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Succession Planning
Promoting Organizational Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book examines current research related to succession planning strategies and tactics. The authors compare and contrast the rationale and processes needed for effective and efficient succession planning. This is a comprehensive endeavor exploring succession planning across today’s key disciplines:...
Planning in the UK
Agendas for the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Priorities changed and different themes moved to the top of the agenda such as local democracy, community, transparency, sustainability and co-ordinated or...
by Nicole Gurran, Nick Gallent, Rebecca L.H. Chiu
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the best, most sustainable, locations. Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong examines the politics and planning of new homes...
by Greg Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring. At the same time, 'culture' is nowadays seen as the world's key intellectual resource possessing new creative weight in sociological, economic and environmental terms. This book argues that, in the light...
Planning in Ten Words or Less
A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights...
New Labour and Planning
From New Right to New Left
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour’s view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the Government began to appreciate that many of...
Planning for Community Resilience
A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These...
Making Strategies in Spatial Planning
Knowledge and Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such...
Planning Theory
A Search for Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at work in a board meeting and coping with the realities of fund raising, political realities, and the like, can find little guidance in the theory of the...
Shadows of Power
An Allegory of Prudence in Land-Use Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Shadows of Power examines public policy and in particular, the communicative processes of policy and decision-making. It explore the important who, how and why issues of policy decisions. Who really takes the decisions? How are they arrived at and why were such processes used? What relations of power...
How to Create a Successful Business Plan
For Entrepreneurs, Scientists, Managers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
How can all the nuts and bolts of a business be analyzed effectively in one comprehensive model and translated into a business plan? At various points in the life of a business, entrepreneurs will need to take stock of their ideas and plans and reformulate them in business and financial terms. How...
The Development of an Integrated Planning and Decision Support System (IPDSS) for Land Consolidation
The Development of an Integrated Planning and Decision Support System (IPDSS) for Land Consolidation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This book provides an extensive review of three interrelated issues: land fragmentation, land consolidation, and land reallocation, and it presents in detail the theoretical background, design, development and application of a prototype integrated planning and decision support system for land consolidation....
Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements
The Rugged, Dialectical Path from Knowledge to Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the link in moving from knowledge to action. Observing that the knowledge domain of the planning profession is constantly expanding, the approach is a deep philosophical analysis of what is the quality...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. With the increase in mobile communication, this will help to deliver innovative new services and apps in the field of urban e-planning. New Approaches, Methods, and Tools...