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Charleston
City of Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Long famous for its charming courtyard gardens in the peninsula’s historic district, Charleston, South Carolina, has a remarkable southern landscape that also includes dozens of exquisite private gardens, city parks, cemeteries, institutional gardens, and even an urban farm. In Charleston: City...
Enabling participatory planning
Planning aid and advocacy in neoliberal times
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support...
Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013)
Measurement of Carrying Capacity and Countermeasures
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book mainly focuses on the status, trends and countermeasures of carrying capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region. It presents the results a comprehensive survey and systematic research on the carrying capacity of this region and its mega-cities, conducted in the hope of providing...
Policy Innovations for Affordable Housing In Singapore
From Colony to Global City
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Global cities today are facing fundamental challenges in relation to unaffordable housing and growing economic inequality. Singapore’s success in making homeownership possible for 90% of its population has attracted much attention internationally. This book represents a culmination of research by...
Rural Housing, Exurbanization, and Amenity-Driven Development
Contrasting the 'Haves' and the 'Have Nots'
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Rural America is progressing through a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition. For many, traditional means of household sustenance gained through agriculture, mining and rustic tourism are giving way to large scale corporate agriculture, footloose and globally competitive manufacturing...
The Competitiveness of West African Economies in the Chinese Market
West African Economies in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Xiamen University, language: English, abstract: West Africa is one of the regions on the African continent with abundant natural resources ranging from vast forest and arable land to mineral deposits. According...
by Andreas Faludi
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This book examines the most recent of these, the concept of territorial cohesion.
Territorial cohesion is the pursuit of balanced development, competitiveness,...
Travel Demand Management and Road User Pricing
Success, Failure and Feasibility
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Throughout the world, traffic levels are increasing and, in urban areas, these increasing levels have led to pressures on the road networks which are causing serious economic, environmental and social problems. This book examines the full range of 'push and pull' Travel Demand Management measures....
Innovation in Public Transport Finance
Property Value Capture
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed. Value capture (VC) is one such mechanism, which involves the identification and capture of a public infrastructure-led increase in property...
Sudan at the Crossroads - Between Consolidation and a Failing State
Between Consolidation and a Failing State
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,0, Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), course: Staatszerfall und Konfliktökonomien in Afrika, language:...
The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles
Development, Sprawl, and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen...
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....
Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility
New Solutions and Approaches for Sustainable Transport Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Delivering a sustainable transport system is not just a matter of adopting a number of technological innovations to improve performance in terms of people, planet, and profits. A broader structural and societal transition is needed in technology, as well as in institutions, behavioural patterns, and...
Urban Transport Environment and Equity
The Case for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach....