**Introduction**

**Chapter 1**

**Provisional chapter**

**Introductory Chapter: Land-Use Planning and Land-Use**

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**Change as Catalysts of Sustainable Development**

**1. Land-use planning: paradigm changes and future perspectives—a** 

Land-use change has often been one of the main drivers of economic growth, social change and innovations of the government. For this reason, as mentioned by Magalhães [1], the analysis and comprehension of the processes, which throughout time, influenced landscape form and patterns (and thus land use), constitute an essential feature for those aiming to work in and with it. Thus, this subject has been widely addressed considering not only the historical role of cities but also the problem that land-use change had caused throughout time ([2–6]). Still, the analysis of land-use change is generally associated to the impacts of growth, and to the implications it had on environmental, economic and social development dimensions ([7–12]). In fact, the environmental movement marked somehow by the publication of the book *Silent Spring* by Rachel Carson in 1962 may be considered a good example of this association, not only because Carson's book exposed the negative environmental impacts of land-use change considering the unchecked impact of industrial development both on natural ecosystems and human health, but also because the conversion of natural land into urbanized one started to

This movement, which had a great impact in terms of land-use planning, gained a special momentum in 1969, the year of the first 'Earth Day', which revealed the environment to be a powerful political issue. It was the year of the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which enabled a wide range of laws to control existing and potential threats to the environment, thus affecting land use; and it was the publication year of the book *Design with Nature* by the landscape architect Ian McHarg, which according to Andresen [13] intro-

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be viewed as a possible threat to future of the planet.

duced the direct application of ecological principles in planning.

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