Urban and municipal planning and policy

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies.

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban issues and to drive local and regional economies.

This book serves as a helpful guide for anyone interested in understanding and implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) in developing countries.

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840.

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840.

With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation's economy by midcentury.

One of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published.

This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique.

What does the future look like?

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change?

Delta Urbanism is a major new initiative that explores the growth, development, and management of deltaic cities and regions, with the aim of balancing various goals in a sustainable manner: urbanization, port commerce, industrial development, flood defense, public safety, ecological balance, tourism, and recreation.

Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time.

That America entered a profound housing crisis in 2008 is well known.

The health of our planet and ourselves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings.

Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment-representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living-as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl.

"e;For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of those!

APA's popular primer for citizens is all new!

A comprehensive how-to manual for traffic calming in the United States.

This is the only impact fee book you'll need for the next decade or longer!

This book is the latest book from the author, documents the United States' hidden crisis and shows how balanced transportation and natural resources preservation can make new urban development sustainable, as well as more efficient and more equitable.

This book explains how to use and adapt these techniques and how to integrate these methods with more traditional qualitative research.

Does transportation affect the lives of minority, low-income, elderly, and physically disabled citizens?

Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of the bunker, throw open the gates, and meet the neighborhood.

Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities.

This new edition of "e;the best anthology in planning"e; includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers.

The United States faces enormous changes in the next 25 years.

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam.

"e;This book is on the suggested reading list for planners preparing to take the AICP exam.

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam.

Now that your planning degree is in sight or in hand, how and where can you find your "e;dream job?

Planning the Built Environment takes a systematic, technical approach to describing how urban infrastructures work.

With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle.

Invest in the future!

While many authors have written about what urban plans should contain and how they should be used, this comprehensive book leads you step by step through the entire plan preparation process.

This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity.

Environmental protection is a global issue.

The Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to successful charrettes -- those extended exercises that help citizens envision new possibilities for their communities.

More than any other major U.

In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning.

Development projects are the building blocks of urban growth.

Bikers and hikers.

Across the country, communities rely on their planning commissions for guidance.

Los Angeles isn't planned; it just happens.

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided flood control, water purification, habitats, and recreational opportunities.

Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together.

First published in 1990.

The author's classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages.

With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation's economy by midcentury.

One of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published.

This volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique.