Planning category: 24680 books
by Erik Reynolds, R. David Watros, Tamra L. Barraclough
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
It may not be the first thing that comes to mind, but disability insurance may represent the most important financial product that individuals need during their working years. Being able to generate a steady income from work is the foundation for all financial planning, allowing individuals to maintain...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The scale and complexity of research and practices of open innovation mandate a correspondingly sophisticated form of decision making. Strategic Planning Decisions brings together a number of tools that ease the decision process in technology companies, providing both conceptual frameworks and practical...
by Carol Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
"This book is on the suggested reading list for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. As veteran planner the author points out, the most troublesome conflicts for planners aren't between good and bad, they're between competing good, neither of which can be fully achieved. The 54 real-world...
Visual Strategy
Strategy Mapping for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Strategic planning becomes visual with strategy maps and the tools, techniques, and guidance for turning them into effective action.
Developed as a companion workbook to John Bryson's best-selling Strategic Planning in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Visual Strategy: A Workbook for Strategy...
Complexity and Planning
Systems, Assemblages and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the...
Beyond Benefit Cost Analysis
Accounting for Non-Market Values in Planning Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Illustrated by case studies from Europe, North America and the Middle East, this book examines how non-market values can be identified, measured and incorporated into planning evaluation methodologies. The traditional means of assessing planning options, benefit-cost analysis, requires that all effects...
City of Well-being
A radical guide to planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
City of Well-being provides a radical and holistic introduction to the science and art of town planning. It starts from the premise that the purpose of planning is the health, well-being and sustainable quality of life of people. Drawing on current and historic examples it offers inspiration, information...
by Charlotte Evans, Bruce Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2009
The Pricing & Ethical Guidelines Handbook published by the Graphic Arts Guild reports that the average cost of designing a Web site for a small corporation can range from $7,750 to $15,000. It is incredibly easy to see the enormous profit potential.
Web design businesses can be run part-...
Technologies for Urban and Spatial Planning
Virtual Cities and Territories
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Technological advancements have changed that way we think of traditional urban and spatial planning. The inclusion of conventional elements with modern technologies is allowing this field to advance at a rapid pace. Technologies in Urban and Spatial Planning: Virtual Cities and Territories covers a multitude...
The Road to Retirement 2.0
Everything You Need to Know for a Successful Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
YOUR GPS TO HELP NAVIGATE RETIREMENT ROAD!
Whether still on the road to retirement (or for those retirees already arrived), there are increasingly complex financial challenges and choices. Securing retirement income in a dynamic, often times volatile economy can be unnerving, even treacherous:...
Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities
Sustainable Development and Smart Growth in Urban Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals. This book introduces green city planning and practices from the three...
by Richard J. Niehaus
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is the proceedings of a symposium entitled, "Strategic Human Resource Planning Applications" which was held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on December 4-6, 1985. The meeting was sponsored by the Research Committee of the Human Resource Planning Society. In...
A Guide for the Idealist
Launching and Navigating Your Planning Career
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A Guide for the Idealist is a must for young professionals seeking to put their idealism to work. Speaking to urban and regional planners and those in related fields, the book provides tools for the reader to make good choices, practice effectively, and find meaning in planning work. Built around...
Spatial planning and urban resilience in the context of flood risk.
A comparative study of Kaohsiung, Tainan and Rotterdam
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The...