Regional Planning category: 486 books
Reclaiming Backlanes
Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?
Reclaiming...
Squatter Citizen
Life in the Urban Third World
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide...
by Matthias Kowald, Kay W. Axhausen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In aiming to understand and model peoples’ out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. Firstly, leisure travel is increasing in importance and is more complex and variable than work-related travel, being less rigid in temporal and spatial...
Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities
Urban Planning, Environmental Health and Hygiene in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In recent years, Dutch environmental policy has undergone some pivotal changes, the most significant of which have been decentralization and deregulation, encouraging local communities to develop and deliver policies which are tailor-made to their particular situation. These changes have led to the...
Children's Participation
The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
People's relationship to nature is the greatest issue facing the world at the turn of the millennium, and all over the world young people have shown enormous enthusiasm for environmental action. Many countries are radically reassessing both the role of citizens in managing their environment and the...
The New Wealth of Cities
City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Over the past two decades, city economies have restructured in response to the decline of older industries. This has involved new forms of planning and urban economic development, a return to traditional concerns of city building and a focus on urban design. During this period, there has also been...
by Junichiro Okata
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Systems of transportation long ago developed out of the profound human need to connect and communicate. Transport today is still the only means for the physical movement of goods and people. Alongside the evolution of transportation and communication technologies, the astounding phenomenon of urbanization...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century. As yet, no collection has gathered these experiences together to consider their contribution to planning. Juxtaposing examples of green...
Politics Across the Hudson
The Tappan Zee Megaproject
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The State of New York is now building one of the world’s longest, widest, and most expensive bridges—the new Tappan Zee Bridge—stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson, urban planner Philip Plotch...
The Blitz and its Legacy
Wartime Destruction to Post-War Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the subsequent reconstruction of cities, especially as many of the buildings and areas rebuilt after the Second World War are now facing demolition and reconstruction...
by Harvey S. Moskowitz, Carl G. Lindbloom, David Listokin
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The latest edition of The Illustrated Book of Development Definitions breaks new ground. It addresses traditional and new planning problems: natural and industrial disasters such as hurricanes and oil spills; new housing types and living accommodations; changes in urban design and practice like new...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This report illustrates the current state of inclusive business (IB) models in the Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies, particularly the market potentials, constraints, and necessary policy instruments for an enabling environment for IB. A profile of IB initiatives, the overview of...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Greater Mekong Subregion Human Resource Development Strategic Framework and Action Plan (2013–2017) reflects changing circumstances, including the development of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) economic corridors as an important GMS priority. The goal of the human resource development strategy...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Making a detailed contribution to geographies of air transport and aeromobility, this book examines the practices and processes that produce particular patterns of air transport provision both regionally and globally. In so doing, it updates the seminal contributions of Eva Taylor (1945), Kenneth...