Planning category: 24680 books
Leaderships Broken Link
A powerful method for super-charging your organization!
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
What is the relationship between organizational planning and organizational strategy? Is strategy simply a process of planning … or is planning the engine behind strategy? What is the impact of planning on an organization’s direction? How does planning engage people? How is strategy implemented...
Community action and planning
Contexts, drivers and outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise...
Actor Networks of Planning
Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Planning is centrally focused on places which are significant to people, including both the built and natural environments. In making changes to these places, planning outcomes inevitably benefit some and disadvantage others. It is perhaps surprising that Actor Network Theory (ANT) has only recently...
Complex Strategic Choices
Applying Systemic Planning for Strategic Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Effective decision making requires a clear methodology, particularly in complex, globally relevant situations. Institutions and companies in all disciplines and sectors are faced with increasingly multi-faceted areas of uncertainty which cannot always be effectively handled by traditional strategies....
Making Use of Deleuze in Planning
Proposals for a speculative and immanent assessment method
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuze’s most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable planning assessment tool. It shows what his philosophy can do for planning theory as well as planning assessment practice and, in doing so, sets out...
by Lei Wang
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
As a legacy of the socialist state with central planning, Five-Year Planning (FYP) is very important in regulating socio-economic and spatial development even in post-reform China. This book tries to fill the research gap between examining the role of FYP and how spatial elements in the FYP mechanism...
by Duncan Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone’s policies and their consequences.
Examining the theory and practice...
by Raymond Charles Rauscher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs). Part I looks at the background to planning urban areas in the face of global urban changes. These changes (i.e. population movements and densification...
by Percy Johnson-Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593 to the innovative achievements of planners and designers of the twentieth century....
by Alberto Bubbio, Luca Agostoni, Dario Gulino
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Per formulare una strategia che abbia elevate probabilità di essere di successo è opportuno delineare il contesto (ambiente esterno e concorrenti) nel quale essa si dovrà realizzare e successivamente tratteggiarla nei suoi elementi caratterizzanti attraverso una Carta degli Intenti strategici....
by Cindy Lemaire, Mardi Foster-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Make money planning events with style and impress your clients — from weddings to meetings! Start & Run an Event Planning Business shows you how to start and run a successful enterprise by planning events of all kinds — from weddings and private parties to corporate events, meetings, conferences,...
Between Flexibility and Reliability
Changing Planning Culture in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban...
Ed Bacon
Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood...
Who Gets the Farm?
A practical guide to farm succession planning
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Want to avoid the heartache, financial loss and family breakdown caused by poor succession planning?
If you're a member of a farming family, you already know what a big deal succession planning is and how most people shudder at the mere mention of it. No doubt, you've heard countless horror...