Regional Planning category: 486 books
Regionalism in South Asia
Negotiating Cooperation, Institutional Structures
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
The dramatic surge in regional integration schemes over the past two decades has been one of the most important developments in world politics. Virtually all countries are now members of at least one regional grouping. South Asia is no exception to this trend. In December 1985, seven South Asian countries...
Tourism and Regional Development
New Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Tourist visits used to be a less common activity in the past. However, more people than ever now make leisure trips, making this an era of mass tourism. This drastic change in spatial behaviour is not only caused by economic prosperity, but the scale of this phenomenon means that it is able to generate...
Urban Renewal in India
Theory, Initiatives and Spatial Planning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Urban Renewal in India is a comprehensive presentation of the theoretical, strategic and technical aspects of urban renewal. The term ‘urban renewal’ implies redevelopment of urban areas to ensure growth of infrastructure, promotion of tourism and better quality of life. It has been identified...
by Peter Nijkamp, Adriaan Perrels
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Worldwide, urbanization is steadily increasing, yet many modern cities are becoming less and less able to accommodate the growth in their population. Congestion, pollution, low-quality housing, social fragmentation, noise, crime and inadequate social services all contribute to a declining quality...
The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory
Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or social crises - the raison d'être of spatial planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges. This Companion presents a multidimensional...
by Michael Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Vulnerability Analysis for Transportation Networks provides an integrated framework for understanding and addressing how transportation networks across all modes perform when parts of the network fail or are substantially degraded, such as extreme weather events, natural disasters, road crashes, congestion...
Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy
Seaports, Airports, Brainports
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand. To this end, the book brings together chapters analysing...
Planning for Coexistence?
Recognizing Indigenous rights through land-use planning in Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations. But what actually happens in the planning contact...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Program, with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other development partners, has scored impressive gains in promoting regional connectivity over the past 2 decades. Efforts have also been made to strengthen institutions and policies for trade and transport...
by Gert de Roo, Elisabete A. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change,...
Canadian-American Planning
The Seventh Annual Conference on Canadian-American Relations, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The Seventh Annual Seminar of Canadian-American relations held at the University of Windsor brought together a number of distinguished participants, representing such interested groups as labour, business, and research, to discuss planning. The result is this volume which brings together some of the...
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning
An International Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective...
by Professor Stephen Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning.
Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban planning history as the...
Research Design in Urban Planning
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
"This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects."
- Chris Couch, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool
"A perfect...