City Planning category: 1330 books
Governance in South Asia
State of the Civil Services
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
The book for the first time offers a comprehensive and contemporary account of the state of civil services in South Asia countries. It brings together experiences of former senior bureaucrats and critics from India and other SAARC nations to affirm the state of civil service and the need for reforms.
While...
by Susan Parnell, Doctor Edgar Pieterse
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The facts of Africa’s rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural...
Unmaking Goliath
Community Control in the Face of Global Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital mobility in order to retain an autonomy that furthers egalitarian social justice, and explores how we go about accomplishing this in practical, political terms.
Designing To Avoid Disaster
The Nature of Fracture-Critical Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing...
No Place Like Home
Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United States, and for many Americans, buying a home is the most important financial investment they will ever make. We are deeply committed...
Path To Progress
Innovative Solutions for Growth, Prosperity, and Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
As of January 2012, the world held seven billion people, up from five billion just twenty years before. The middle class in China, India, and Brazil is just taking off, which means those countries will desire the same resources Americans currently take for granted. If the rest of the world attempts to...
Deconstructing the High Line
Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property...
Guidance Note
Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban...
Sustainable
The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Sustainable: The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals describes in detail the process being used at every level of government to reorganize our society under the excuse of environmental protection. Author Tom DeWeese pulls back the curtain to reveal the policies and the powers...
The Urban Climate Challenge
Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives*, The Urban Climate Challenge*provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
This ebook provides a reproduction of the up-to-date third edition of this important U.S. Department of Energy document on biodiesel handling and use guidelines. It is published by the DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) office. The introduction states: "This document is a guide for those who blend, distribute, and use biodiesel and biodiesel blends."
by Ian J Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
During the 1970s oil crisis, Dr Miller was a Section Head at New Zealand's national chemistry laboratory, and during this period he surveyed the technology available to make biofuels, and embarked on his own program. Now, with a further resurgence of interest in biofuels, he has repeated the...
Building Prosperity
Housing and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book is a much-needed account, with numerous detailed examples, of the role of housing in economic growth and development by an author in a unique position to understand its importance and the practical measures for delivering that growth. While the linkages between housing and the macroeconomic...
Insuring War
Sovereignty, Security and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have contributed to the waging of war and the preservation...