We are at a place in mankind’s intellectual growth that planning for our future has to be well thought out. History is a great teacher; the current trends reveal patterns of failure.
One of the most relevant aspects of space planning is in the study of Fung Shui (http://www.fungshway.net). In regards to particular books on the matter, a Google search would provide many choices.
The importance of spatial planning is to focus on servicing small needs of the individual. Placement, according to the art of fung shui science is maintaining the flow of movement. The question becomes: is there a greater demand for the rhythm of flow than in spatial planning?
In California, there is a rush for the Metropolitan Planning Organizations (regional government planning departments) to comply with new State mandates to lower greenhouse gases. The overall attitude of these organizations is to increase land-use densities. There is a lack of understanding within the governmental planning community that increasing population densities causes greater harm to the environment with the automobile at its foundation. The automobile is wholly unsustainable. Building society on an unsustainable foundation results in, well: LA is the result. The outcome is sprawl with social, environmental, and economic decline.
Increasing land use densities does not work with automobiles as the primary source of mobility.
With society’s perpetual growth, we are leaning towards the necessity for sustainability. The only alternative to reach sustainably is to have sustainable transportation as the source of mobility.
Blending the movement flow with fung shui science, the methods of historic community housing trends, and using new clean technology transit modes will certainly get functional spatial planning success.
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