
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| The role of planning | |
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| Levels of government and scales of planning | |
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| Recent trends in urban planning and design | |
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| Sustainable development | |
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| Roots of the concept | |
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| Definitions and perspectives | |
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| Modernist, postmodernist, and ecological worldviews | |
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| The role of values and institutions | |
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| Theory of sustainability planning | |
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| Elements of the sustainability planning approach | |
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| Past perspectives on planning | |
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| Situating sustainability planning within planning theory | |
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| Planning and power | |
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| Planners' roles | |
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| Planning and the Three Es | |
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| Sustainability and the environment | |
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| Sustainability and economics | |
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| Sustainability and equity | |
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| Issues central to sustainability planning | |
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| Growth management and land use planning | |
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| Urban design | |
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| Housing | |
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| Transportation | |
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| Environmental protection and restoration | |
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| Energy and materials use | |
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| Green architecture and building | |
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| Equity and environmental justice | |
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| Economic development | |
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| Population | |
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| Tools for sustainability planning | |
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| Planning processes | |
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| Sustainability indicators | |
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| Ecological footprint analysis | |
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| Other research and analytic tools | |
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| Institutions and policy mechanisms | |
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| Education, communication, and consensus-building | |
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| Organizing and coalition-building | |
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| International planning | |
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| Institutions | |
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| International planning issues | |
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| Sustainability issues in industrialized vs. less-developed countries | |
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| National planning | |
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| Who plans at a national scale? | |
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| National sustainability frameworks | |
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| National planning issues | |
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| State and provincial planning | |
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| Who plans at the state and provincial scale? | |
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| State or provincial planning issues | |
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| Regional planning | |
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| Types of regions | |
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| Who plans regions? | |
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| Regional sustainability issues | |
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| Local government planning | |
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| Who plans at the local level? | |
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| Local sustainability issues | |
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| Comprehensive local sustainability plans | |
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| Neighborhood planning | |
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| Who does neighborhood planning? | |
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| Neighborhood sustainability issues | |
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| Site planning and architecture | |
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| Who plans at the site and building scale? | |
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| Sustainable site design issues | |
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| Ecological architecture | |
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| How do we get there from here? | |
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| Developing an awareness of opportunities | |
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| A strategic perspective | |
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| Dealing with power and improving democracy | |
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| An agenda for the future | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |