City Planning category: 1330 books
My Backyard Jungle
The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation...
Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First
Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. The inter-relationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development...
by Peter Moreira
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This hard-hitting but fair assessment of Nova Scotia and the Maritimes will shock and surprise many Maritimers who have been conditioned to think that the east coast of Canada is one of the most livable regions in the country. Author Peter Moreira, a native Maritimer who returned home after working...
Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Geographical Transformation Process
GIS-based Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Currently, spatial analysis is becoming more important than ever because enormous volumes of spatial data are available from different sources, such as GPS, Remote Sensing, and others.
This book deals with spatial analysis and modelling. It provides a comprehensive discussion of spatial analysis,...
Europeanization of the Western Balkans
Environmental Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
The book analyses the changing roles of international agencies, governmental bodies, non-governmental organisations, and local communities around major road-building environmental impact assessment processes in order to examine whether the influence of the European Union has transformed environmental governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Serbia.
New Cities and Community Extensions in Egypt and the Middle East
Visions and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book seeks to push forward the boundaries of current practices and knowledge to embrace innovative solutions, novel approaches, and grounded technologies within realistic comprehension of economic risks and environmental implications. It investigates different scales and situations, various urban...
Frontier and Metropolis
Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1991
The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland...
Legitimacy and Urban Governance
A Cross-National Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement.
It explores the nature of the interaction between community involvement and political leadership in modern local governance by drawing on empirical...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth. An important element of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community, the GMS is expected to catch up with the rest of Asia by...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents the theory and methodology of geographical data acquisition, providing comprehensive coverage ranging from the definition of geo-referencing systems and transformation between these systems to the acquisition of geographical data using different methods. The material provides readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
This book presents approaches to landscape modelling not only from geography but also from various related disciplines, especially from applied mathematics, computer science, and geophysics. New methods of terrain representation, analysis and classification are presented as well as short- and long-term...
Chiral Environmental Pollutants
Trace Analysis and Ecotoxicology
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This monograph contains a survey on the role of chirality in ecotoxicological processes. The focus is on environmental trace analysis. Areas such as toxicology, ecotoxicology, synthetic chemistry, biology, and physics are also covered in detail in order to explain the different properties of enantiomers...
Engineers and Communities
Transforming Sanitation in Contemporary Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Access to water and sanitation service in industrialized countries is nearly taken for granted, but in many developing countries less than half of the population has access to such services. Decades of effort on a global scale have been invested to solve this problem. One such effort—Brazil’s...
Where We Live: Communities for All Ages
100+ Inspiring Ideas from Americas Mayors
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
"This collection of more than 100 innovative and inspirational ideas from America's mayors is a perfect springboard for creative thinking. It can help all of us play a role in imagining new solutions to a complex challenge."- David Kelley, Founder and Chairman of IDEO and Founder of Stanford's...