City Planning category: 1330 books
Living with the Unexpected
Linking Disaster Recovery to Sustainable Development in Montserrat
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In 1980 my parents took me to St Lucia for the spring holidays. These vaca tions had - in the sense of the butterfly effect - considerable influence on my further curriculum. In the course of time I carried out many other journeys to the Caribbean. My colleagues even speak of an advancing "Caribbeanisation"....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development...
More than the Soil
Rural Change in SE Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
More than the Soil focuses on the social, cultural, economic and technological processes that have transformed rural areas of Southeast Asia. The underlying premise is that rural lives and livelihoods in this region have undergone fundamental change. No longer can we assume that rural livelihoods...
Regionalizing Oman
Political, Economic and Social Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
This volume addresses the historical structures and current dynamics of Oman’s regionalization processes and their political, economic and social dimensions. It is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-regional dialogue between scholars from different social sciences and area studies such as political...
Below the Radar
How Silence Can Save Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
In 1993, the nation exploded into anti-same sex marriage fervor when the Hawaii Supreme Court issued its decision to support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Opponents feared that all children, but especially those raised by lesbian or gay couples, would be harmed by the possibility...
Ethics As Foreign Policy
Britain, The EU and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Ethical foreign policy has often been considered utopian, unrealistic and potentially very dangerous. Dan Bulley argues for a reconceptualisation of ethics as foreign policy, as both look to how we can, and ought to, relate to others.
Inspired by the deconstructive thought of Jacques Derrida,...
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3
The Toolkit for Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course. It reveals how and why squatting...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2019
Recent rapid housing market expansion in China is presenting new challenges for policy makers, planners, business people, and citizens. Now that housing in middle-income China is driven by consumer choices and is no longer dominated by state policy decisions, housing policy issues in Chinese cities...
Is America Safe?
Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Emergency Preparedness
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
As potential targets such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are 'hardened' against possible terrorist attacks, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers,...
by Dulyapak Preecharushh
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Naypyidaw: The New Capital of Burma examines the possible factors involved in the current relocation of the capital in order to enrich and enhance understanding about contemporary Burma/Myanmar in various aspects - including History, Geography, Political Science, Military Science, Economics, Sociology...
Administrative Discretion in Action
A Narrative of Eminent Domain
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This book is about changing the way we do public administration. It is about the wielding of administrative discretion in the implementation of a constitutional power: eminent domain, taking private property for public use. Administrative Discretion in Action: A Narrative of Eminent Domain, emphasizes...
Responses to Disasters and Climate Change
Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
As the global climate shifts, communities are faced with a myriad of mitigation and adaptation challenges. These highlight the political, cultural, economic, social, and physical vulnerability of social groups, communities, families, and individuals. They also foster resilience and creative responses....
Coping with Adversity
Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors...