Regional Planning category: 486 books
Reclaiming Our Food
How the Grassroots Food Movement Is Changing the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Reclaiming Our Food tells the stories of people across the United States who are finding new ways to grow, process, and distribute food for their own communities. Discover how abandoned urban lots have been turned into productive organic farms, how a family-run sustainable fish farm can stay local...
by Peter Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
"The basic economic resource - 'the means of production', to use the economist's term - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor 'labour'. it is an will be knowledge."
With penetrating insight Peter Drucker describes the changes that are affecting politics, business and society itself.
It...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The economic corridor approach was adopted by the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries in 1998 to help accelerate subregional development. The development of economic corridors links production, trade, and infrastructure within a specific geographic area. The review of these corridors was conducted...
by Kwasi Kwarteng
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Why do we spend so much time stuck in traffic? After Peak Oil, do we face the prospect of Peak Travel? Does climate change mean no more foreign holidays? In Victorian times, Britain used to have the finest transport system in the world. Today, the future seems to belong to China with its ever growing...
by Shaw, Jon, Docherty
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
At a time when transport is high on the political agenda and government decision-making is being vigorously scrutinised, there is a need for an incisive and accessible analysis of the key policy issues. This book is a highly readable introduction to the transport debate from two experts in the field....
My Storm
Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment...
Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted...
The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance
The Jordanian Factor
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book demonstrates that the origins of the US-Israeli alliance lay in the former's concern over Egyptian influence in Jordan, contrasting with the widely-held view of the significance of the Six Day War.
The American-Israeli Alliance will be of great interest to students of Middle East studies, history, and politics.
Sharing the City
Community Participation in Urban Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
While the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, governments' capacity to support urban growth has, in many cases, failed to keep up with this trend. Non-governmental organisations working in the field have long advocated community management...
Rural Tourism Development
Localism and Cultural Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2009
Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The GIS Guide for Elected Officials is a valuable resource for government officials who want to better understand how to use geographic information systems (GIS) to answer location-based questions such as the following:
-Can work crews respond more efficiently to service calls?
-Where...
The Urban Housing Manual
Making Regulatory Frameworks Work for the Poor
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Red tape is a significant stumbling block to the provision of affordable shelter to the urban poor and, indeed, slums are largely the result of inappropriate regulatory frameworks. This practice-oriented manual tackles the issue of regulatory frameworks for urban upgrading and new housing development,...
by Riki Therivel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This practical guide, written by a practitioner for practitioners, presents a coherent and straightforward 'how-to-do-it' approach to the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process. Part one provides an overview of the aims, principles, advantages and problems of SEA as well as looking at key...
Municipalities and Finance
A Sourcebook for Capacity Building
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level. In many countries, decentralisation has brought the issue of municipal finance to the fore. This sourcebook provides a framework for analysing municipal...