Regional Planning category: 486 books
by Bowie, Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK governments. From Blair’s New Labour and Cameron’s Coalition government to the 2016 Housing and Planning Act, Bowie demonstrates how successive governments have failed...
From an Ancient Road to a Cultural Route
Conservation and Management of the Road between Milas and Labraunda
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The main subject of the study is revealing “cultural routes”, by the evaluation of ancient roads which have cultural accumulation on and around them. Considering the unique character of cultural routes, their formation as a consequence of cultural accumulation in a region is the main objective...
Paradise Plundered
Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp...
The Peri-Urban Interface
Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland....
The Intercultural City
Planning for Diversity Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can cooperate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic...
Promoting walking and cycling
New perspectives on sustainable travel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Promoting walking and cycling proposes solutions to one of the most pressing problems in contemporary British transport planning. The need to develop more sustainable urban mobility lies at the heart of energy and environmental policies and has major implications for the planning of cities and for...
The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment
Towards a More Systematic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
�Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer�s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of the subject will find the book essential.� Leonard Ortolano, Professor at Stanford University, USA...
Beach Management
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book provides a wealth of case studies from the UK, USA, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and Latin America. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing...
by Panu Lehtovuori
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist. This book propounds that, at present, this process is conducted in an artificial reality, 'Concept City', characterized by a simplified and outdated conception of space. It...
The Suburban Land Question
A Global Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The purpose...
Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods
Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Given current projections of population and household numbers, housing has become arguably the most important issue in planning. Likewise, planning raises arguably the most important long term issues in housing, given the environmental consequences of urban development and the use of the home. Homes,...
by Kheir Al-Kodmany
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. This book explores the role of suburban tall as a viable, sustainable alternative to continued suburban sprawl. It...
Bicycle Urbanism
Reimagining Bicycle Friendly Cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. Much of the discussion surrounding cycling has focused on bicycle facility design—how...
by Charles Landry
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st...