City Planning category: 1330 books
The Place of Home
English domestic environments, 1914-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses on the various influences bearing on the development of domestic space since 1914 and covers both design and housing policy. Current debates from participation to...
Investigating Quality of Urban Life
Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains. This book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are essential to meet the increasing water demands of the world and that their overall societal benefits far outweight the costs. In contrast, the...
World in Transition: Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions
Annual Report 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At the first Conference of the Parties of the Climate Convention in Berlin in Spring 1995 it became evident once again: To counteract anthropogenic climate changes, individuals as well as societies have to change their way of thinking and behavior. This accounts for other areas of global environmental...
by Lucia Lo, Valerie Preston, Paul Anisef
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region,...
New Money in Rural Areas
Land Investment in Europe and Its Place Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks. It explores the characteristics of investors in rural land and their motivations before undertaking an...
Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
Postcolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
International relations theory has broadened out considerably since the end of the Cold War. Topics and issues once deemed irrelevant to the discipline have been systematically drawn into the debate and great strides have been made in the areas of culture/identity, race, and gender in the discipline....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa examines how decision makers have managed and mismanaged public policy issues in sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses the neglected issue of how ideas about public policy are generated, by whom and for what purpose. Persistent problems such as political instability,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the...
A Conservative Consensus?
Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes...
Reconstructing Italy
The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book is the result of research into the considerable impacts the signing of the Schengen Agreement has had on the border regions of the signatory, in particular the Central European internal borders. The analysis provides an in-depth look at European integration, development and perception at...
Living in sin
Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet...
Decolonising Governance
Archipelagic Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated ‘parochially’...