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Regional Planning eBooks

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  • Industry 4.0 and Regional Transformations

    Edited by Lisa De Propris, David Bailey ...
    This edited volume brings together a group of expert contributors to explorebthe opportunities and the challenges that Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing) is likely to pose for regions, fi rms and jobs in Europe. Drawing on theory and empirical cases, it considers emerging issues like servitization, new innovation models for local production systems and the increase in reshoring.Industry 4.0 and ... Read more

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  • Crafting Form-Based Codes

    Resilient Design, Policy, and Regulation

    by Korkut Onaran ...
    This book is for the well-meaning idealists – city planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers – who are frustrated working within the messy political environments of local democracies. It provides practical tools for crafting form-based rules that can facilitate effective communication and consensus building that are essential in today’s many regulatory cultures. It reviews some of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Beyond Rust

    Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America

    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native Allen Dieterich-Ward provides a new model for a truly metropolitan history that integrates the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Turning up the heat

    Urban political ecology for a climate emergency

    Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the ‘city’ as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Modern Theatres 1950–2020

    Edited by David Staples ...
    Modern Theatres 1950–2020 is an investigation of theatres, concert halls and opera houses in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America.The book explores in detail 30 of the most significant theatres, concert halls, opera houses and dance spaces that opened between 1950 and 2010. Each theatre is reviewed and assessed by experts in theatre buildings, such as architects, acousticians, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Community Wayfinding: Pathways to Understanding

    This book examines wayfinding from a broad public health perspective and articulates what needs to be done to create better wayfinding for all people regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation. Addressing both science and the human experience, the book brings together a group of international experts to examine community wayfinding from a variety of viewpoints.It first presents a ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • My Storm

    Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Shaping the African Savannah

    From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia

    Series Book 149 - African Studies
    The southern African savannah landscape has been framed as an 'Arid Eden' in recent literature, as one of Africa's most sought after exotic tourism destinations by twenty-first century travellers, as a 'last frontier' by early twentieth-century travellers and as an ancient ancestral land by Namibia's Herero communities. In this 150-year history of the region, Michael Bollig looks at how this 'Arid ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way

    Imagining a More Just Street

    This book explores the geography of the everyday roadway and contemplates how regulation and design shape our streets. People may question the hegemony of cars, but reimagining public streets is a major conceptual and technical challenge. Drawing from “new mobilities” and transport studies, Prytherch addresses how streets are structured by policy standards; what it means to have a right to the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Rural Governance in the UK

    Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society

    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of rural society in a post-Brexit UK by examining the emergence of new environmental and rural policies and the implications of this transition for rural communities.Through the Common Agricultural Policy, Common Fisheries Policy, the Birds and Habitats Directives, the Water Framework Directive and a myriad of other legislations and institutions, the ... Read more

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  • Fixing Your City

    Creating Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapting to a Changing World

    Tired of watching your city being degraded by new development that doesn’t fit? Paying for city plans that never get implemented? Wondering what your city can do to respond to climate change?In his groundbreaking book, Fixing Your City, Portland urban architect George Crandall reveals how to produce city plans that mitigate climate change and create healthy places to live, work, and play.This is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Supplementary Dictionary of Renewable Energy and Sustainability

    by Helen Roby ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Supplementary Dictionary of Renewable Energy and Sustainability consists of 600 A to Z entries relating to these subjects, including the terms associated with fossil- and nuclear-fuelled energy systems; renewable energy sources such as solar thermal, bioenergy, tidal power and wind power; and energy costings. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Siembra y cosecha de conocimiento

    Susuyama: 15 años de construcción de la vida querida con campesinos e indígenas en Nariño

    Series series Conocimientos y prácticas populares
    Suyusama surgió como una iniciativa común de los centros sociales de la Compañía de Jesús en Colombia, con la colaboración de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, en el año 2004. Suyusama acompaña a las comunidades en los procesos de creación de conocimiento en el territorio, a partir del trabajo participativo en la formulación de planes de vida. Estos definen una visión concertada del territorio ... Read more

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  • Transport Corridors in Africa

    In-depth examination of the inherent tensions and dynamics of transport corridors in Africa: between short-term optics and long-term durability; between regional integration and national interest; between the facilitation of trade and the generation of corridor revenue. The image of the corridor, a central pathway of road and rail carving its way through Africa's interior, has guided the ... Read more

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  • Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation

    This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history, politics and social geography of the high profile London Borough of Haringey, in the decades prior to the 2011 Tottenham riots. The Haringey case study acts as a lens through ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Planning for a Sustainable Environment

    Edited by Andrew Blowers ...
    This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment. The book focuses on urban development, as population and resources and often the most severe environmental problems are concentrated in cities. It looks at the nature of environmental planning and at the main areas where changes have to be made: in energy policy, waste ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory

    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doing so, Beauregard explores how a basic concern with the relationship between knowledge and action has evolved into a complex discussion of democracy, inclusion, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Thinking on Housing

    Words, Memories, Use

    by Peter King ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy
    If we do stop to think on housing, what do we see? What is housing and what does it do? These seem deceptively simple questions, but they are often left unanswered. The reason for this is that a lot of discourse on housing is really a concern for policy-making and the critical evaluation of existing policies. Discourse, is not, properly speaking, on housing at all. It is concerned with provision, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Renaturierung von Ökosystemen im Spannungsfeld von Mensch und Umwelt

    Ein interdisziplinäres Fachbuch

    by Stefan Zerbe ...
    In diesem disziplinübergreifenden Fachbuch, welches die Brücke zwischen den Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften schlägt, werden sowohl die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Renaturierungsökologie wie auch praktische Aspekte der Ökosystemrenaturierung umfassend dargestellt. Hierbei werden die Vielfalt der Landnutzungstypen mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Mitteleuropa herausgestellt und Fallbeispiele von ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Politiche

    con un modello di sviluppo nuovo

    Ambiente, Società, Economia, Politiche sono i capitoli attraverso cui si sviluppa un affresco ampio e articolato dei problemi che riguardano il nostro tempo, nel mondo e più nello specifico in Italia; inoltre, le alternative illustrate sono davvero emblematiche di una visione sistematica rivoluzionaria, che declina il nuovo modello di sviluppo. ... Read more

    $11.10 USD

  • Developing Sustainable Agriculture and Community

    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives. It provides lessons learned, first, from the community development literature that can help shape sustainable agriculture strategies, and second, from the sustainable agriculture literature ... Read more

    $210.99 USD

  • The Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment

    The practical application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is becoming increasingly common. A growing number of SEAs are being undertaken around the world, and several countries have issued guidance on how these should be carried out. However, few countries as yet have formal SEA regulations, and few completed SEAs have demonstrated all the elements of current best practice. The ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Energiestädte

    Mit der Loslösung der Städte und Regionen von fossil-nuklearen Energiequellen gewinnt der energetisch-ökologische Stadtumbau zunehmend an Bedeutung. Eine wachsende Zahl von Akteuren engagiert sich für die Umstellung der Energieversorgung auf erneuerbare Energien sowie für ressourcenschonende ökologische Kreisläufe in ihrem Lebensumfeld. Der energetisch-ökologische Stadtumbau verbessert die Lebens- ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Rural Tourism Development

    Localism and Cultural Change

    Series Book 17 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Rural tourism represents a merging of perhaps two of the most influential yet contradictory features of modern life. Not only are the forces of economic, social, cultural, environmental and political change working to redefine rural spaces the world over, but broad global transformations in consumption and transportation patterns are reshaping leisure behaviour and travel. For those concerned with ... Read more

    $31.99 USD