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Planning Commissioners Guide
Processes for Reasoning Together
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Across the country, communities rely on their planning commissions for guidance. But who guides the planning commissioners?
This step-by-step guidebook gets new commissioners off on the right foot and helps experienced commission members navigate their roles. The authors, all practicing planners,...
Inclusive Urbanization
Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research in the Age of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
How do we include and represent all people in cities? As the world rapidly urbanizes, and climate change creates global winners and losers, understanding how to design cities that provide for all their citizens is of the utmost importance. Inclusive Urbanization attempts to not only provide meaningful,...
Cities on Rails
The Redevelopment of Railway Stations and their Surroundings
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects. Based on a series of the most inspiring contemporary European examples of station redevelopment, this book will help planners and urban designers understand the specific and complex nature...
Empowering Squatter Citizen
Local Government, Civil Society and Urban Poverty Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. The civil and political rights of these people are either ignored or constantly contravened. They face multiple deprivations, including hunger,...
by Eric Thomsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Global energy markets are rapidly turning away from fossil fuels towards wind and other competitively priced renewable sources. As renewables’ role in power generation expands, technology becomes an important enabler. Renewable energy hybrid solutions have significant potential to provide the...
A City Reframed
Managing Warsaw in the 1990's
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Management of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as compared to city planning and city governance. A study of Warsaw city management reveals the transformation process typically found in European countries in political and economic transition. In A City Reframed, Czarniawska conceptualises...
Towns and Cities
Competing for survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The last fifty years have seen dramatic changes in towns and cities. People have moved out of central urban areas, retailing has moved out of towns and jobs have also declined in city centres, particularly with the growth of business and science parks.
With the continuing decline of the manufacturing...
by Christopher Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
In 1945 the Labour Government set out to enable everyone to have a decent home, where people from all walks of life could live together. This dream was destroyed by a succession of avoidable mistakes and almost everyone now seems to believe that it is impossible to rediscover that vision. This book...
Urban Regeneration
Property Investment and Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process. It relates the physical, economic, financial and environmental aspects of urban change and development to the realities of particular cities by case studies drawn from Britain and Europe.
Of Planting and Planning
The making of British colonial cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries
This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at...
by Bill Lennertz, Aarin Lutzenhiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to successful charrettes -- those extended exercises that help citizens envision new possibilities for their communities. Based on a program developed by the National Charrette Institute, the book offers a three-phase approach to project management, describing...
Foundations of the Planning Enterprise
Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.. The first volume...
Council Housing and Culture
The History of a Social Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian online
Born of idealism, and once an icon of the Labour movement and pillar of the Welfare State, council housing is now nearing its end. But do its many failings outweigh its positive contributions to public health and wellbeing?
Alison...
Competitive Cities
Succeeding in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Competitive Citites is an assessment of the way in which `partnership', a word much used by politicians, has helped to shape the economic futures of four cities on both sides of the Atlantic - Atlanta, Toronto, Birmingham and Rotterdam.