Planning category: 24680 books
Effective Entrepreneurial Management
Strategy, Planning, Risk Management, and Organization
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the essential issues in effective entrepreneurial management. It first introduces readers to the fundamentals of entrepreneurial management, the nature of entrepreneurial managers and business planning, before exploring the specific topics of creativity...
Start Your Own College Planning Consultant Business
Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Thanks to today’s busy lifestyles, nearly 4,500 institutions of higher learning, and more than 21 million students, the need for college admissions consulting services continues to grow. The experts at Entrepreneur detail how education enthusiasts and/ or those with a passion for counseling others...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services...
by Bruce Hayllar, Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Over the last decade, commentaries and research on urban tourism precincts have predominantly focused on: their role in the tourism attractions mix; their physical and functional forms; their economic significance; their role as a catalyst for urban renewal; their evolution and associated development...
Urban Renewal in India
Theory, Initiatives and Spatial Planning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Urban Renewal in India is a comprehensive presentation of the theoretical, strategic and technical aspects of urban renewal. The term ‘urban renewal’ implies redevelopment of urban areas to ensure growth of infrastructure, promotion of tourism and better quality of life. It has been identified...
Cities in a Globalizing World
Global Report on Human Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central...
State of the World's Cities 2008/9
Harmonious Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order...
Food and Urbanism
The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food...
Transforming Distressed Global Communities
Making Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters....
The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change
Design and Improvisation in Development Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice can make space for big and lasting change and for new opportunities to be discovered. It points to ways of building synergy and negotiating...
Managing Growth in America's Communities
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In this thoroughly revised edition of Managing Growth in America’s Communities, readers will learn the principles that guide intelligplanning for communities of any size, grasp the major issues in successfully managing growth, and discover what has actually worked in practice (and where and why)....
Strategic Environmental Assessment
A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends...
Cities That Think like Planets
Complexity, Resilience, and Innovation in Hybrid Ecosystems
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
As human activity and environmental change come to be increasingly recognized as intertwined phenomena on a rapidly urbanizing planet, the field of urban ecology has risen to offer useful ways of thinking about coupled human and natural systems.
On the forefront of this discipline is Marina...
Biophilic Cities
Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasizing such elements as public transit, renewable energy production, and energy efficibuilding systems. While these are important aspects...