City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First
Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. The inter-relationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development...
Frontier and Metropolis
Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1991
The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland...
by Bob Arnebeck
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 1994
This is the true story about how Washington, D.C. became the nation's capital. Arnebeck uncovers unknown information and chronicles the building of the city unlike anyone else.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This book highlights the electronic governance in a smart city through case studies of cities located in many countries. “E-Government” refers to the use by government agencies of information technologies (such as Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) that have the ability to...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Municipal image-building now promotes cities globally, and also to their own citizens. Image-building in Canadian Municipalities explores the decision making processes that determine how cities and towns choose to represent themselves. It also assesses the effectiveness of those processes and of the...
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...
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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,...
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"....
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...
Building a Collaborative Advantage
Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Homelessness is not a historical accident. We know that it is the disastrous outcome of policy decisions made over time and at several levels of government. Yet conventional theories in political science and public administration fail to explain why some approaches have worked while others have failed.
Drawing...
Spell of the Urubamba
Anthropogeographical Essays on an Andean Valley in Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path northward from the Andean Highlands...
by B.L Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Mr. Jefferson’s Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories is the second edition of an anthology that weaves together a rich tapestry of 68 short stories, agency memos, and letters of events that take place during the late seventies, eighties, and nineties as seen through Melba Farris’ eyes. Melba writes...
Aid Effectiveness in Africa
Developing Trust between Donors and Governments
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2004
A significant contribution to the ongoing debate on aid effectiveness, Aid Effectiveness in Africa starts from the premise that money alone will not bring sustained development to Africa. With grounding in years of experience and fieldwork, Phyllis R. Pomerantz examines the relationship between aid...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 51.66% of the population was born outside of the country or has at least one parent born abroad. Amsterdam is proud of its cultural and ethnical diversity and actively works to attract international students and high-skilled migrants. Like many European cities, Amsterdam...