Planning category: 24680 books
by Michael Neuman
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence, along with the institution's structures and procedures, have persisted - with some...
Environmental Planning in the Netherlands: Too Good to be True
From Command-and-Control Planning to Shared Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Netherlands is one of the most prominent and innovative countries in the field of environmental planning. Over the past decade, its government has introduced such ground-breaking schemes as Integrated Environmental Zoning, the City-Environment Project, the Bubble Concept and Policy Concepts and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Hugh P. Possingham Landscape-scale conservation planning is coming of age. In the last couple of decades, conservation practitioners, working at all levels of governance and all spatial scales, have embraced the CARE principles of conservation planning – Comprehensiveness, Adequacy, Representativeness,...
Participatory Rural Planning
Exploring Evidence from Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Participatory Rural Planning presents the argument that citizen participation in planning affairs transcends a rights-based legitimacy and an all too frequent perception of being mere consultation. Rather, it is part of a social learning process that can enhance the prospects for successful implementation,...
Urban Design Management
A Guide to Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This is an introduction to the secrets of Urban Design Management (UDM). The book examines the roles of the players involved in land-use projects and describes good collaborative methods of practice in project-based urban design and planning, putting emphasis on the creative co-operative skills and...
Airport Systems, Second Edition
Planning, Design and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
THE MOST PRACTICAL, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE PLANNING, DESIGN, AND MANAGEMENT OF AIRPORTS--UPDATED BY LEADING PROFESSIONALS
"With the accelerated rate of change occurring throughout the aviation industry, this edition is a timely and very effective resource for ensuring both airport professionals...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Windows Upon Planning History delves into a wide range of perspectives on urbanism from Europe, Australia and the USA to investigate the effects of changing perceptions and different ways of seeing cities and urban regions. Fischer, Altrock and a team of 13 distinguished authors examine how and why...
Creative Community Planning
Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework. Leading...
Understanding Urban Metabolism
A Tool for Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Understanding Urban Metabolism addresses the gap between the bio-physical sciences and urban planning and illustrates the advantages of accounting for urban metabolism issues in urban design decisions. Urban metabolism considers a city as a system, and distinguishes between energy and material flows...
Planning for Public Transport Accessibility
An International Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Bringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities spanning four continents, this book provides a "hands-on" introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools that have emerged since...
Of Planting and Planning
The making of British colonial cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries
This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at...
Planning for Urban Quality
Urban Design in Towns and Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Rapid regeneration of city areas has placed the quality of urban design high on public and policy agendas worldwide.
Planning for Urban Quality examines the achievement of quality in the urban environment, in a planning context. Tracing urban design from its roots, the authors draw on both historical...
The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally. In this book, Italian and Finnish planning researchers extend the use of the concept...