Planning category: 24680 books
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
Beijing, Chicago, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Cities are the world's future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow. Will we invest in the physical and social...
Sustainable Communities
Creating a Durable Local Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
With a foreword written by Senator Bernie Sanders
What is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions.
Citing Burlington, Vermont's...
by Carol M. Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Fontenot
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 homes and 986 lives. In particular, the devastation hit the vulnerable communities the hardest: the old, the poor and the African American. The disaster...
by Judith K De Jong
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Historically, we see the city as the cramped, crumbling core of development and culture, and the suburb as the vast outlying wasteland – convenient, but vacant. Contemporary urban design proves this wrong. In New SubUrbanisms, Judith De Jong explains the on-going "flattening" of the American...
The University and Urban Revival
Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards....
by Brad Schepp, Debra Schepp
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2009
“How Can I Profit from YouTube®?”
Ever since its creation in 2005 the video-sharing phenomenon has been newsworthy not only for videos: users were making media appearances about how they parlayed their hobbies into six-figure incomes, but they’ve been tight-lipped when it comes to their...
The Self-Employment Survival Guide
Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2018
Anyone who opts for self-employment quickly learns that succeeding as your own boss is no walk in the park. While professional freedom has many, many joys, it also involves significant risks. If you’re considering self-employment, or you’re already self-employed, The Self-Employment Survival Guide:...
Above the Fray
Leading Yourself, Your Business and Others During Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The premise of "Above the Fray" is that the Information Age is creating a turbulence most business owners fail to acknowledge or take steps to profitably manage. "Above the Fray" offers a method of creating a vision that produces clarity. It teaches how to create plans with a bias...
How To Become A Successful Bodyguard
Alternative Careers Series, #6
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Many people believe that bodyguards lead exciting lives and the job is one that anyone who is tough, strong or intimidating could do well at. The truth is, becoming a successful bodyguard requires much more than martial arts skills and an imposing presence!
The job of a bodyguard is one that...
Resilient Downtowns of Small Urban Communities
A New Approach to Revitalizing Small- and Medium-City Downtowns
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for...
The Economics of Transport
A Theoretical and Applied Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book provides an explanation of key underlying economic principles, allowing the reader to come to a better understanding of the critical factors that structure and guide transport markets. This is done through an examination of the interaction between the behaviour of individual users and providers...
Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition
Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more...
Suburban Remix
Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that powered sprawl have all but disappeared. Instead, new forces are transforming real estate markets, reinforced by new ideas of what constitutes healthy...