Planning category: 24680 books
by Manuel Braschi
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Introduction
You've worked hard all your life and one day the big day will arrive – you'll retire. For now it probably still seems a long way into the future, but the reality is that the sooner you get ready for retirement, the more you'll benefit when that day comes.
Yes, financial...
Plan Your Retirement Before College
Retire Young and Stay Rich Forever
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
If college was meant to prepare you for the future, how the heck are most of the richest American entrepreneurs, in the 21st century, COLLEGE DROPOUTS?
If you do not intend to work real hard all through your life and end up living in misery on retirement then this book is for you.
In...
Understanding TIAA-CREF
How to Plan for a Secure and Comfortable Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
TIAA-CREF is the largest private pension plan in the world, with more than $260 billion under management, including an estimated 1% of all shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange. And yet, while there is a wealth of information on IRAs, 401(k)s and other investment vehicles, until now there has...
by Suzie Louis
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Everything you need to know and a step by step how to guide to setting up and running your own market, fair or fete from the nuts and bolts of dealing with local authorities to attracting stallholders and advertising in the age of social media. The book was written by a novice market organiser who...
The Multilingual Dictionary of Real Estate
A guide for the property professional in the Single European Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
The Multilingual Dictionary of Real Estate" is not simply a word-for-word dictionary of specialist and technical terminology. It offers explanations of terms which cannot be translated exactly or are liable to cause confusion. A supplementary section of the dictionary provides detailed notes...
Walkable City Rules
101 Steps to Making Better Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
"Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work.”
—David Owen, staff writer at the New Yorker
Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles...
Tactical Urbanism
Short-term Action for Long-term Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives—have become a powerful and adaptable new...
by Daniel Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
"This is a book about the making of cities and the buildings that compose them. It is about the conditions under which an architect engaged in those activities now works, how those conditions evolved and why they are changing. It is about the qualities of life that are threatened by the ways cities...
Visualizing the Data City
Social Media as a Source of Knowledge for Urban Planning and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present...
When Architecture Meets Activism
The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban...
by Paola Signoretta, Kate McMahon Moughtin, J.C. Moughtin
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
'Urban Design: Health and the Therapeutic Environment' demonstrates how urban design and planning impact on public health and sustainable development. Moughtin et al. explore the concept of what makes a physically and psychologically ‘healthy’ environment in the context of the paramount need for...
Community Architect
The Life and Vision of Clarence S. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Clarence S. Stein (1882–1975) was an architect, housing visionary, regionalist, policymaker, and colleague of some of the most influential public figures of the early to mid-twentieth century, including Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye. Kristin E. Larsen's biography of Stein comprehensively examines...
by Thomas A. Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural...