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The Art of War for Small Business
Defeat the Competition and Dominate the Market with the Masterful Strategies of Sun Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Over two and a half millennia ago, Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu taught that size alone does not guarantee victory--strategy, positioning, planning, and leadership all play equally significant roles in overpowering the opposition. Today, this classic treatise is perfect for adapting to the world...
Framing Strategic Urban Projects
Learning from current experiences in European urban regions
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences.
Helpfully divided into three sections,...
by Lucy Bullivant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!
In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. Urban planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards the city and leaves the rural environment behind, yet there are many factors...
Natural Hazard Mitigation
Recasting Disaster Policy And Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The first half of the 1990s saw the largest and mcostly floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the history of the United States. While natural hazards cannot be prevented, their human impacts can be greatly reduced through advance action that mitigates risks and reduces vulnerability.*Natural Hazard...
Connecting Places, Connecting People
A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities,...
by Hiriyappa B
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Strategic Management and Business Policy are changing fast and it generates new ideas, innovative strategies, practically managing the core resources and the establishment of the key platform for the development of business and brand. This book exceptionally fills the gap between theory such as generic,...
Agriculture in Urban Planning
Generating Livelihoods and Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...
Building a Successful Social Venture
A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**This is the first book on creating and running a social enterprise to combine theoretical discussions with current cases from around the world, filling a huge gap in the literature. It serves as an eminently practical blueprint for those who wish to build, sustain, and grow social ventures.
*Building...
Public Transport and its Users
The Passenger's Perspective in Planning and Customer Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment. However, the passenger's position as a customer is weakened by the dominance of monopolies, regulation and political influence in our public transport...
European Forest Recreation and Tourism
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. Planning and providing for this growing demand poses challenges that need to be addressed by managers and designers alike.
Based on a study of forest recreation from across...
Small Cities
Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change...
by David Walters
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.
In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means...
Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery
A Standards-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach details the process for building organizational resiliency and managing Emergency and Business Continuity programs. With over 30 years of experience developing plans that have been tested by fire, floods, and earthquakes,...