Regional and area planning

Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making.

The book develops a new approach to urban development in which leisure, pleasure or experiences are seen as key drivers.

Originally published in 1981, this book explores the plight of the locally born or locally employed faced with spiralling house prices and strong and unequal competition from the wealthier commuter, second-home owner or retirement migrant.

This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.

Originally published in 1977.

Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed.

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention.

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity.

This book meets the needs of teachers and students of agriculture and rural development project and programme planning, planners employed by governments in developing countries and by external financing agencies.

Öffentliche Verwaltungen und öffentliche Betriebe werden von ihren Trägern eingesetzt, um öffentliche Aufgaben zu erfüllen.

The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US.

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain.

Originally published in 1952.

Road passenger transport management is an important role, involving the planning and coordinating of passenger transport operations, including routes and schedules.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

Originally published in 1986 at a time when Britain was facing a major housing crisis, this book, containing much original research, examines the crisis and analyses the reasons for it, providing foundations for the construction of effective new policies.

Design has been employed as an agent of social and political change, and a catalyst for spatial and urban transformations in cities across the world.

This title was first published in 2000.

Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world's population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form.

Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment initiatives worth 1b /$ or more and, facing similar problems independent of the country where they are implemented and the industry they belong to.

Examining the rising interest in quality-of-life offences, anti-social behaviour and incivilities in urban public spaces, this study explores the rising importance of policing, crime control and community safety policies in the context of the ongoing urban restructuring in old-industrial cities.

This book offers a historical analysis of landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies to emphasize the international and global scale of issues concerning waste disposal and park redevelopments.

This title was first published in 2000: Improved communication links between urban and rural areas and an increase in property prices in urban regions have made commuting an attractive option for European town and city dwellers eager to 'escape' urban living.

Provides clear and useable protocols for the detection and measurement of human impacts on the environment.

Originally published in 1987.

Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern.

In this handbook, 60 authors, senior and junior educators, and researchers from six continents provide an overview of 200 years of landscape architectural education.

In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums.

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole.

,A rare achievement, one of the first books to link technological and behavioural change to the sustainability agenda, Charles Landry, author of The Creative City ,Any course interested in sustainable development in practice would benefit from the case studies here, Dr Adrian Smith, SPRU Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK Two disjointed voices can be identified in the prevailing sustainability discourse: one technology-focused, the other favouring behavioural solutions.

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities.

Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed.

Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their product.

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

The Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development, recognizing that all revenues and expenditures are spatially related.

This title was first published in 2001.

Tracing the associations between artists, planners and engineers with and within the materials of our environment, this book introduces the relational theory of 'art worlding' as a way of coming to know our organic continuity.

Makes the startling connection between suburban sprawl and the violent breakdown of American society.

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Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.

This book addresses some of the countless challenges faced by developing countries when adopting sustainable design and construction and offers suggestions for the way forward for African development projects.

This book explores novel theories, strategies and methods for re-naturing cities.

Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "e;doing democracy"e; in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of Amsterdam and its region.