City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Luca P. Marescotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The publishing program brings together new manuscripts (Teaching Land Use Planning as a Science, Landscapes, The Planner and the Small Planet) with the revision of two books published in 2004, “Città Tecnologie Ambiente (Cities Technologies Environment)” and in 2008, “Urbanistica. Fondamenti...
Vivons la ville autrement
Des villes durables où il fait bon vivre au quotidien
Language: French
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Les villes du futur ressembleront-elles au paradis sur Terre, assurant bien-être et santé à tous les citadins ?
La question peut surprendre, ville et santé n’ayant pas toujours fait bon ménage dans l’imaginaire collectif. Pourtant de Paris à Tokyo, en passant par Zurich ou – plus...
Little Pink House
A True Story of Defiance and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2009
SOON TO BE A MOTION PICTURE STARRING CATHERINE KEENER
"Catherine Keener nails the combination of anger, grace, and attitude that made Susette Kelo a nationally known crusader." -- Deadline Hollywood
Suzette Kelo was just trying to rebuild her life when she purchased a falling...
Social Value Investing
A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Social Value Investing presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges. Although many of our world’s problems may seem too great and too complex to solve — inequality, climate change, affordable housing, corruption, healthcare, food insecurity — solutions...
Building the Future
Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
**Building the Future
Machiavelli famously wrote, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
That's what this book is about—innovation far more...
Frameworks for Policy Analysis
Merging Text and Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Frameworks for Policy Analysis argues that, in order to bring relevance back to policy analysis, we need to approach policy situations as complex phenomena and employ multiple ways of looking at things in order to understand the essential elements of each policy case. The book is an exploration of...
New Orleans in the Atlantic World
Between Land and Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The thematic project ‘New Orleans in the Atlantic World’ was planned immediately after hurricane Katrina and focuses on what meteorologists have always known: the city’s identity and destiny belong to the broader Caribbean and Atlantic worlds as perhaps no other American city does. Balanced...
by Matthew Bokovoy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southwest and its peoples for the American public. The Panama-California Exposition of 1915-16 celebrated...
Governing Regional Development Policy
The Use of Performance Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
This report examines both the challenges and the opportunities associated with designing and using indicator systems as a tool for the governance of regional development policy. It draws on the experiences of a number of OECD countries and provides an in-depth look at the cases of Italy, the United...
Camera Constructs
Photography, Architecture and the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly influences how architecture is represented, imagined and produced. Camera Constructs is the first book to...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This report summarizes the proceedings of the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Urbanization workshop held in Beijing on 22-23 August 2013. Some 200 participants from the central government, 35 local governments, financiers, private service providers, academic and research institutions, and development...
The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention
Practical Planning Tools
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Violence and insecurity are among the most important issues facing communities in the 21st century. Both family violence and community violence are rapidly rising in the urbanizing nations of theSouth and richer nations are also facing increased concern about the health, social, economic and environmental...
Landscape Indicators
Assessing and Monitoring Landscape Quality
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
In recent years EU policy towards the ‘landscape’ has become better defined, whereas at the same time the notion of ‘landscape’ itself remains elusive. The need for indicators to evaluate and monitor the effects of landscape policies and plans is urgent. What is more, landscape is one of...
We Shall Not Be Moved
Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal...