Regional Planning category: 486 books
Frameworks for Policy Analysis
Merging Text and Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Frameworks for Policy Analysis argues that, in order to bring relevance back to policy analysis, we need to approach policy situations as complex phenomena and employ multiple ways of looking at things in order to understand the essential elements of each policy case. The book is an exploration of...
Civitas by Design
Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these...
Cities in a Globalizing World
Global Report on Human Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central...
Transforming Distressed Global Communities
Making Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters....
Strategic Environmental Assessment
A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends...
Public Transport and its Users
The Passenger's Perspective in Planning and Customer Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment. However, the passenger's position as a customer is weakened by the dominance of monopolies, regulation and political influence in our public transport...
Sustainable Communities
The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way. It will be of immense benefit, not only to town planners but also to al those professional and voluntary groups and politicians who seek to create the new communities of tomorrow' From the Foreword...
Small Change
About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
What exactly is 'small change'? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale...
Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges
From Local to Global and Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
�Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental...
Planning Democracy
Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control,...
by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at...
Designing High-Density Cities
For Social and Environmental Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open...
Intermodal Freight Terminals
A Life Cycle Governance Framework
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Much work has been done on port governance yet little has addressed intermodal terminal governance, despite the clear similarities. This book fills that gap by establishing a governance framework for situating analysis of intermodal terminals throughout their life cycle. A version of the product life...
Urban Transport Environment and Equity
The Case for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach....