Regional Planning category: 486 books
Encyclopedia of Transportation
Social Science and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Viewing transportation through the lens of current social, economic, and policy aspects, this four-volume reference work explores the topic of transportation across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas, including geography, public policy, business, and economics.
The...
Travel Demand Management and Road User Pricing
Success, Failure and Feasibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Throughout the world, traffic levels are increasing and, in urban areas, these increasing levels have led to pressures on the road networks which are causing serious economic, environmental and social problems. This book examines the full range of 'push and pull' Travel Demand Management measures....
The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles
Development, Sprawl, and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen...
Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World
Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements,...
Urban Development and Civil Society
The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to...
Lansing at the Crossroads
A Partisan History of the Village of Lansing, New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
The construction of a new four-lane highway on the outskirts of Ithaca, NY created a rapidly growing commercial center in the previously rural Town of Lansing. The clash between the newcomers and the old-timers over the direction and pace of this change led to the formation of a new local government...
by Mohammad Qadeer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan’s likely future direction.
Pakistan examines how...
by Yoichi Kawamoto
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research program at the cSUR was designed...
Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition
Geographies, societies, policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Since the formal raising of the Iron Curtain, there has been much interest in post-socialism and the process of post-socialist transition. This timely book provides a systematic review and analysis of the process of ‘transition’. Herrschel:
explores recent theories, concepts and debates on...
Restructuring public transport through Bus Rapid Transit
An international and interdisciplinary perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation....
How Cities Will Save the World
Urban Innovation in the Face of Population Flows, Climate Change and Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current...
Growth Management and Public Land Acquisition
Balancing Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA. Both public land acquisition programs and state and local growth management efforts have been examined in detail,...
Dubai Amplified
The Engineering of a Port Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Following the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations. Infrastructure investment became a central part of the region's nation-building initiatives and fueled strong competition. Without...
Market Economy and Urban Change
Impacts in the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and structural adjustment, which now form...