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Rebuilding the American City
Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet...
The Escape Manifesto
Quit Your Corporate Job. Do Something Different!
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Rob, Dom and Mikey were fed up with the corporate treadmill. When they decided to change careers, they looked for a website to help them escape - except there wasn't one. So they started their own. Three years later and they have started a movement called Escape the City. Over 100,000 people have...
by Paul Tiffany, Steven D. Peterson, Colin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
A full updated and extended second edition of an established UK bestseller Business Plans For Dummies 2nd Edition features new and updated information on formulating a solid business plan to build a secure business – even in an economic downturn. Complete with a brand new business plan template...
by Education Nerds
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2017
You can use this book as a reference; you aren’t required to read it from front to back to understand what’s being said. Feel free to jump into whatever chapter you need the most on a given day. If there’s information in a different chapter that will aid your understanding of the subject at...
Strengthening Functional Urban Regions in Azerbaijan
National Urban Assessment 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This publication helps guide investment planning and financing across key urban infrastructure sectors of Azerbaijan to improve the performance of cities---with a focus on economy, equity, and environment. The National Urban Assessment for Azerbaijan is among a series prepared by the Asian Development Bank for selected developing countries under its Urban Operational Plan 2012–2020).
by Giles Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Do your changing workloads make you wonder if your business processes are still ‘fit for purpose’?
Do you want to find a method to guide you when you are looking to get more work completed during the working day?
Are you looking to achieve more tangible results from your business...
Strategy-in-Action
Marrying Planning, People and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The meltdown of stalwart companies from AIG to JAL to Lehman and government crises from Greece to Spain make it abundantly clear: With economic uncertainty and rapid innovation, empowered consumers and free agents, and the constant pressure to be faster, better and cheaper, the established wisdom on...
Happy Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention
A Practical Guide to Planning and Enjoying the Retirement You’ve Earned
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A practical, fully illustrated guide to planning and enjoying retirement, grounded in psychological research.
Retirement can bring immense fulfillment but also can be a source of stress, especially today. Happy Retirement: The Psychology of Reinvention uses psychological research and a unique...
by Simone Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Historically, at the age of around 65, people stop working and embark on a new transition in life. In the grand drama of life, retirement is our second act. Out of the office and not bound by daily plans and schedules, you now have the choice to do what you want to do. What is your vision of the ideal...
You're Fifty-Now What?
Investing for the Second Half of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Every eight seconds someone in this country turns 50, an age at which even baby boomers can no longer put off becoming fiscally responsible and planning for the future. For everyone who finds that thought daunting (and that's an awful lot of us), Charles R. Schwab, America's most trusted figure in...
Street Smart
The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. Gridlock Sam,” one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current...
Grounds For Hope
Ways to Live Legally on Cheap Land in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From the introduction...I don't suppose I'm the only person who has always dreamed of owning a piece of land on which I can build myself an affordable eco-house and grow my own food and fuel. In my fantasy the land is big enough to support several households, inhabited by all my favourite people, so...
Time For Wonderlust
Planning Your Retirement Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
RETIREMENT AS YOUR LAST SECOND CHANCE
This "Wonderlust" book speaks to those over 50 who are looking to rededicate their lives to something other than work. It’s difficult to know where to turn after a long career, so this book offers four helpful concepts.
YOUR NEW FUTURE...
Patrick Geddes
Social Evolutionist and City Planner
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning, providing a scholarly yet accessible account for those...