City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Snarl
In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Ruth A. Miller excavates a centuries-old history of nonhuman and nonbiological constitutional engagement and outlines a robust mechanical democracy that challenges existing theories of liberal and human political participation. Drawing on an eclectic set of legal, political, and automotive texts from...
Race and Racism in International Relations
Confronting the Global Colour Line
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
International Relations, as a discipline, does not grant race and racism explanatory agency in its conventional analyses, despite such issues being integral to the birth of the discipline. Race and Racism in International Relations seeks to remedy this oversight by acting as a catalyst for remembering,...
A Quiet Evolution
The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
This review of regional innovation assesses how to improve Catalonia's current strategy and actions in order to boost its innovation system through both its own programmes and those of Spain and the European Union.
It finds that with over seven million inhabitants and a GDP of around EUR 204...
Regions Matter
Economic Recovery, Innovation and Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Why do some regions grow faster than others, and in ways that do not always conform to economic theory? This is a central issue in today’s economic climate, when policy makers are looking for ways to stimulate new and sustainable growth.
OECD work suggests that there is no one-size-fits-all...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Despite macro-economic stability in recent years, Mexico still suffers from stagnant productivity growth. Mexico’s long-term competitiveness in a global context will require greater public and private action to spur innovation and economic growth in regions throughout the country. This report reviews...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2009
Piedmont is one of the top ten manufacturing regions in Europe and enjoys the highest levels of business investment in R&D in Italy. Birthplace of the most famous Italian automotive company - Fiat – and home to many heavy engineering and manufacturing firms, the region has long been a central...
Nincompoopolis
The Follies of Boris Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In a world where the built environment seems ever more shaped by invisible market forces, where modern architecture can seem to dissolve into a generic void, sometimes it takes a very special person to make a difference.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was Mayor of London from 2008 until...
Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb
Of Our Own Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans....
Speaking Green with a Southern Accent
Environmental Management and Innovation in the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they...
Aménagement du territoire
Changement de temps, changement d'espace
Language: French
Release Date: October 31, 2017
L'aménagement du territoire est une des grandes aventures, politique, économique et intellectuelle des cinquante dernières années. Avec les changements de temps et d'espace, et donc de société, il a évolué d'une conception hexagonale et centralisatrice vers des schémas nouveaux, où, au-delà...
Finance for housing
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts as new bonds. Austerity programmes are designed to reduce the borrowing that governments undertook to stabilise failing banking systems but the UK's Coalition government...
by Derwin Kitch
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Imagine opening your suitcase and having everything you need at your fingertips.
You can experience this by learning the secrets of a seasoned traveler.
Create your perfect packing list and save money with these complete and tested lists:
*Clothing
*Personal hygiene
*Miscellaneous items
*Traveling...
Make Housing Central
British Columbia and the Affordable Housing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Rapidly surging house prices, historically low rental vacancies, long waitlists for social housing, and a massive homelessness epidemic—all these have led to many British Columbians feeling trapped in their current housing situation. In Make Housing Central, Kishone Roy, CEO of the B.C. Non-Profit...