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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic...
Japanese Gardens
Symbolism and Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview. This book takes a thorough look at the process of designing a Japanese garden, placing it in a historical and philosophical...
Working Capital
Life and Labour in Contemporary London
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
For decades the cities of the developed world were seen as problem-beset relics from times of low mobility and slow communications. But now, their potential to sustain creativity, culture and innovation is perceived as crucial to success in a much more competitive global ecomony. The vital requirement...
Planning Major Infrastructure
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform...
Focusing Partnerships
A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-private Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Despite the increasing occurrence of policies aimed at mobilising the financial and human resources of the private sector, most urban local governments responsible for urban basic services in the South do not have the capacity to initiate and sustain partnerships. Nor do they understand how they can...
Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges
From Local to Global and Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
�Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental...
Sustainable Solutions for Water Resources
Policies, Planning, Design, and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Get the single-source solutions guide to the sustainable management of water resources.
Why is water the environmental issue? The answer is simple: without it, life on this planet could not exist. Yet, despite this fact, reckless consumption practices from a growing population are drying up...
The Good City
Reflections and Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Cities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s...
Creating Rain Gardens
Capturing the Rain for Your Own Water-Efficient Garden
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
“A beautifully-written, practical guide to planning and creating your own rain garden.” —Green Upgrader
You probably spend hundreds of dollars watering your yard, but there is an easy way to save money and resources—by collecting rain to reuse in front and backyards. In Creating Rain...
Becoming Places
Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
About the practices and politics of place and identity formation – the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are – this book exposes the relations of place to power. It links everyday aspects of place experience to the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu in a very...
Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century
The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Across Europe, the number of co-housing initiatives is growing, and they are increasingly receiving attention from administrators and professionals who hold high expectations for urban liveability. Is co-housing a marginal idealist phenomenon, or the urban middle class’ answer to the current housing...
Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe
A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Changes
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Ideal for students and practitioners working in spatial planning, the Europeanization of planning agendas and regional policy in general Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe develops a systematic methodological framework to analyze changes in planning systems throughout Europe. The main...
The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment
Towards a More Systematic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
�Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer�s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of the subject will find the book essential.� Leonard Ortolano, Professor at Stanford University, USA...