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The Visual Language of Spatial Planning
Exploring Cartographic Representations for Spatial Planning in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
At a time when strategic spatial planning is undergoing a renaissance in Europe, The Visual Language of Spatial Planning makes a unique contribution to this rapidly growing area of teaching and research. Discussing the relevant theoretical perspectives on policy-making and planning, combined with...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique is a practitioners’ handbook that builds upon the experience of a pilot project that was awarded the United Nations ‘Lighthouse Activity’ Award.
Building upon a long scholarly tradition of participatory planning,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning...
by Frank Gaffikin, Mike Morrissey
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised ‘community planning’ approach.
The book examines urban planning and policy in the...
Planning Commissioners Guide
Processes for Reasoning Together
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Across the country, communities rely on their planning commissions for guidance. But who guides the planning commissioners?
This step-by-step guidebook gets new commissioners off on the right foot and helps experienced commission members navigate their roles. The authors, all practicing planners,...
Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA
Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries...
Planning Cultures in Europe
Decoding Cultural Phenomena in Urban and Regional Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team from across the EU, this book connects elements of cultural and planning theories to explain differences and peculiarities among EU member states. A 'culturized planning model' is introduced to consider the 'rules of the game': how culture affects planning...
Site Planning
International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Ebook Volume 2 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.
Ebook Volume 2 of 3.
Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the...
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 6
The Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into...
by Carlos Nunes Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrÃncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis...
by Jay Stein
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This new edition of "the best anthology in planning" includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers. Returning editor Jay M. Stein chose the articles, about half of them new to this edition, based on suggestions from colleagues and students...
Building Resilient Cities in China: The Nexus between Planning and Science
Selected Papers from the 7th International Association for China Planning Conference, Shanghai, China, June 29 – July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications....
Planning for Greying Cities
Age-Friendly City Planning and Design Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Planning for Greying Cities: Age-Friendly City Planning and Design Research and Practice highlights how modern town planning and design act as a positive force for population ageing, taking on these challenges from a user-oriented perspective. Although often related to 'healthy city' concepts, the...