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The purpose of planning
Creating sustainable towns and cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with...
Technology and Industrial Parks in Emerging Countries
Panacea or Pipedream?
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Industrial and technology parks are commonly regarded as a policy panacea. They tend to be considered as the ideal instrument to alleviate an assortment of institutional, political, economic, social and ultimately, technological weaknesses and often form the centrepiece of development strategies....
by Ivan L. Pitt, John Randolph Norsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Economics of the U.S. Commercial Airline Industry: Productivity, Technology and Deregulation illustrates the impact of upstream technological change in capital goods (aircraft and aircraft engines) on demand, productivity, and cost reduction in the U.S. airline industry for the years 1970-1992. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War’s devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city’s history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence.
In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and...
Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization
An Economic History of Real Wages and Market Integration
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Scholars have studied the nineteenth century's unprecedented labor flows in global and specific country contexts, but have lacked a comprehensive analysis of the world's old economic core, the Mediterranean. This work provides answers to important questions, such as: If the Mediterranean labor market...
by Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2011
Large-scale development is once again putting Toronto's waterfront at the leading edge of change. As in other cities around the world, policymakers, planners, and developers are envisioning the waterfront as a space of promise and a prime location for massive investments. Currently, the waterfront...
Towards Healthy Cities
Comparing Conditions for Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using...
The Ghost Cities of Australia
A survey of New City Proposals and Their Lessons for Australia’s 21st Century Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century population growth are borne...
Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling
An Introduction to Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
To comply with legal and other standards, businesses and regulators are increasingly required to make decisions based on risk assessments of the potential effects of their activities on the environment. Atmospheric dispersion modelling is a cost-effective method, allowing various scenarios to be explored...
Logistics and Transportation
Design and planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Logistics is a $700 billion industry in the USA and is the second largest employer of college graduates. Logistics costs account for nearly 30% of the sales dollar, and logistics activities are essential to satisfying the ever- changing customer demand in terms of variety and availability. Today the...
Navigating Community Development
Harnessing Comparative Advantages to Create Strategic Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book describes the evolution of the community development sector over the past 50 years, and it presents a framework and road map for how community development organizations can advance their mission through strategic partnerships that utilize their core competencies. The authors describe the...
by Paulo Pinho, Cecília Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Taking Stock of Air Liberalization is about Technology, Economy, and Policy (TEP) in the airline industry. Ten years ago, the practical collaboration was begun of bringing together people who belonged to the complementary streams of economic analysis and policy analysis presented int his book. During...
Beach Management
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book provides a wealth of case studies from the UK, USA, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and Latin America. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing...