Regional Planning category: 486 books
by Verena Hachmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Transnational learning has become a buzz phrase in European policy-making and in multi-national business. Learning from the experiences of others is an idea that captivates practitioners and academics alike due to its simplicity and availability in a world that is increasingly characterised by cross-border...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Transport accounts for 23% of global carbon dioxide emissions and is one of the few industrial sectors where emissions are still growing. There is a pressing need for transport to begin reducing emissions to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The world is already committed to some degree of climate...
Inventive City-Regions
Path Dependence and Creative Knowledge Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Virtually every city-region in West and Central Europe has developed policies and strategies to attract, retain and encourage creative industries and knowledge-intensive services. Since most of these citiy-regions tend to see a creative knowledge economy as 'the best bet for the future', one of the...
Understanding Influence
The Use of Statebuilding Research in British Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The overarching objective of this book is to analyse the manner in which statebuilding-oriented research has and can influence policies in fragile, post-conflict environments. Large-scale, externally-assisted statebuilding is a relatively new and distinct foreign policy domain having risen to the...
Municipal Dreams
The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A narrative history of council housing—from slums to the Grenfell Tower
Urgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life.
In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history...
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and the lives that are altered in the process.
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the...
Solving Sprawl
Models Of Smart Growth In Communities Across America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Solving Sprawl shines a spotlight on American communities applying smart growth principles in successfully addressing the problem of sprawl. It offers examples that illustrate key concepts and tells the story of how this new approach to developmhas caught hold across America. It reports the good news...
Assessing Impact
Handbook of EIA and SEA Follow-up
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Written and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice of EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) follow-up. Without some form of follow-up, the consequences...
Sustainability Assessment
Criteria and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based...
Municipalities and Community Participation
A Sourcebook for Capacity Building
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
'Among all the literature on participation, this is the first book I know that focuses on municipal authorities. It... also has particular importance both for higher levels of government (at national or provincial/state level) and for international agencies. Firstly, it is a reminder of the importance...
Global Cities
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?
From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century,...
Sustainability Assessment
Applications and opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability. While there is no single, simple means of reversing the invidious biophysical trends and redirecting the distribution of benefits, one necessary step is to approach every new and renewed undertaking as an opportunity...
More Urban Less Poor
An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A world more urban... The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment. ...but less poor...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field. It then subjects this conventional wisdom to a critical reappraisal,...