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Smart Tips for Estate Planning
For the Love of Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
What could be more tragic that having your life savings squandered and your family left unprotected? Many Canadians risk these consequences because they do not know how to plan for their estates after they die. With Smart Tips for Estate Planning, you will learn the critical knowledge necessary to maximize...
Evaluation in Planning
Evolution and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Evaluation is a critical stage in urban and regional planning and development, with the consideration of alternative proposals essential for informed debate and decision. Evaluation in planning has become even more important with the new paradigm attempting to integrate economic efficiency with equity,...
Connections
Exploring Contemporary Planning Theory and Practice with Patsy Healey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades. In this astonishing transition, the thinking and scholarship of Patsy Healey appears as a constantly recurring influence and inspiration around the globe....
Fuzzy Planning
The Role of Actors in a Fuzzy Governance Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Many of the key notions associated with spatial planning are essentially ’fuzzy’ in their nature. For example, while almost everyone accepts ’sustainability’ as an important goal of planning, the actions of the actors involved can render the achieved ’sustainability’ minimal, or even counterproductive....
Land Use and Spatial Planning
Enabling Sustainable Management of Land Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This bookreconciles competing and sometimes contradictory forms of land use, while also promoting sustainable land use options. It highlights land use planning, spatial planning, territorial (or regional) planning, and ecosystem-based or environmental land use planning as tools that strengthen land...
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning
Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory.
Represents the newest edition of the leading text in...
Malcolm McDonald on Marketing Planning
Understanding Marketing Plans and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
A primer for marketing professionals and students, the second edition of Malcolm McDonald On Marketing Planning provides a clear guide to marketing planning. Focusing on the practical application of marketing planning, this book will guide readers through the production of a marketing plan that has...
Planning for Diversity
Policy and Planning in a World of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The practical importance of diversity and equality for spatial planning and sustainable development is still not widely understood. Using international examples, this book shows planners and educationalists the benefits of building in a consideration of diversity and equality at each stage and level...
Planning for a City of Culture
Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and creating economic development strategies to build their brand, attract residents and tourists, and distinguish themselves from other urban centers worldwide....
Emergent Urbanism
Urban Planning & Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great majority of Australians live in a small number of large metropolitan areas focused on the state capital cities. The development and application of effective...
The Craft of Collaborative Planning
People working together to shape creative and sustainable places
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Unlike books that focus solely on methods, The Craft of Collaborative Planning provides a detailed guide to designing and managing all aspects of the collaborative process, advocating for making collaborative work the norm.
Beginning with a discussion of the political and legal context of collaborative...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. These innovations have led to new opportunities in this evolving profession. Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning brings together the efficiency...