Planning category: 24680 books
Characterising Neighbourhoods
Exploring Local Assets of Community Significance
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
It is increasingly important to define what constitutes the unique character of our neighbourhoods, in order to identify what we value and should protect, to pinpoint areas for improvement and places which could be enhanced through sensitive change. But how do we define ‘character’ or a ‘sense...
The Global City and the Holy City
Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces...
by Peter Nijkamp, Adriaan Perrels
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Worldwide, urbanization is steadily increasing, yet many modern cities are becoming less and less able to accommodate the growth in their population. Congestion, pollution, low-quality housing, social fragmentation, noise, crime and inadequate social services all contribute to a declining quality...
Smart Growth
From Sprawl to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Smart Growth explains what the UK must do to improve the quality of life in an overcrowded land. Urban sprawl is unsustainable in an age of climate change and peak oil. But for 100 years, the UK’s planning policies have been based on ideals of low-density living and attitudes that favor the individual...
Planning the Great Metropolis
The 1929 regional plan of New York and its environs
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson’s critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this edition, the questions faced by the...
Small Change
About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
What exactly is 'small change'? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale...
by Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
CITYGREEN, winner of the APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for three consecutive years - 2014, 2013 and 2012, is a biannual publication of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore. It presents current research on greening and ecology of the urban environment, and features outstanding...
Sustainability in America's Cities
Creating the Green Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
"Sustainability" is more than the latest "green" buzzword. It represents a new way of viewing the interactions of human society and the natural world. Sustainability in America's Cities highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between developmand...
Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level
The Potential and Limitations of Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners. However, the question of what can planners contribute to the advancement of such notions has not received much attention until now. This volume examines the potential contribution of planning to the advancement of sustainability at sub-national...
Victory Lap Retirement, Second Edition
Work While You Play, Play While You Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
The key to a happy retirement may be . . . not retiring. Work because you want to, not because you have to, to achieve balance, health, and purpose in your life after full-time employment.
The rules of retirement have changed and there’s more at risk than ever. People are living longer and...
Readings in Urban Analysis
Perspectives on Urban Form and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis. The field of urban analysis is characterized by the multiplicity of approaches, philosophies, and methodologies employed in the examination of urban structure and urban problems. This fragmentation of perspectives...
Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges
From Local to Global and Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
�Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to...
Planning Democracy
Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control,...