Planning category: 24680 books
Personal Finance For Beginners In 30 Minutes, Volume 2
How to build savings and investments to secure your financial future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Five years from now, what are you going to do when a major expense pops up? In ten years, will you still be renting an apartment? Thirty years from now, will you have enough money for retirement? Planning your current finances is hard enough, but looking ahead to the future can be downright frightening!...
Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development
Territorial Scenarios in Trentino, Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on ’territory’ and ’landscape’. The book introduces an innovative evaluation approach, namely Territorial Integrated Evaluation (TIE), a...
Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods
Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Given current projections of population and household numbers, housing has become arguably the most important issue in planning. Likewise, planning raises arguably the most important long term issues in housing, given the environmental consequences of urban development and the use of the home. Homes,...
Planner's Estimating Guide
Projecting Land-Use and Facility Needs
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
The United States faces enormous changes in the next 25 years. Arthur C. (Chris) Nelson starts this book with a few projections: The population will grow by one-third to 375 million. We will need 60 million new housing units to house these people. There will be 60 percent more jobs, requiring 50 billion...
Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling
Decision-Support and Planning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book is a collection of original research papers that focus on recent developments in Spatial Analysis and Modelling with direct relevance to settlements and infrastructure. Topics include new types of data (such as simulation data), applications of methods to support decision-making, and investigations...
Parallel Patterns of Shrinking Cities and Urban Growth
Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development of City Regions and Rural Areas
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Focussing particularly on urban fringe and rural areas, this book addresses the parallel phenomena of growth and decline. In doing so, it not only broadens a debate which generally concentrates on urban municipalities, especially inner city areas, but also covers new ground by starting to build a...
The Political Culture of Planning
American Land Use Planning in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Karolin Frank
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part...
by Kheir Al-Kodmany
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. This book explores the role of suburban tall as a viable, sustainable alternative to continued suburban sprawl. It...
Emergent Spatio-temporal Dimensions of the City
Habitus and Urban Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity. The argument draws not only on aspects of movement in time, but also on a cultural and specifically social context influencing the creation of the spatial habitus. The book reconsiders existing theories of time and space in the field of urban...
Plan-making for Sustainability
The New Zealand Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Around the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innovative approaches to environmental planning. Focusing on the New Zealand government's innovations in sustainable and environmental planning, particularly...
Activator
Success in the Tech Industry with Design Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Fear has quietly and insidiously woven its way throughout the very fabric of how we do business in Technology. Our goals are driven by failure, rather than success.
Design Thinking is a powerful adjustment in how you approach change, helping you to address this fear by becoming an Activator...
Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future
The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed,...
Bicycle Urbanism
Reimagining Bicycle Friendly Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. Much of the discussion surrounding cycling has focused on bicycle facility design—how...