City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Bulldozer Revolutions
A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.
Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen...
Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading...
Making Strategies in Spatial Planning
Knowledge and Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such...
Dutch Land-use Planning
The Principles and the Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Dutch planning is widely known and admired for its ambitions and its achievements. This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive description and analysis in English of its full range of policies and practices. It gives an up-to-date account of the principles - written and unwritten - behind...
Venice in Environmental Peril?
Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice’s environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
The radical transformation that Spanish rural areas have experienced in the past few decades suggest, as it has occurred in many OECD countries, a new approach to rural policy. Spain has recently undertaken a major reform of its rural policies, including the merger of the Ministry of Agriculture with...
by Georgia Butina Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Can conservation of the built heritage be reconciled with the speed of urban change in cities of the developing world? What are the tools of sustainable design and how can communities participate in the design of the environments in which they live and work? These are some of the questions explored...
The collaborating planner?
Practitioners in the neoliberal age
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a greater pace of reform to planning in Britain than at any other time. As a public sector activity, planning has also been impacted heavily by the wider changes in the way we are governed. Yet whilst such reform has been extensively commented upon...
Rusted Off
Why country Australia is fed up
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Telling the story of Australia as it is today, Gabrielle Chan has gone hyper-local. In Rusted Off, she looks to her own rural community's main street for answers to the big questions driving voters. Why are we so fed up with politics? Why are formerly rusted-on country voters deserting major parties...
Urban Health
Erkenntnisse zur Gestaltung einer „gesunden“ Stadt
Language: German
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Wolfgang Schlicht stellt das Forschungsgebiet Urban Health, im Deutschen auch StadtGesundheit, vor, in dem er zu Beginn einen kurzen Abriss zur Geschichte der Stadt, zu Leitbildern der Stadtgestaltung und zu Urban Health gibt. Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse zu Stadtmerkmalen, die Gesundheit beeinträchtigen...
Tom Gilmartin
The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
A successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians and public officials would want a slice of the action … in the form...
by Carol M. Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Fontenot
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 homes and 986 lives. In particular, the devastation hit the vulnerable communities the hardest: the old, the poor and the African American. The disaster...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Hugh P. Possingham Landscape-scale conservation planning is coming of age. In the last couple of decades, conservation practitioners, working at all levels of governance and all spatial scales, have embraced the CARE principles of conservation planning – Comprehensiveness, Adequacy, Representativeness,...
by Gavin Parker, Kat Salter, Matthew Wargent
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Neighbourhood Planning (NP), introduced by the Localism Act of 2011, is the right for communities to decide the future of the places where they live and work. This book examines the experience of neighborhood planners, analyzing what communities have achieved, how they have done so, and what went...