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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery focuses on disaster recovery from the perspective of urban planning, an underutilized tactic that can significantly reduce disaster risks. The book examines disaster risk reduction (DRR), in particular, the recovery stage of what is widely known as the disaster...
Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning
Beyond the Flatlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up...
Countryside Planning
New Approaches to Management and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate. A watershed has now been reached, and in this time of unprecedented change, new tools are needed for planning and managing the countryside....
Markets, Politics and the Environment
An Introduction to Planning Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question:
What is planning?’ and as part of this ‘What are its key features as a style of social practice and action?’ and ‘How does planning as a style of social practice relate to social and economic change?
How, as part...
Planning World Cities
Globalization and Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning...
Transport Models in Urban Planning Practices
Tensions and Opportunities in a Changing Planning Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in decades of development work and are geared to offer value-free, academic and explicit knowledge to transport planning experts. However, planning practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This volume contains essays that examine contemporary urban and regional planning and development in China. Through in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis, it provides insights into the urban policies and operational mechanisms of this colossal transitional economy which has presented unprecedented...
The Power of Planning
Spaces of Control and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences of urban and regional planning. It...
Planning in Contemporary Africa
The State, Town Planning and Society in Cameroon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Why do authorities in post-colonial African states continue to employ European or Western planning models? What are the implications for different societal groups of adopting such models? Several decades following independence, this outstanding volume provides in-depth empirical research to uncover...
by Luigi La Riccia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning? What actions / rules are now achievable for the protection, planning and management of local-scale landscapes? The overall reflections gathered...
Infrastructure delivery planning
An effective practice approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This important text book is the first to be written about infrastructure planning in Britain. Written by an experienced author, the book reviews the rapid rise in the use of infrastructure delivery planning at national and neighbourhood level. The key components of infrastructure delivery are set...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The provision of infrastructure for urban developments is increasingly becoming a highly contentious and important issue in planning negotiations. By drawing together a range of case studies from North America, Australia and Europe, this book compares how a number of planning systems deal with this...
by Libby Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler...
Dutch Land-use Planning
The Principles and the Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of policies and practices. It gives an up-to-date account of the principles - written and unwritten - behind...