City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Making Progress in Housing
A Framework for Collaborative Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book presents a new approach to housing research, one that is relevant to all the social sciences.
Housing research is diverse and operates across many disciplines, approaches and methods making collaboration difficult. This book outlines a methodological framework that enables researchers...
Metals and Society
An Introduction to Economic Geology
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
In the second edition Steve Kesler (University of Michigan) has been added as an author to rewrite some chapters. The motivation for this revised edition is to more intensively address economic issues that surround the exploitation of mineral resources. This emphasis gives the book a unique character....
Assessing European Neighbourhood Policy
Perspectives from the Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Several events in the past few years have dramatically shown how the interests of European citizens are directly affected by the stability, security and prosperity of their neighbouring regions. At the same time, the European Union and its member states face many challenges and dilemmas in designing...
L'urbanisation du monde
Les villes au défi
Language: French
Release Date: December 12, 2018
L’urbanisation du monde. Les villes au défi
Depuis 2007, plus de la moitié de la population mondiale vit en milieu urbain. Une révolution dans l’histoire de l’humanité, qui s’accompagne de nombreux défis, tant pour les pays du Nord déjà largement urbanisés que pour les sociétés...
by George C. Galster
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book investigates the efforts of homeowners to maintain and improve their dwellings. Their behavior, it has found, depends on economic variables as well as the sociological structure of their neighborhoods. Residential satisfaction, expectations of the neighborhood, and mobility plans were taken...
Dynamic land use/cover change modelling
Geosimulation and multiagent-based modelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The thesis is an original and novel contribution to land use/land cover change analysis using methods of geosimulation and agent-based modeling. The author implements several traditional methodologies of land use change by means of remote sensing and GIS techniques. An Agent-Based Model was developed...
Political Marketing: Theoretical and Strategic Foundations
Theoretical and Strategic Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This is the first integrated theory-to-practice text on marketing's role in the political process. It
Accessible Public Transportation
Designing Service for Riders with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The United States is home to more than 54 million people with disabilities. This book looks at public transit and transportation systems with a focus on new and emerging needs for individuals with disabilities, including the elderly. The book covers the various technologies, policies, and programs...
The Waste Crisis
Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1999
As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste. Yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to build new landfills, and the existing landfills are causing significant environmental damage. Finding solutions is not simple; the problem is enormous in size, vital in terms of...
Technology and World Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an interesting and informative manner. Technology and World Politics introduces its readers to different approaches to technology in global politics through a survey of emerging...
Boundary Retracement
Processes and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The survey and the transference are the distinctive and operative acts in the transmission of real property and, where they differ from each other, one must of necessity control the other. This book addresses the aforementioned concepts by external explanations in order to understand the discrepancies...
Shopping Choices with Public Transport Options
An Agenda for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas. Existing research on transport...
Rich Pictures
Encouraging Resilient Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential future situations, Rich Pictures provide a shared...
by David Tempelhoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Republication of a Thesis published at SUNY Maritime College. Tackles the problem of Global Maritime Piracy by developing security management principles. .