Regional Planning category: 486 books
Countryside Planning
New Approaches to Management and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate. A watershed has now been reached, and in this time of unprecedented change, new tools are needed for planning and managing the countryside....
Infrastructure delivery planning
An effective practice approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This important text book is the first to be written about infrastructure planning in Britain. Written by an experienced author, the book reviews the rapid rise in the use of infrastructure delivery planning at national and neighbourhood level. The key components of infrastructure delivery are set...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The provision of infrastructure for urban developments is increasingly becoming a highly contentious and important issue in planning negotiations. By drawing together a range of case studies from North America, Australia and Europe, this book compares how a number of planning systems deal with this...
by Libby Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences. This work argues that the state-based activity of planning was integral to these projects in conceptualizing, shaping and managing place in settler...
Community action and planning
Contexts, drivers and outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise...
by Abdul Khakee, Angela Hull
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book provides recently developed and tested methods for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of planning and policy options. Several contributions focus on new substantive areas of concern in planning evaluation, including environmental justice and sustainable urban development. Applications...
Resilience and Opportunity
Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region's ability to bounce back after multiple...
Boomburbs
The Rise of America's Accidental Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "cities" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people...
Social Capital at the Community Level
An Applied Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built environmental...
by Bob Evans, Marko Joas, Susan Sundback
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban...
by Professor Janice Morphet
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
This text provides a systematic review of the reform of local government since the election of New Labour in 1997. Modern Local Government:
" provides the relevant historical context for the predicted 'death of local government' in the Thatcher era
" explains the New Labour...
by Michael Neuman
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence, along with the institution's structures and procedures, have persisted - with some...
Urban Informality
Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions...
Planning for Public Transport Accessibility
An International Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Bringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities spanning four continents, this book provides a "hands-on" introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools that have emerged since...