Landscape category: 1155 books
Beyond Home Ownership
Housing, Welfare and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
In context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices. It considers owner-occupied housing in terms of diverse meanings and manifestations, but in particular...
Writing the Modern City
Literature, Architecture, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Sustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to ignore. Planning for a Sustainable Future provides a multi-disciplinary overview of sustainability issues in the land use context, focusing on principles and their application,...
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 4
Changing Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional.
Showing how sustainability...
Sustainable Infrastructure
The Guide to Green Engineering and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
As more factors, perspectives, and metrics are incorporated into the planning and building process, the roles of engineers and designers are increasingly being fused together. Sustainable Infrastructure explores this trend with in-depth look at sustainable engineering practices in an urban design...
English Regional Planning 2000-2010
Lessons for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning during these years, whereby large steps forward were made, but where policy...
by John Fraser Hart, Michelle J. Rhodes, John T. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In American popular imagination, the mobile home evokes images of cramped interiors, cheap materials, and occupants too poor or unsavory to live anywhere else. Since the 1940s and '50s, however, mobile home manufacturers have improved standards of construction and now present them as an affordable...
Redesigning Cities
Principles, Practice, Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. Too often, no one is happy with new development: Public officials must choose among unappealing alternatives, developers are frustrated and the public is angry. But growing political support for urban design, developers'...
The Factory in a Garden
A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a...
Quantifying Neighbourhood Effects
Frontiers and perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Many policies in several Western European countries and the U.S. aim to counter spatial concentrations of deprivation and create more socio-economically mixed residential areas. Such policies are founded on the belief that neighbourhoods have a strong and independent effect upon the well-being and...
Career Worth Planning
Starting Out and Moving Ahead in the Planning Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Now that your planning degree is in sight or in hand, how and where can you find your "dream job?" Once you're on the job, what can you do to not just survive, but thrive and avoid common professional pitfalls? In A Career Worth Planning, two veteran planners offer a road map for success....
Planning for Retail Development
A Critical View of the British Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2006
Written by a leading expert in the field, this is the first thorough critical review of retail planning policy in Britain (including Scotland and Wales). It covers recent changes in government policy and guidance, and examines retail policy within a broader economic and social context.
Planning...
Landscaping Ideas
Innovative Ways To Turn Your Outdoor Space Into a Peaceful Retreat By Learning Professional Secrets To Backyard Landscaping, Landscaping, Landscaping For Privacy, Landscaping Business and Landscaping For Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Get Great Ideas For landscaping ideas, backyard landscaping, landscaping, landscaping for privacy, landscaping business, landscaping for your home and much more.
An Anatomy of Sprawl
Planning and Politics in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation...