Planning category: 24680 books
Ways of Residing in Transformation
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfolding diversity of residential architecture and spatially restructured cities. The complexity of urban and societal processes behind these changes requires...
GDF - Green Density Factor and GCF - Green Cooling Factor
A specific calculation method to integrate green roofs, green facades and their evapotranspiration cooling rate into the general planning procedure of architects and planners
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The GDF and GCF are two factors invented and designed by German Architect and Developer Florian Betzler. They demonstrate the possibilities to cool the microclimates of hot cities and let estates function as cooling units within an overheated climate for any city, starting from a small scale and ending...
The Ontario Municipal Board
From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The Ontario Municipal Board attracted power to it from the time it was formed in 1906 as a railway overseer and thereafter until 1932 when it became the regulatory tribunal for municipal financing and urban and regional planning applications. By 2006, the same government of Ontario that had entrusted...
Flow Posing
The Practical Guide for Wedding Photographers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Wedding Photographers Guide Using Flow Posing is a unique guide on how to plan and photograph weddings, but it's not about the equipment, its about the process.
Built around the concept of Flow Posing and how it can be used in both pre wedding and engagement photo planning. Johnnie...
by Keith Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects. Drawing widely on the literature - the approach and treatment are very much geared to the needs of students on courses, rather than focusing on practical and "how-to-do-it" issues....
Good Urbanism
Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
We all have a natural nesting instinct—we know what makes a good place. And a consensus has developed among urban planners and designers about the essential components of healthy, prosperous communities. So why aren’t these ideals being put into practice?
In Good Urbanism, Nan Ellin identifies...
by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial...
Coastal Towns in Transition
Local Perceptions of Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2009
Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and the "sea change phenomenon" – the migration of affluent urbanites to small coastal towns seeking beautiful, natural surroundings. In response to these changes...
by Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a noted...
Planning, Risk and Property Development
Urban regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in Europe’s cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and public goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and strategies of the actors engaging in these...
Roads to Prosperity
Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities explores the relative prosperity of midsize Canadian urban areas (population 50,000 to 400,000) over the past two decades. Communities throughout North America have strived for decades to maintain and enhance the prosperity...
The Making of Grand Paris
Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.
In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced,...
by Mike Biddulph
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas.
Mike Biddulph provides a clear and coherent framework...
City as Landscape
A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In twenty essays, this book covers aspects of planning, architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, park and garden design. Their approach, described as post-postmodern, is a challenge to the 'anything goes' eclecticism of the merely postmodern.