Planning category: 24680 books
Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better from a Crisis
7 Essential Lessons for Surviving Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
Like many companies over the last few years, yours has probably done a great deal to reassess its physical, strategic, and financial vulnerabilities. But there is a huge difference between business continuity planning and true crisis management. Do your company and employees have the necessary ""IQ""...
by Justin Ross Muchnick
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
With input from teens, parents, and numerous experts, Teens' Guide to College & Career Planning knows just how to talk to high school students about the important decisions involving life after graduation. This easy-to-read guide, with updated content, enables busy students to hone in on the right...
by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.
Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to...
by J.H. Dies
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
How to Start and Succeed in the food truck business. Best selling author and hospitality expert J.H.Dies' brand new book covers everything you need to know to start your own food truck with a plan. The explosive food truck industry is revolutionizing how customers eat, and this book explores the low...
The Power of Strategy Innovation
A New Way of Linking Creativity and Strategic Planning to Discover Great Business Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Strategic planning sounds business-as-usual dull, while innovation conjures up images of corporate vision and risk-taking. The truth is, the two must be brought together for companies to excel in dynamic markets. The Power of Strategy Innovation presents a five-phase Discovery Process for staging,...
From an Ancient Road to a Cultural Route
Conservation and Management of the Road between Milas and Labraunda
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The main subject of the study is revealing “cultural routes”, by the evaluation of ancient roads which have cultural accumulation on and around them. Considering the unique character of cultural routes, their formation as a consequence of cultural accumulation in a region is the main objective...
by Bryan W. Barry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1997
In an environment of increased competition, funding cuts, and other pressures, strategic planning is a sound management tool for nonprofits. This workbook provides a guide for developing, implementing, and updating a strategic plan. Sample plan and blank worksheets are included.
Paradise Plundered
Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp...
Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning
Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed.
Cities are having to formulate their urban...
Seeing the Better City
How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
In order to understand and improve cities today, personal observation remains as important as ever. While big data, digital mapping, and simulated cityscapes are valuable tools for understanding urban space, using them without on-the-ground, human impressions risks creating places that do not reflect...
Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development
What About the People?
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures. They need to grow rapidly stronger in order to cope, adapt and flourish. Strong social networks and social cohesion can be more important for a community’s resilience...
Waterfront Regeneration
Experiences in City-building
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Waterfront regeneration and development represents a unique opportunity to spatially and visually alter cities worldwide. However, its multi-faceted nature entails city-building with all its complexity including the full range of organizations involved and how they interact. This book examines how...
Alternative Urban Futures
Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop...
Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development
The UK Experience
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development provides an overview and critical perspective on the impact of devolution on regionalism in the UK since 1999,* *taking a research-based look at issues central to the development of regionalism: politics, governance and planning.
This multidisciplinary...