Planning category: 24680 books
Planning the American Indian Reservation
From Theory to Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession. Charged with developing a strategy to protect irreplaceable tribal homelands that have been repeatedly diminished over the ages through unjust public policy...
Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning
Case Study of an Australian Outer Sydney Growth Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed...
by Jean Blacklock, Sarah Kruger
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Stepping Lightly Around the Pitfalls of Estate Planning...
Estate planning is one of those unpleasant but really important tasks. Unfortunately, the process is not only hard to get started, it is then easy to make mistakes. Even the most careful and well-intentioned person can slip up along...
Scenario Planning in Organizations
How to Create, Use, and Assess Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Scenario planning helps organization leaders, executives and decision-makers envision and develop strategies for multiple possible futures instead of just one. It enables organizations to become resilient and agile, carefully calibrating their responses and adapting quickly to new circumstances in...
by Henry Mintzberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1994
In this definitive and revealing history, Henry Mintzberg, the iconoclastic former president of the Strategic Management Society, unmasks the press that has mesmerized so many organizations since 1965: strategic planning. One of our most brilliant and original management thinkers, Mintzberg concludes...
by Jordan Yin
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
How to create the world's new urban future
With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession....
The Planning Game
An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of...
Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,...
Landscape Architecture, Fifth Edition
A Manual of Environmental Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The most comprehensive, current guide to the theory and practice of landscape architecture
For more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape architecture. Now, the book has been revised to address the latest developments...
by James L. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Nothing has greater financial, practical, and emotional consequences than preserving your family wealth and passing along your wisdom and values. Planning for, protecting, and preserving your family wealth—whether a little or a lot—while leaving a lasting legacy and forthright wisdom are the cornerstones...
The purpose of planning
Creating sustainable towns and cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This volume discusses some of the factors determining the political impact of the city planner on community decision-making. Rabinovitz bases her book on case studies of planning decisions in six New Jersey communities that were chosen for reputations of both effective and ineffective planning. She...
Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Australia
City of Sydney Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This book examines the planning and implementation of policies to create sustainable neighborhoods, using as a case study the City of Sydney. The authors ask whether many past planning and development practices were appropriate to the ways that communities then functioned, and what lessons we have...
Introduction to Rural Planning
Economies, Communities and Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community action shape rural spaces.
The second edition provides an examination of the composite nature of ‘rural...