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SpeakOut
The Step-by-Step Guide to SpeakOuts and Community Workshops
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Finding specific advice on inclusive processes for engaging a community in a planning or design process can be a daunting undertaking. The latest offering in the Tools for Community Planning Series is the product of nearly two decades of successful practice by internationally acclaimed community planning...
Suburb
Planning Politics and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington,...
by D. Bradford Hunt, Jon B DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the ensuing decades, planning did much to develop the Loop, protect Chicago’s famous lakefront, and encourage...
by Russell Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This book provides a critical overview of the relationships between planning and railway management and development during the key period in the 20th Century when the railway was in public ownership: 1948-94. It assesses the strength of the relationships when working in collaboration with the private...
Sustainable Urban Logistics
Planning and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Urban logistics has been a subject of interest to researchers and practitioners for more than 20 years in France and Europe, and more than 40 in the United States. Nevertheless, the subject remains difficult to address by a lack of unification in the definitions and proposed methods but also by what...
Planning Politics in Toronto
The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including...
by Michael J. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Security Advance Planning (SAP) is 90 percent of what bodyguards do. This book covers in comprehensive detail the advanced planning requirements that most bodyguards are regularly expected to do in the course of their duties. All you need to know in an easy to understand and systematic format.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research. It provides a step-by-step introduction to research related to traffic engineering and control, transportation planning, and performance measurement and evaluation...
Transport Systems, Policy and Planning
A Geographical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Provides a unique review of the major spatial aspects of transport systems, a detailed analysis of transport problems in urban and rural areas, an evaluation of social and environmental impacts, and a planning and policy overview. Divided into four parts, each considering a different aspect of transport...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award!
Community Matters: Service Learning in Engaged Design and Planning explores issues that resonate with a diverse group of design and planning educators drawn to the challenge of supporting greater community building and empowerment while combining learning...
Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife
Issues And Examples
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife presents numerous case studies that demonstrate how differcommunities have creatively reconciled problems between developers and environmentalists. It answers questions asked by regulators, environmentalists, and developers who seek practical alternatives...
Snapshot Business Planning
12 Quick and Easy Steps to Take Your Business to the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
For many business owners... the words "business plan" conjure up thoughts of a painful, overwhelming task they'd rather avoid at all costs! (And many do!)
But any business without a well-thought-out plan is like a ship without a rudder - you'll get SOMEWHERE, certainly, but not likely where...
Smart Growth and Sustainable Development
Selected Papers from the 9th International Association for China Planning Conference, Chongqing, China, June 19 - 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of land use, protect the natural and...
Urban Climate Challenges in the Tropics
Rethinking Planning and Design Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Among the places worst hit by climate change are areas of high urban growth in the warm, humid tropics of Asia and Latin America. In these places, the global trend of rapid urbanisation and conditions of local warming compound the effects of climate change.
This three-part book explores the...