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Encounters in Planning Thought

16 Autobiographical Essays from Key Thinkers in Spatial Planning

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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017

Encounters in Planning Thought builds on the intellectual legacy of spatial planning through essays by leading scholars from around the world, including John Friedmann, Peter Marcuse, Patsy Healey, Andreas Faludi, Judith Innes, Rachelle Alterman and many more. Each author provides a fascinating and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Innovative Cities presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart. Based on research funded by the ESRC program on 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion', it compares and contrasts the reasons why these sites are among the top ten innovative...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014

Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students...
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Politics and Preservation

A policy history of the built heritage 1882-1996

by John Delafons, J. Delafons
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005

This book traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process and both are set in their political context. Part One deals with the origins of conservation and its cultural background. Part Two deals with the post-war legislation and the increasing scope...
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Approaching Urban Design

The Design Process

by Marion Roberts, Clara Greed
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014

This companion to Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses shows how the principles and concepts of urban design can be applied and implemented in a range of real-world settings.
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by Robert Mark Silverman, Kelly L. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners. This book teaches students entering planning, community development, nonprofit management, social work, and similar...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning...
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Introduction to Rural Planning

Economies, Communities and Landscapes

by Nick Gallent, Iqbal Hamiduddin, Meri Juntti
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community action shape rural spaces.  The second edition provides an examination of the composite nature of ‘rural...
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Creative Community Planning

Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge

by Wendy Sarkissian, Christine Wenman
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010

Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework. Leading...
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The Compact City

A Sustainable Urban Form?

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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

This book presents the latest thinking on the benefits and dangers of higher density urban living. It offers diverse opinions and research, from a wide range of disciplines, and gives an insight into both the theoretical debate and the practical challenges surrounding the compact city. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in sustainable urban development.
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by Philip Allmendinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002

Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective...
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The Enterprising City Centre

Manchester's Development Challenge

by Gwyndaf Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003

The Enterprising City Centre reveals exemplars of local partnership working, the development and delivery of realistic implementation plans, and the range of instruments available to create both an improved quality to the urban environment and enhanced commercial and cultural competitiveness of our...
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Selling Places

The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850-2000

by Stephen Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005

Selling Places explores the fascinating development of the place marketing and promotion over the last 150 years, drawing on examples from Northern America, Britain and continental Europe. The processes involved and the promotional imagery employed are meticulously presented and richly illustrated.
Cover of Transport Planning for Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals)
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013

Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries. Rates of growth are usually much more dramatic, housing and transport are often provided informally, and institutional support for urban management is also much weaker....
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