City Planning category: 1330 books
Why Place Matters
Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the past two decades economic bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the globe reached fever pitch. In both well-established centers of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious building projects sprang up, while the skyscraper, heretofore more commonly associated with...
Bigger Isn't Necessarily Better
Lessons from the Harvard Home Builder Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better examines the performance and operation of the US homebuilding sector based on a detailed survey of large home builders conducted by the authors in the period of the great building boom of the 2000s. In contrast to the many books that have focused on the financial...
by Timothy D. Brady
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Small Motor Carriers is a series of eBooks by nationally-recognized trucking expert Timothy D. Brady of TruckersU, a name well-known in trucking for comprehensive information based on years of trucking business management experience.
This quick read, Small Motor Carrier StartUp, is your strategic...
Governing Sustainable Development
Partnerships, Protests and Power at the World Summit
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Multilateral UN summits from Stockholm to Copenhagen have set the pace and direction for the global governance of sustainable development. The 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) was a key moment in the evolution of sustainable development as a discourse and summitry as...
Shaping Urban Infrastructures
Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentally, socially and economically...
by Bose Ranjan K.
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Energy is intrinsic to urban settlements, embedded in the built environment, and directly used to power socio-economic activity, transport and communications, and enable the provision of municipal services. In response to the crucial role of urban energy efficiency for environmentally sustainable and...
Learning Landscape Ecology
A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies...
by Liu Feng; Meyer Anke S.; Hogan John F.
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Urbanization and growing wealth in developing countries portend a large increase of demand for modern energy services in residential, commercial and public-service buildings in the coming decades. Pursuing energy efficiency in buildings is vital to energy security in developing countries and is identified...
Italian Historical Rural Landscapes
Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Mountain agriculture is a socially and culturally unique system, but also a regionally important economic sector. In a globalising world, it is clear that fertile areas on all continents will always be used to produce large quantities of agricultural products in order to feed the world and, increasingly,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
As the global population continues to boom, particularly in the developing countries, it has become necessary to find ways to handle this increase through various policy tools that address population growth and urbanization problems. The urbanization process has both potentials issues as well as opportunities...
Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice
Pattern and Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied...