Planning category: 24680 books
Promoting walking and cycling
New perspectives on sustainable travel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Promoting walking and cycling proposes solutions to one of the most pressing problems in contemporary British transport planning. The need to develop more sustainable urban mobility lies at the heart of energy and environmental policies and has major implications for the planning of cities and for...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Urban shrinkage is rising to the top of the political agenda in Europe as more cities are shrinking in the prolonged economic downturn we encounter. Coupled with unprecedented budgetary austerity and rapidly ageing populations, ‘stagnating’ and ‘shrinking’ cities have emerged as a key challenge...
Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States
From Adjustment to Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Accession to the EU in May 2004 was a historic milestone for the spatial and urban development of the new member states. Meanwhile, the social and economic transition during the pre-accession phase already brought about radical changes in national urban systems and new challenges for regional development....
The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment
Towards a More Systematic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
�Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer�s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of the subject will find the book essential.� Leonard Ortolano, Professor at Stanford University, USA...
Mobility and Environment
Humanists versus Engineers in Urban Policy and Professional Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Mobility and Environment calls for a mobility revolution which does not simply mean taking a bus instead of a car: it implies a dramatic shift in the political debate from a technical to a political culture. The author introduces his book by disputing “non-political” Sustainable Development policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students...
Highland Park and River Oaks
The Origins of Garden Suburban Community Planning in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the early twentieth century, developers from Baltimore to Beverly Hills built garden suburbs, a new kind of residential community that incorporated curvilinear roads and landscape design as picturesque elements in a neighborhood. Intended as models for how American cities should be rationally, responsibly,...
Beach Management
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book provides a wealth of case studies from the UK, USA, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and Latin America. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing...
Urban Transportation and the Environment
Issues, Alternatives and Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The book deals with urban transportation planning in light of environmental sustainability and social equity. It begins with a review of the Indian urban transportation system and the issues surrounding it, and discusses the alternatives and policy directions that are being considered. It examines...
Gearing Up for Competitiveness
The Role of Planning, Governance, and Finance in Small and Medium-sized Cities in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book focuses on local government’s role in increasing city competitiveness through planning, governance, and finance, particularly in small to medium-sized cities in South Asia. Existing studies on city competitiveness tend to focus on megacities, and yet smaller cities house an increasingly...
The Community Planning Handbook
How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved: planners and...
City Logistics 2
Modeling and Planning Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems). It highlights modelling the behaviour of...
When City and Country Collide
Managing Growth In The Metropolitan Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Strips of urban and suburban "fabric" have extended into the countryside, creating a ragged settlempattern that blurs the distinction between rural, urban, and suburban. As traditional rural industries like farming, forestry, and mining rapidly give way to residential and commercial development, the...
by Thomas Fredrick
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
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