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The Peri-Urban Interface
Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland....
The Intercultural City
Planning for Diversity Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can cooperate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic...
by Dale Maley
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
American medical doctors face some unique financial planning challenges. They often have to incur student loans in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Unlike regular college graduates who start working at age 22, they often can not start working until about age 30. Their relatively high income can...
by Hunter William Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Preretirement Ideas, Postretirement StrategiesSeventy-eight million baby boomers will retire soon. Some are prepared, but many will fail. You have to ask yourself, "Am I prepared?" and "What could go wrong?"Being prepared means having much more retirement income than you can imagine...
Sunny Side Up
A Guide to Cracking Open Your Retirement Nest Egg
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
When you are planning for retirement and eventually retire, you are faced with cracking open your nest egg. You have only one chance to get it right. This essential handbook will give you the insight and tools necessary for that success. Sunny Side Up is a retirement planning guide that anyone can...
My Lifeprint: Because My Life Matters
My Plan for the Financial and Emotional Well-being of My Loved Ones and Causes
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Akua Carmichael (LLB, J.D.) is an estate lawyer practicing in the areas of estate planning, administration, and litigation. She advises clients on estate planning as well as executor and trustee duties and beneficiary entitlements. Akua is also a writer and speaker on estate and trust issues. She...
by Louise Harnby
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Are you thinking about starting a new editing or proofreading business? Written for those with no prior publishing or editorial experience, this practical guide takes new editorial freelancers, step by step, through the basics of planning their career. Chapters focus on why a business plan is necessary,...
The Essential Guide To Retirement Readiness
Finances • Health & Wellness • Relationships • Life Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Long gone are the days of simply calling it quits from work and spending your remaining days on the front porch. Today’s cohort is retiring earlier and living longer. Some of these retirees have the financial resources to do what they want. They are healthy, happy and enjoying the fruits of many years...
You Can't Take It With You
Wills and Estate Planning for Australians
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
We all face an inescapable truth: whether we like it or not, we will one day die -- and we can't take anything with us when we do. Many Australians spend a great deal of their lives actively creating wealth, but pay little attention to how to distribute that wealth after death. Andrew Simpson's You...
by Christian Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
On screen, bank robbers are glorified for their enviously methodical planning skills. The reality, however, is that your average bank robber is less a criminal mastermind and more of a flawed and narcissistic individual. Convicted bank robber and former NYPD officer Christian Torres has pooled his...
Planning After Petroleum
Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Thepast decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and urbanists because contemporary cities are highly...
Green Cities of Europe
Global Lessons on Green Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In the absence of federal leadership, states and localities are stepping forward to address critical problems like climate change, urban sprawl, and polluted water and air. Making a city fundamentally sustainable is a daunting task, but fortunately, there are dynamic, innovative models outside U.S....
New Urbanism and American Planning
The Conflict of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
First published in 1979, this book examines key planning policy areas such as land use planning, land values, housing and slum clearance, urban transport, industrial and regional economic location policies, and policies inner city policies to explain why particular policies have been adopted at...