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Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements
Shaping the Self-Constructed City
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution of future informal cities, planners must consider the same issues that are paramount in formal urban developments, such as provision of:
balanced...
Negotiating Development
Rationales and practice for development obligationsand planning gain
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Planning gain is the legal process by which property development is linked to social provisions. This book examines the rationale for planning gain and development obligations and reviews the practice of development negotiation through a wide range of case histories.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen. Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development...
A Negotiated Landscape
The Transformation of San Francisco’s Waterfront since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco’s iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment.
To understand this landscape Jasper...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book introduces a key issue in research on the climatic impact of land cover and land use changes via terrestrial biogeophysical processes. The parameterization of surface processes and a systematic approach to modeling the climatic impacts of land use change are discussed respectively, and...
City of Refuge
Separatists and Utopian Town Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square plan,...
Regional Economic Development
Analysis and Planning Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels....
What We See
Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs'...
by Un-Habitat
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they...
Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning
Technology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
This major reference presents the challenges, issues and directions of computer-based visualization of the natural and built environment and the role of such visualization in landscape and environmental planning. It offers a uniquely systematic approach to the potential of visualization and the writers...
The Future of Cities and Regions
Simulation, Scenario and Visioning, Governance and Scale
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This guide for tomorrow’s urban practitioner systematically explains fifteen best practices across three continents; it explores questions of broad interest for designing and planning the future of cities and regions. Key questions addressed are: Is simulation useful to explore the effects of different...
by Anupama Sakhare
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This text can be used at the undergraduate or graduate level for a course in ERP. This text is designed to provide fundamental concepts on the plan, design and implementation of ERP systems. It can be used subsequently with other text on Advanced Modules of ERP Packages. This book provides the Basic...
Ideology, Political Transitions and the City
The Case of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Recent history has seen Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) cities undergoing several transitions. Their cities have developed under socialism (1945 – 1992), have suffered through the civil war during the 1990s, and during the last twenty years have been undergoing a slow and multifaceted transition...
Re-Framing Urban Space
Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious...