Planning category: 24680 books
Rural Change and Planning
England and Wales in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
This book provides a critical overview of rural change over the eighty years since the outbreak of the Great War, making clear the historical origins of present-day policy. It also provides a structural integration for the many diverse themes which must be interwoven in order to understand current conditions in the countryside.
Gridlock
Congested Cities, Contested Policies, Unsustainable Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in traffic management and transit congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies. In Gridlock:...
Lost in the Transit Desert
Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence...
Participatory processes and spatial planning. The Regional Landscape Plan of Sardinia, Italy
The Regional Landscape Plan of Sardinia, Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book examines the evolution of the concept of participation by underlining its theoretical and technical pros and cons. Moreover, it puts in evidence that participatory processes in public decision-making show significant implementation difficulties. In this context, the book examines the emblematic...
by Amanda Bryan, Leonard D. DuBoff
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
“Well written and logically organized.” —Booklist
In The Law (in Plain English)® for Small Business, Fifth Edition, Leonard DuBoff and Amanda Bryan guide entrepreneurs and small business owners through the maze of legal obligations and protections they need to understand. This handbook...
by Peter Hagstrom, Sarah Hagstrom
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
As fellow entrepreneurs, we know how work can take ahold of you. Just one more email, one more social media post, one more… and next thing you know you’ve been sitting at your computer for 6 hours, it’s 2pm, you haven’t showered/went to the bathroom, or (god forbid) made lunch! So you open the...
Urban Governance and Informal Settlements
Lessons from the City of Jayapura, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2019
The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries. Set within the context of understanding urban planning and management within the wider city setting,...
by Reid Ewing, Shima Hamidi
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impact has become pivotal to urban planning. A decade and a half ago, Smart Growth America and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sought to raise the level of the debate by sponsoring groundbreaking research to quantitatively measure...
by Helmut E. Landsberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1981
The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create...
The Blitz and its Legacy
Wartime Destruction to Post-War Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the subsequent reconstruction of cities, especially as many of the buildings and areas rebuilt after the Second World War are now facing demolition and reconstruction...
Israel’s Invisible Negev Bedouin
Issues of Land and Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel's Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population. In 1948, the Israeli government relocated this population from the Negev region to settlements in Siyag. The explicit...
by Peter C Bosselmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regionsis about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades to come, climate change will affect cities everywhere, but nowhere have the effects of climate change already been felt as strongly as in low-lying coastal...
Flawed but Willing
“...stimulating, challenging, moving, satisfying, troubling, motivating, energising and mindset changing.”
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Instability, disturbance, emergence, networks, informal learning, trial, error, adaptability, low growth, fl uctuation and momentum these are the experiences that dominate the lives of today’s business leaders.There is a growing awareness that the old industrial constructs of detailed planning,...
Power Talk
Insights from Asia's Leading Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
What drives success in Asia?
How did the pioneers do what they did, how are they planning their succession?
What are their views on life and family?
After six seasons of Channel News Asia's Power List Asia, with 73 episodes high-powered guests, over 26,000 manhours of pre- and...