Regional Planning category: 486 books
Urban Livelihoods
A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
One of the most promising approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor. This takes account of their opportunities and assets and the sources of their vulnerability. Based on recent and extensive research, this volume thoroughly assesses...
The Metropolitan Airport
JFK International and Modern New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was...
by Donald F. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local...
City-Region 2020
Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance to ensure a higher standard of living and safe environment....
London's Turning
The Making of Thames Gateway
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens through which to look at a series of important...
by William M Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A presentation of detailed comparative research into the implementation in 11 European countries of Local Agenda 21 - the action plan for sustainable development at community level. Overviews of implementation in each country are accompanied by analysis of positive and negative changes, as well as...
The Construction of Built Heritage
A North European Perspective on Policies, Practices and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlands - this captivating book explores the process of heritage conservation from theoretical initiation to practical expression. It traces the threads from...
Urban Rhythms and Travel Behaviour
Spatial and Temporal Phenomena of Daily Travel
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The recent availability of longitudinal data on individual trip making and activity behaviour has provided analysts with new insights into the structures and motives of daily life travel. Multi-week travel diary data-sets and GPS observations are exciting sources of information for the description...
International Exhibitions and Urbanism
The Zaragoza Expo 2008 Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
International Exhibitions and Urbanism provides an insightful and comprehensive historical review of international exhibitions in its first half, which is then illustrated with a thorough technical analysis of the Zaragoza 2008 project in its second half. The first half offers a comparative analysis...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), there are over 500 special economic zones (SEZs) and industrial zones located near GMS economic corridors and covering over 50 million people. This proposed health impact assessment (HIA) framework recognizes these SEZs and economic corridors as economic...
City Branding and Promotion
The Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This book explores theoretical concepts of strategic promotion and place branding in cities. It outlines the issues associated with strategic management of urban territories and highlights various types of development strategies that seek to encourage socio-economic development, growth and city branding,...
by Gaëtan Lafrance, Julie Lafrance
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Un impressionnant tour d’horizon des initiatives actuelles de développement urbain dans le monde occidental.
Città e parchi
Idee e percorsi critici nella riqualificazione urbana e ambientale
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
I più recenti studi di ricerca e le ultime conferenze internazionali sul tema dei Parchi Metropolitani e Periurbani hanno sempre più posto l’accento sui rapporti di integrazione fra aree naturali protette e sistemi urbanizzati contermini e sulle positive ricadute che la pianificazione ambientale...
by Helen Roby
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
A Supplementary Dictionary of Renewable Energy and Sustainability consists of 600 A to Z entries relating to these subjects, including the terms associated with fossil- and nuclear-fuelled energy systems; renewable energy sources such as solar thermal, bioenergy, tidal power and wind power; and energy costings.