Regional Planning category: 486 books
Fair Shared Cities
The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam...
Town and Country Planning in England and Wales
(Third Edition, Revised)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
The British Town and Country Planning machine is the most sophisticated in the world, yet its inadequacies are only too apparent to those who are familiar with its evolution and operation. During the last decade it has been in a constant state of change in an attempt to come to terms with the needs...
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
Rationalities of Planning
Development Versus Environment in Planning for Housing
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable conflicts around development and environmental protection? Providing a thorough assessment of these important questions, this stimulating book reviews planning policy in the UK...
by Janice Morphet
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
After years of being regarded as a regulatory tool, spatial planning is now a key agent in delivering better places for the future. Dealing with the role of spatial planning in major change such as urban extensions or redevelopment, this book asks how it can deliver at the local level.
Setting...
Evaluation in Planning
Evolution and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Evaluation is a critical stage in urban and regional planning and development, with the consideration of alternative proposals essential for informed debate and decision. Evaluation in planning has become even more important with the new paradigm attempting to integrate economic efficiency with equity,...
Planning World Cities
Globalization and Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning...
Ecosystem Planning in Florida
Solving Regional Problems through Local Decision-making
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
While ecosystem management requires looking beyond specific jurisdiction and focusing on broad spatial scales, most planning decisions particularly in the USA, are made at local level. By looking at land-use planning in Florida, this volume recognizes the need for planners and resource managers to...
Growth Management in the US
Between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues facing many US cities, leading to the creation and adoption of a variety of approaches to control growth. However, many growth management ideas do not align well with the growth-promoting planning traditions of the US, which historically have been dominated...
SinoJapanese Relations
Rivals or Partners in Regional Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Sino-Japanese relations have been on the mend since Shinzo Abe assumed the Japanese Prime Minister's office in September 2006. His visit to China in October 2006 and the reciprocal visits of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in April 2007, and President Hu Jintao in May 2008, facilitated the further...
Regional Developmentalism through Law
Establishing an African Economic Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Offering a study of regionalism in Africa and investigating the ways in which law can be used to address the issues raised by regional processes on the continent, this book examines the African Economic Community, considering that it has been entrusted to coordinate and to harmonize policies between...
by Walter Isard, Iwan J. Azis, Matthew P. Drennan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This landmark textbook introduces students to the principles of regional science and focuses on the key methods used in regional analysis, including regional and interregional input-output analysis, econometrics (regional and spatial), programming and industrial and urban complex analysis, gravity...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Assisted by globalization and the rapid application of advanced technologies, the transformative power of urbanization is being felt around the world. The scale and the speed of existing and projected urbanization poses several challenges to researchers in multiple disciplines, such as computer science,...
by Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such...