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Routledge Revivals: Planning Games (1985)
Case Study Simulations in Land Management and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
First published in 1985, this book presents seven games for use in the teaching and study of planning, urban studies or land administration. These simulations are all built on researched case studies and deal with a number of critical planning and developmental issues; for each one the book provides...
Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
Colonial and Post-Colonial Planning Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This complex and uneven African urban condition requires an open discussion of past and current urban planning...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new 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...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.
The...
Marketing the City
The role of flagship developments in urban regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2005
This book assesses the value of flagship developments and draws out lessons for best policy and practice. It looks at marketing strategies and the sales process for flagship developments and the areas in which they are located for urban regeneration. It discusses the management of marketing strategies...
Sustainable Solar Housing
Volume 1 - Strategies and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat...
Citistate Seattle
Shaping A Modern Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle. The author takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems — cozy cottages, trendy pubs, gracious apartment buildings, and vibrant urban villages — that flavor and enliven...
Transport Models in Urban Planning Practices
Tensions and Opportunities in a Changing Planning Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in decades of development work and are geared to offer value-free, academic and explicit knowledge to transport planning experts. However, planning practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2008
Bringing together authors from academia and practice, this bookexamines spatial planning at different places throughout the British Isles. Six illustrative case studies of practice examine which conceptions of space and place have been articulated, presented and visualized through the production of...
Market Towns
Roles, challenges and prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating policy initiatives and progress in market towns.Through a detailed analysis of the characteristics of over 200 towns and in-depth studies of eleven towns in different parts of E
Backyard Woodland: How to Maintain and Sustain Your Trees, Water, and Wildlife (Countryman Know How)
Backyard Woodland: How to Maintain and Sustain Your Trees, Water, and Wildlife (Countryman Know How)
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The complete guide to maintaining your own personal woods.
Who owns our forests? We do. And it’s up to us to care for them.
More than 10 million ordinary citizens own over half of the forestland in America. The vast majority of landowners want to do right by their land, but until...
Measuring Quality in Planning
Managing the Performance Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning: how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, public sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process. Although case study material is...
Sustainable Solar Housing
Volume 2 - Exemplary Buildings and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat...