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Intermodal Freight Terminals
A Life Cycle Governance Framework
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Much work has been done on port governance yet little has addressed intermodal terminal governance, despite the clear similarities. This book fills that gap by establishing a governance framework for situating analysis of intermodal terminals throughout their life cycle. A version of the product life...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The collection of texts in this anthology traces the evolution of urban policy as an academic discipline and places the dynamics of this policy in its socio-political context. The approach is chronological.The first section is an outline of the evolution of urbanization and the transformation of the...
Towns and Cities: Function in Form
Urban Structures, Economics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a theory of the form of the town at all...
by Ran Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making...
Urban Transport Environment and Equity
The Case for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach....
Urban Archaeology, Municipal Government and Local Planning
Preserving Heritage within the Commonwealth of Nations and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Improving the relationship between archaeology and local government represents one of the next great challenges facing archaeology –specifically archaeology done in urban settings. Not only does local government have access to powerful legal tools and policy mechanisms that can offer protection...
On the Waterfront
The Unlikely Story of How a Small Public Agency with Few Powers and Precarious Funding Managed To Change a City
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For more than 220 years since the early days of York, in fact the city's leaders and citizens have dreamed, planned and argued about the waterfront. For a long time, the results weren't pretty: from industrial sprawl and the Gardiner Expressway to the more recent "condo curtain," each generation seemed...
(Re)Generating Inclusive Cities
Poverty and Planning in Urban North America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
As suburban expansion declines, cities have become essential economic, cultural and social hubs of global connectivity. This book is about urban revitalization across North America, in cities including San Francisco, Toronto, Boston, Vancouver, New York and Seattle. Infrastructure projects including...
At Road's End
Transportation And Land Use Choices For Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
At Road's End is a timely guide to a new era of holistic transportation. It presents new models for transportation planning, describes effective strategies for resolving community disputes, and offers inspiration by clearly demonstrating that new ways of planning and implementing transportation systems can work.
Reinterpreting Sub-Saharan Cities through the Concept of Adaptive Capacity
An Analysis of Autonomous Adaptation in Response to Environmental Changes in Peri-Urban Areas
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This book explores whether and how a reinterpretation of Sub-Saharan cities, through the concept of adaptive capacity, could bridge this distance and contribute to a new understanding of the contemporary city. The research contributes to improved knowledge of urban and environmental planning and of...
Emergency Preparedness
A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property and Business Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Emergency Preparedness: A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property, and Business Continuity provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters. It helps the reader to create an organization-wide emergency management plan that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
The cities of the Pacific Rim are in one of the most dynamic spheres of the global economy. In the twenty first century the focus of global affairs is destined to shift from the West to the East. These cities offer a wide range of different responses to the demands that rapid growth puts on planning...
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village
Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible...
by Stephen Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to ‘placemaking’ and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we...