City Planning category: 1330 books
Liveability in Singapore
Social and Behavioural Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning. Just like in other highly-urbanised cities, life and living in Singapore is highly dependent on many other dimensions such as health, access to...
Landscape Planning and Rural Development
Key Issues and Options Towards Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This book aims to contribute to the current debate on how to integrate rural development policies and landscape planning in rural areas. It highlights the key issues at stake and the possibilities for synergies between landscape planning and policies in light of European development policies, particularly...
Cities and the Politics of Difference
Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning...
Urban Wind Environment
Integrated Climate-Sensitive Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality. The ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate a paradigm shift from the conventional...
Planning for Climate Change
Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened its environmental dimension and has become a new rationale for coordinating actions and integrating different policy priorities.
This book sets out the economic, social and environmental...
Rebuilding Britain
Planning for a better future
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Britain faces extraordinary challenges, from climate change to growing inequality and global economics, but as a nation it has no plan for the future. This unique book asks a simple question: how can Britain organise itself, not just for survival but to build a fairer and sustainable society? The...
A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia
Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that...
by Andy Thornley
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade. Advances in communication technology, computing and air travel have all contributed to the establishment of what has been referred to as a 'network society' that encompasses the globe. Such arguments clearly have a significance on planning - an activity...
Planning Support Methods
Urban and Regional Analysis and Projection
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Planning Support Methods offers the only practical guide to the key methods of urban and regional planning. The authors apply and critically assess the most important methods for demographic and economic analysis and projection and land suitability analysis, providing an essential resource for practicing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The book aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes. The main issue is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory...
Complexity and Planning
Systems, Assemblages and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability. This book addresses the relationship between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. Three sections present empirical research and commentaries from leading academics...
Green Infrastructure Planning
Reintegrating Landscape in Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
What is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socioeconomic and ecological value does it provide? This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers, and environmentalists keen to understand how...
The Next American City
The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years.
Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size...