Regional Planning category: 486 books
by Maf Smith, John Whitelegg, Nick J. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This work aims to provide a possible specification of the problems involved in greening the built environment and an articulation of the solutions. It begins with a discussion of sustainability as a concept and its applicability to contemporary towns and cities. The following chapters take up particular...
Cities for Children
Children's Rights, Poverty and Urban Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children. Cities for Children is intended to help them understand and respond to the rights and requirements of children and adolescents. It looks at the responsibilities that authorities...
Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres
Water and Sanitation in the Worlds Cities 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Half of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. Taking on the themes of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities (2003), this new volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies is an authoritative survey of contemporary transportation systems examined in terms of economic, social, and technical issues, as well as environmental challenges. Incorporating an extensive range of approaches - from modes, terminals, planning and policy to...
by William H. Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods along an expanded highway. These are the outposts of what was once a larger pattern of forests and farms, the "last landscape." According to...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Ha Noi Action Plan 2018–2022 addresses the unfinished and expanded agenda of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program for the remaining 5 years of the GMS Strategic Framework 2012–2022. The Ha Noi Action Plan provides directions and operational focus to the GMS program...
Making Waves
Integrating Coastal Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Coastal zones are critical multiple-use resources, under pressure from constant demands from different sources - conservation, economic growth and social welfare. This book identifies the dilemmas of managing conservation and development in coastal areas. It offers important information on the management,...
Infrastructures of Consumption
Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations...
Community Action against Racism in West Las Vegas
The F Street Wall and the Women Who Brought It Down
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street (F Street) in their community for...
by Nick Devas
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world's poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied relationship...
Uniting a Divided City
Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm...
by Rajib Shaw, Atta-ur-Rahman, Akhilesh Surjan
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing...
by Mark Deakin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Illustrated with empirical case studies from Europe, Africa and North America, this book provides an overview of the wide range of innovative methodologies, models and instruments currently being applied in the formation of and implementation of land management strategies. It examines techniques such...
Focusing Partnerships
A Sourcebook for Municipal Capacity Building in Public-private Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Despite the increasing occurrence of policies aimed at mobilising the financial and human resources of the private sector, most urban local governments responsible for urban basic services in the South do not have the capacity to initiate and sustain partnerships. Nor do they understand how they can...