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The Regional City
An Anglo-American Discussion of Metropolitan Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In this volume leaders in the fields of urban design and planning from both sides of the Atlantic examine the structure and functioning of the urban region, discuss the strategies and machinery required to make regional planning effective, compare experiences in urban renewal, and analyze the part...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment. The book focuses on urban development, as population and resources and often the most severe environmental problems are concentrated in cities. It looks at the nature of...
Operative Transportation Planning
Solutions in Consumer Goods Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Transportation management in today’s consumer goods industry can be characterized by a high proportion of outsourced transportation services. Due to rising freight costs consumer goods manufacturers are seeking opportunities to increase the efficiency of their transportation network. This book presents...
Man-Made Future
Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects...
by Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such...
by Jala Makhzoumi, Gloria Pungetti
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Based on both research and practical experience,Ecological Landscape Design and Planning offers a holistic methodological approach to landscape design and planning. It focuses on the scarcity of natural resources in the Mediterranean and the need to aim for long-term ecological stability and environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural ecologies. This being the case, planners are faced with the task of navigating a profoundly material world. Planning with and for humans alone is unacceptable: in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new...
Planning the Good Community
New Urbanism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities.
With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe...
Flood Planning
The Politics of Water Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Floods are amongst the most common and most devastating natural disasters. A major flood may cause the death of thousands, sometimes millions, of people and cause immense damage. It may also challenge a government's legitimacy if warning measures or flood protection systems are perceived as having...
by Manuel Guardia
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity, successful 'global cities' have a strong individual - and particularly cultural - identity. The economic value of the culture of cities lies...
Urban Sprawl and Public Health
Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environmin which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and developmin our communities...
Introducing Urban Design
Interventions and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed. The dynamic new subject and profession of urban design straddles the fields of town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning. This...
Spatial planning and resilience following disasters
International and comparative perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Population shifts and an increase in the number of natural (and man-made) disasters are having a profound effect on urban and rural habitats globally. This book brings together for the first time the experiences and knowledge of international contributors from academia, research, policy and practice...