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The extent to which the energy crisis will affect urban form is unknown. This paper offers several principles which will determine the extent to which we may reasonably expect our future urban form to be determined by the present energy crisis.
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For a good discussion on transportation alternatives and their probable impact, see A.E. Met calf and D. O’Sullivan, ‘Planning for Energy Conservation in Transportation - the Options’ ( Ireland: The Institute of Engineers, February 1979 ).
For two views on how the energy crisis is seen to be affecting urban form, see Verner Z. Hirsch, ‘The Coming Age of the Polynucleated Metropolis’, in Herrington J. Bryce, (ed.) Small Cities in Transition: The Dynamics of Growth and Decline, (Cambridge, Pass.: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1977), PP 267–2825 and Ellis Cose, Energy and the Urban Crisis, (Washington, D.C.: The Joint Centre for Political Studies, 1978). Cose argues that energy innovations will assist the suburbs more than the central cities since they are richer, newer and more adaptable. While not looking at inner city form, Hirsch, argues that the metropolis will become multi-centred. See Ola Ayodeji, Some Fundamental Issues About Modeling in Regional and Urban Planning, (Delft: Netherlands. Research Centre for Physical Planning, 1978) for a discussion of the broader regional issues with which analysis and policy making will contend.For arguments against sprawl, as it relates to energy, see The Costs of Sprawl (Chicago, Illinois: Real Estate Research Corporation, 1974) Regional Energy Consumption (New York, New York: Regional Plan Association; and James S. Roberts, Energy Land-Use, and Growth Policy: Implications for Metropolitan Washington. Washington. D.C.: Metropolitan Council of Governments, 1975 ).
For a discussion of the procedure, see Comprehensive Community Energy Management Program (Argonne, Illinois: Argonne Nationa1 Laboratory, 1978 ). The volume contains the planning procedures which were designed by Hittman Associates, Inc.
Proposed Energy Policy for Portland : Discussion Draft (City of Portland : Portland, Oregon, 1978), p. 10.
Energy 1990 (Seattle : Washington, City of Seattle, 1976).
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Bryce, H.J. (1982). The Energy Crisis and Urban Form: A Comment. In: Laconte, P., Gibson, J., Rapoport, A. (eds) Human and Energy Factors in Urban Planning: A Systems Approach. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7651-1_19
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