Land Use Planning Challenges: Coping with Conflicts in Visions of Sustainable Development and Livable Communities

Sustainable development and livable communities represent the big visionary ideas of contemporary urban planning. But attempts to implement these popular visions can encounter a host of conflicts. The future of land use planning may well depend on how it copes with these conflicts. I propose the sustainability/livability prism as a tool to understand and express the conflicts, and I illustrate the prismʹs usefulness through an application to plans in the Denver area.