Landscape category: 1155 books
Leading with Aesthetics
The Transformational Leadership of Charles M. Vest at MIT
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Leading with Aesthetics: The Transformational Leadership of Charles M. Vest at MIT examines the role of aesthetics, design, and architecture in organizational transformation and leadership, particularly in the context of academic institutions. Leadership has been thus far predominantly examined from...
Race and Planning
The UK Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Drawing on a number of research studies of planning and urban policy, ace and Planning asks why racial equality has not been higher on professional and government agendas, and suggests strategies for those working on change. It considers key issues such as how planning activities might lead to more...
Emerging Urbanity
Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Discussions on the global economy focus on the hyper-mobility of capital, the possibility of instantaneous transmission of information and money around the globe, the centrality of information outputs to our economic systems and emphasise the neutralisation of geography and of places. What is ignored,...
by Phil Allmendinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed. Once a system for regulating and balancing change in the built and natural environments in the public interest, planning now finds itself facilitating development...
Homeland
Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal, Realty Today reported ‘Israel is facing a housing crisis with …[the] home inventory lacking 100,000 apartments… House prices, which have more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest back in 2011’.
As Yael Allweil...
Planning the Good Community
New Urbanism in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities.
With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe...
by Andreas Faludi
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This book examines the most recent of these, the concept of territorial cohesion.
Territorial cohesion is the pursuit of balanced development, competitiveness,...
Countryside Planning
New Approaches to Management and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate. A watershed has now been reached, and in this time of unprecedented change, new tools are needed for planning and managing the countryside....
The Routledge Handbook of Community Development
Perspectives from Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world. The book provides perspectives about community development as an interactive, relevant and sometimes contradictory way to address issues impacting the human condition. It promotes better...
Re-Framing Urban Space
Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious...
Remaking Cities (Routledge Revivals)
Contradictions of the Recent Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975. Always a fine balance between central control and market forces, it was challenged by strains within and between the environmental professions...
The Place of Home
English domestic environments, 1914-2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses on the various influences bearing on the development of domestic space since 1914 and covers both design and housing policy. Current debates from participation to...
Sustaining Urban Networks
The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.
Global City Regions
Their Emerging Forms
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A unique comparative study based on funded research, of eleven city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last 30 years. Detailed changes in land use are presented here with series of maps prepared especially for the study. The socio-economic and physical forms of city regions...