Regional Planning category: 486 books
Mediated Modeling
A System Dynamics Approach To Environmental Consensus Building
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Mediated modeling is an innovative new approach that enhances the use of computer models as invaluable tools to guide policy and managemdecisions. Rather than having outside experts dispensing answers to local stakeholders, mediated modeling brings together diverse interests to raise the shared level...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously...
Neo-historical East Berlin
Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments. Drawing from recently released archival...
In Dwelling
Implacability, Exclusion and Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us. It can be implacable, in that it can work for or against us, depending on how we are able to access and use it. This means that we have to learn to accept dwelling as it is and find some accommodation with our surrounding...
City Futures
Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this...
by Riki Therivel, Elizabeth Wilson, Donna Heaney
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a new approach to environmental assessment, global in scope, which considers the environmental impacts of policies, plans and programmes. It is already in use in a number of countries and is rapidly being adopted by those involved with environmental management...
A Half-Century of Indian Higher Education
Essays by Philip G Altbach
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A Half-Century of Indian Higher Education features a select collection of writings on Indian higher education by Professor Philip G. Altbach. Professor Altbach's research papers and articles on Indian higher education—published in journals, periodicals, newspapers and books worldwide—not only...
Turkey and European Integration
Accession Prospects and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the important issue of Turkey's relationship with Europe. The authors uniquely present the Turkish view of integration within the broad context of the debates on Europeanisation and sovereignty, but with a specific focus on the internal debates and issues in Turkey itself. Key issues...
Social Justice in Contemporary Housing
Applying Rawls’ Difference Principle
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Philosophy is not usually seen as a guidance for modern housing policy, but in this new book, Dr Helen Taylor argues that there is something innovative, unusual, and worth discussing about the application of philosophy to housing. The philosophical framework used within this book is John Rawls’...
Growing Green
The Economic Benefits of Climate Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Pollution from fossil fuels and degraded natural lands are raising the earth’s temperature. The evidence of the causes of global warming is clear, as are its consequences. The economic impacts of climate change are already apparent and they threaten development gains. Extreme weather events have...
The Wrong Ally
Pakistans State Sovereignty Under US Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The Wrong Ally analyses Pakistan’s state sovereignty in the context of state dependence on the US, both during the Cold War era and the War on Terror. This examination becomes all the more important considering that recent contentious issues between Pakistan and the US, such as the US drone strikes,...
Informal Public Transport in Practice
Matatu Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Transport discourse often concentrates on what is missing from transport policy and practice in developing countries vis-Ã -vis high-income countries rather than articulating local creativity in responding to transport needs as revealed in informal public transport modes such as matatu, motorcycle,...
Augmented Urban Spaces
Articulating the Physical and Electronic City
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces. Considering ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile, wireless connectivity and the acceptance of the Internet as a non-extraordinary part of our everyday lives mean that physical urban space is augmented,...
The Implementation and Effectiveness of Transport Demand Management Measures
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Congestion and traffic-related pollution are increasingly becoming major issues in towns and cities world-wide. This book deals with carefully selected market and non-market based measures to reduce congestion, and their implementation and effectiveness in tackling the problem. The book features a...