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Fundamentals of Plan Making

Methods and Techniques

by Edward J. Jepson, Jr., Jerry Weitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015

Urban and regional planning programs aspire to prepare practitioners to write and implement plans, primarily at the local level of government. These programs are very much "professional" in their aspirations, as opposed to research oriented. Yet, academic planning programs often place greater emphasis...
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by Demetris Demetriou
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

This book provides an extensive review of three interrelated issues: land fragmentation, land consolidation, and land reallocation, and it presents in detail the theoretical background, design, development and application of a prototype integrated planning and decision support system for land consolidation....
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One Idea, Many Plans

An American City Design Concept in Independent India

by Sanjeev Vidyarthi
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in independent India’s planning practice and literature—from the national level policies to on-the-ground...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

The city is a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, analyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urban researchers, architects, developers, anthropologists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. With the increase in mobile communication, this will help to deliver innovative new services and apps in the field of urban e-planning. New Approaches, Methods, and Tools...
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by Carlos Nunes Silva
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016

There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region which date back to Antiquity. The book explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the challenges confronting contemporary urban planning...
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by Davide Ponzini, Pier Carlo Palermo
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010

Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The...
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New Urbanism

Life, Work, and Space in the New Downtown

by Ilse Helbrecht
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric in the making. Bringing together a range of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are...
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Cities and Metaphors

Beyond Imaginaries of Islamic Urban Space

by Somaiyeh Falahat
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

Introducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is experienced, thought and discussed. In the context of ‘Islamic city’ studies, relying on reasoning and rational thinking has reduced descriptive, vivid features of the...
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by Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Mee Kam Ng
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018

First published in 2000, this volume explores how Asia has developed very rapidly in the last quarter of the century and will be a main focus of the world in the 21st century. With rapid growth and development, the urban areas in the region are undergoing dramatic changes. An appreciation of the heterogeneous...
Cover of Encyclopaedia of Administration and Development Planning in India
by R. A. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

The Planning Commission is an institution in the Government of India, which formulates India’s Five-Year Plans, among other functions. Rudimentary economic planning, deriving the sovereign authority of the state, first initiated in India in 1938 by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose when he was the Congress...
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The collaborating planner?

Practitioners in the neoliberal age

by Tewdwr-Jones, Mark, Clifford
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014

Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a greater pace of reform to planning in Britain than at any other time. As a public sector activity, planning has also been impacted heavily by the wider changes in the way we are governed. Yet whilst such reform has been extensively commented upon...
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by Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Mee Kam Ng
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017

This title was first published in 2000. Asia has developed very rapidly in the last quarter of the century and will be a main focus of the world in the 21st century. With rapid growth and development, the urban areas in the region are undergoing dramatic changes. An appreciation of the heterogeneous...
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Planning and LGBTQ Communities

The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces

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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these...
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