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Planning Europe's Capital Cities
Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes. From Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of Paris, the townscapes which emerged still shape today's cities and are an inalienable part of European cultural heritage.
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Planning and Transformation
Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience.
In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa,...
Planning Major Infrastructure
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform...
English planning in crisis
10 steps to a sustainable future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The English planning system is in crisis, argue the authors of this provocative new book. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis provide a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, assessing the implications and significance for the future....
by Alpha Visions
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Considering Starting Your Own Business? Leave Nothing to Chance!Starting your own business can be a rewarding experience. You feel the highs of being your own boss as you create your own schedule and build your dreams day by day. However, not everybody is built to become an entrepreneur. To...
Making Plans
How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
“Community and regional planning involve thinking ahead and formally envisioning the future for ourselves and others,” according to Frederick R. Steiner. “Improved plans can lead to healthier, safer, and more beautiful places to live for us and other species. We can also plan for places that...
The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program
The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a broad regional planning program. The program focused...
Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies
Design and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Researchers are retiring conventional paper-and-pencil research methods and embracing an expanded array of online methodological options. In urban and planning studies, new digital tools, data accessibility, and online applications are changing how urban planning research is conducted. Online Research...
Foundations of the Planning Enterprise
Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.. The first volume...
The essential guide to planning law
Decision-making and practice in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This comprehensive yet concise textbook is the first to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. Giving students essential background and contextual information to planning’s statutory basis, the information is supported by practical and applied discussion to help...
The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning
From Puritan colonies to garden cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Focusing on the key period between the late 18th century and 1914, this book provides the first comprehensive narrative account of radical and socialist texts and organised movements for reform to land planning and housing policies in Britain. Beginning with the early colonial settlements in the puritan...
The Community Planning Event Manual
How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their...
Clear as Mud
Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time. Since 2005, Robert B. Olshansky and Laurie A. Johnson, urban planners who specialize in disaster planning and recovery, have been working to understand, in real...
E-Planning and Collaboration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. E-planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards urban environments. E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies,...