City Planning category: 1330 books
Connections
Exploring Contemporary Planning Theory and Practice with Patsy Healey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades. In this astonishing transition, the thinking and scholarship of Patsy Healey appears as a constantly recurring influence and inspiration around the globe....
Land Use and Spatial Planning
Enabling Sustainable Management of Land Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This bookreconciles competing and sometimes contradictory forms of land use, while also promoting sustainable land use options. It highlights land use planning, spatial planning, territorial (or regional) planning, and ecosystem-based or environmental land use planning as tools that strengthen land...
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning
Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional...
Emergent Urbanism
Urban Planning & Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. These innovations have led to new opportunities in this evolving profession. Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning brings together the efficiency...
Planning Major Infrastructure
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform...
English planning in crisis
10 steps to a sustainable future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The English planning system is in crisis, argue the authors of this provocative new book. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis provide a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, assessing the implications and significance for the future....
Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies
Design and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Researchers are retiring conventional paper-and-pencil research methods and embracing an expanded array of online methodological options. In urban and planning studies, new digital tools, data accessibility, and online applications are changing how urban planning research is conducted. Online Research...
Foundations of the Planning Enterprise
Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.. The first volume...
E-Planning and Collaboration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. E-planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards urban environments. E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery focuses on disaster recovery from the perspective of urban planning, an underutilized tactic that can significantly reduce disaster risks. The book examines disaster risk reduction (DRR), in particular, the recovery stage of what is widely known as the disaster...
Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning
Beyond the Flatlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up...
Planning World Cities
Globalization and Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning...
The Power of Planning
Spaces of Control and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of urban and regional planning. It...