Planning category: 24680 books
by Hok-Lin Leung
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions. It seeks to develop a set of coherent planning principles by drawing out useful and generally applicable...
by Muhammad Rayan, Edward Gyan, Ivaldi Lukman
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: Good, University of Stuttgart (Master of Infrastructure Planning), course: Case study, language: English, abstract: The County of Ludwigsburg, with the City of Ludwigsburg as its capital, is located at the core of...
Planning Sustainable Cities
Global Report on Human Settlements 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality....
Fundamentals of Plan Making
Methods and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Urban and regional planning programs aspire to prepare practitioners to write and implement plans, primarily at the local level of government. These programs are very much "professional" in their aspirations, as opposed to research oriented. Yet, academic planning programs often place greater emphasis...
by Li Yu
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
While the Chinese planning system is vitally important to the rapid development which has been taking place over the past three decades, this is the first text to provide a comprehensive examination and critical evaluation of this system. It sets the current system in historical context and explains...
Spatial Planning and Urban Development
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The...
Planning Singapore
The Experimental City
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become ‘a great commercial emporium and fulcrum’. But by the time independence was achieved in 1965, the city faced daunting problems of housing shortage, slums and high unemployment....
by Brian Zeek, Dee Dee Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There’s More to Financial Planning than Financial Planning doesn’t simply cover the obvious topics in personal finance. Brian Zeek and Dee Dee Brooks present a comprehensive picture of financial planning that includes everything from car insurance to the ins and outs of a home mortgage to health...
The collaborating planner?
Practitioners in the neoliberal age
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a greater pace of reform to planning in Britain than at any other time. As a public sector activity, planning has also been impacted heavily by the wider changes in the way we are governed. Yet whilst such reform has been extensively commented upon...
Planning and LGBTQ Communities
The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these...
by Lawrence J. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
New Edition - November 2013
Millions of people want to improve their personal finance and investing practices. Many are confused and frustrated, because they do not have the knowledge and tools that they need to plan their financial futures efficiently and optimally. Addressing these problems, this...
Urban and Regional Technology Planning
Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Part of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society.
Designed to offer scholars,...
Be An Outstanding Events Planner
Tips To Gain Knowledge, Training, Experience And The Ability To Plan And Manage Successful Events So You Can Quickly Excel And Be Prominent In The Events Planning Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Each one of us may have had some hand at planning an event at some point in our life. It may have been a simple dinner get-together for 5 people or an elaborate birthday party for 30 people, we've all experienced how overwhelming all of the planning and managing was. Event planning is very hard work....
Urban Development
The Logic Of Making Plans
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
With increased awareness of the role of plans in shaping urban and suburban landscapes has come increased criticism of planners and the planning profession. Developers, politicians, and citizens alike blame "poor planning" for a hof community ills. But what are plans really supposed to do? How do...