City Planning category: 1330 books
Evaluation of a Dialogical Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) Pilot
Addressing homelessness, re-offending, substance abuse, and mental illness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Fulfilling Lives Programme is seeking to help people with multiple and complex needs to better manage their lives, by ensuring that services, across Newcastle and Gateshead, are more tailored and better connected to each other. The focus of the programme is on those people who often spiral around...
Looking Back
How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
By 2050, Pakistan had achieved a miracle. It had transformed itself from a poverty-ridden, malnourished, corrupt and aid dependent country in 2015 to qualifying for High Income category by the World Bank and the top decile in both the Competitiveness index and Social Progress Index by 2050. Where...
by John Bellamy Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist...
The Right to Buy?
Selling off public and social housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and unintended consequences of the policy? How are...
by Jorge G. Castañeda
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but also love victims? And why, though the Mexican people traditionally avoid conflict, is there so much violence in a...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The factors that determine growth at the industry level are different for innovative versus mature industries. Growth industries rely on high-quality workers, access to capital, technical change, and numerous forms of collected economies. Mature industries concentrate on low-input costs and minimizing...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
If you want to discover how to backpack from a real life backpacker, then get the "How To Backpack" guide now.
In this step-by-step guide, you will find out tips and lessons about backpacking the right way.
- How to plan backpacking trips.
- Find out what to do before the backpacking...
Cool Cities
Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A pointed argument that cities—not nation-states—can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability. In this book,...
Urban-Rural Interactions
Towns as Focus Points in Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Modern Europe has rural roots. Even today, as much as 90 per cent of Europe (EU25) consists of rural areas in which half of the population lives. While different rural areas often face different challenges, the shift from agricultural production towards a multifunctional landscape and the increasing...
New Dark Age
Technology and the End of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life.” – New Yorker
As the world around us increases in technological complexity,...
by Richard Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping...
Urban Ecology
A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Known business model in the Urban Ecology Center
proven method
Ken and the Urban Ecology Center have been featured in local and national media outlets, including The New York Times, Milwaukee Magazine, Orion Magazine, Milwaukee Public Television, and in Richard Louv’s best-selling book, The Last Child in the Woods.
Changing Course
A New Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Transport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Most Asian cities have grown more congested, more sprawling, and less livable in recent years; and statistics suggest that this trend will continue. Rather than mitigate the problems, transport policies have often exacerbated them. In this book, the Asian Development Bank outlines a new paradigm for...
by Rosaleen Duffy, Mick Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Drawing upon a variety of important philosophical traditions, this book develops an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including:
the...