Planning category: 24680 books
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...
Planning for Sustainability
Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.
Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning...
Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa
Colonial and Post-Colonial Planning Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This complex and uneven African urban condition requires an open discussion of past and current urban planning...
Australian Environmental Planning
Challenges and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Winner of the Planning Institute of Australia's 2015 Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award!
Australians from all walks of life have begun to realise the nation’s cities cannot sustain profligate growth indefinitely. Dwindling water supplies, failing food bowls, increased energy costs,...
by B W Namano
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language: English, abstract: The purpose of the study was to establish how...
by William M. Rohe, Lauren B. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighborhoods through local organizations. They also assist residents in reviewing projects developed by city agencies. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighborhood planning programs and in-depth case...
Community Planning
An Introduction to the Comprehensive Plan, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names—especially master plan or general plan—the type of plan described here is the predominant form of general governmental planning in the U.S. Although many...
Succession Planning That Works
The Critical Path of Leadership Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Many attempts to establish a succession plan fail. Why? They run up against insurmountable implementation challenges, or weak executive commitment and follow-through. Succession Planning That Works: The Critical Path of Leadership Development is a step-by-step guide to help HR professionals and senior...
by Gert de Roo, Elisabete A. Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change,...
The Planning Polity
Planning, Government and the Policy Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town...
Site Planning
International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Ebook Volume 3 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.
Ebook Volume 3 of 3.
Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the...
Canadian-American Planning
The Seventh Annual Conference on Canadian-American Relations, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The Seventh Annual Seminar of Canadian-American relations held at the University of Windsor brought together a number of distinguished participants, representing such interested groups as labour, business, and research, to discuss planning. The result is this volume which brings together some of the...
Site Planning
International Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Ebook Volume 1 of 3. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries.
Ebook Volume 1 of 3.
Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the...
Nordic Experiences of Sustainable Planning
Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
For well over a decade, there has been a drive towards sustainability in planning throughout the Nordic countries. But are these countries experiencing a paradigm shift in planning research and practice with regards to sustainability? Or is the sustainability discourse leading them into an impasse...