Regional Planning category: 486 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Transport is now a critical problem throughout the world, and it is set to get worse. Whether it is traffic congestion, crashes (10 million killed and injured each year), noise, air pollution, landscape destruction, or greenhouse gas emissions (of which transport is the fastest-growing source), the...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Over the 20th century, Morocco has become one of the world’s major emigration countries. But since 2000, growing immigration and settlement of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Europe confronts Morocco with an entirely new set of social, cultural, political and legal issues....
by Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Business travel has become indispensable to the global economy, not only due to its necessity in the maintaining of corporate networks, but also because of the associated economies that cater to the daily requirements of the business traveller. Underlying these developments are concerns over the environmental...
by Nanny Bressers
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Water is becoming one of the world's most crucial concerns. A third of the world's population has severe water shortage, while three quarters of the global population lives in deltas which run the risk of severe flooding. In addition, many more face problems of poor water quality. While it is apparent...
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth
A Manual for Participation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structure and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It is an important tool for urban planners, municipal officials, community development staff, non-governmental...
Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds
Learning to Live Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Iraq today faces a whole gamut of problems associated with post-war recovery and state-rebuilding compounded by age old mistrust and suspicion. The situation in Iraq resembles a huge experiment in which social scientists can observe the consequences of actions taken across an entire country. Can Western...
Soul of the Grid
A Cultural Biography of the California Independent System Operator
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
"I felt like we had failed," said director of grid operations Jim Detmers in a pained voice. "In my mind, I pictured people stranded in elevators. I pictured people stranded in stores and checkout lines. All I could think of was the Inconvenience, and I'm sitting here thinking thinking,...
Aging America and Transportation
Personal Choices and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
"Recommended."--CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
"Coughlin and DíAmbrosioís edited volume is a welcome contribution to highlighting this issue for gerontologists. The collection is an informative and useful reference for students, researchers, practitioners, planners,...
Site Fights
Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with...
by Mark Sullman
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Traffic psychology is a rapidly expanding and broad field within applied psychology with a considerable volume of research activities and a growing network of academic strands of enquiry. The discipline primarily focuses on the behaviour of road users and the psychological processes underlying these...
Toward Sustainable and Balanced Development
Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion North-South Economic Corridor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), one of the priority economic corridors under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program, was designated as a GMS flagship initiative in 2002. Efforts have been taken since then to develop NSEC but these were pursued mainly on a project-by-project...
De verovering van de Rockies
hoe haar geografie de rol van de Verenigde Staten in de wereld bepaalt
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 18, 2017
De verovering van de Rockies is een kort epos dat aan de hand van een intelligente en meeslepende beschrijving van het Amerikaanse landschap uiteenzet hoe het land een wereldmacht is geworden en hoe het zich in de chaotische wereld van nu zou moeten gedragen.
Als klein jongetje luisterde Robert...
by Stephen L. Elkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities are, can, and should be. Rejecting the idea that two goals of city politics—equality and efficiency—are opposed to one another, Elkin argues that...
Regionalismo e regioni in Italia
1861-2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Questo libro nasce nell’ambito delle celebrazioni per il 150° anniversario dell’Unità d’Italia, promosse dal Ministro per gli Affari regionali e per la coesione territoriale, Raffaele Fitto. Il volume si apre con la lectio magistralis tenuta, ancora su iniziativa del Dipartimento per gli Affari...