City Planning category: 1330 books
by Sonia Chand Sandhu, Ramola Naik Singru, John Bachmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This publication is a result of a 2-year innovative, exploratory, and reflective study of cities as unique urban spaces that support life, work, and play. It responds to major issues that affect the quality of life of urban residents. This publication offers practical ways on how urban managers, urban...
Small Town China
Rural Labour and Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
While much has been written about rural migrant workers’ experiences in the big cities, population movements into China’s vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected. This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers experiences in a small town in a north...
by Global Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
This joint publication from Global Policy and the Observer Research Foundation provides information on key urban challenges facing India, and directions the country could take to absorb and manage future growth. Five aspects responsible for achieving sustainable urbanisation are reviewed: Urban population...
Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb
Of Our Own Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans....
Speaking Green with a Southern Accent
Environmental Management and Innovation in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they...
The Material Imagination
Reveries on Architecture and Matter
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating...
Aménagement du territoire
Changement de temps, changement d'espace
Language: French
Release Date: October 31, 2017
L'aménagement du territoire est une des grandes aventures, politique, économique et intellectuelle des cinquante dernières années. Avec les changements de temps et d'espace, et donc de société, il a évolué d'une conception hexagonale et centralisatrice vers des schémas nouveaux, où, au-delà...
Property Management
Corporate Strategies, Financial Instruments and the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Drawing upon a number of international property management projects, this book outlines the issues underlying the development of property management. Addressing key topics such as value for money, economy, efficiency and effectiveness, it focuses on corporate strategies and financial instruments of...
Finance for housing
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts as new bonds. Austerity programmes are designed to reduce the borrowing that governments undertook to stabilise failing banking systems but the UK's Coalition government...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science. With an inclusive international perspective, and founded on the principles of social demography, this handbook shows how the rural population, which recently...
by Derwin Kitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
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Make Housing Central
British Columbia and the Affordable Housing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Rapidly surging house prices, historically low rental vacancies, long waitlists for social housing, and a massive homelessness epidemic—all these have led to many British Columbians feeling trapped in their current housing situation. In Make Housing Central, Kishone Roy, CEO of the B.C. Non-Profit...
Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future
Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world...
Natural Heritage from East to West
Case studies from 6 EU countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Cumulative global transformations, occurring daily, affect important aspects of our life. Characteristic cultural and natural heritage, including sites of priceless value, is under constant threat. There are growing pressures, of both natural and human origin, such as wars, con icts, natural or technological...