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Community Development and Disaster Risk Management |
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Rose Wright/ 9781984695314/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Focuses on the integration of disaster risk reduction into community development practices.
Highlights strategies for building resilient communities that can better withstand natural and man-made disasters.
Emphasizes preparedness, risk assessment, and recovery planning as critical aspects of community resilience. |
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Community Development Planning |
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Mia Carter/ 9781984695413/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Covers the essential elements of planning and executing community development projects.
Emphasizes participatory planning, encouraging communities to take active roles in shaping their futures.
Provides tools and frameworks for assessing community needs, setting goals, and evaluating outcomes. |
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Community Governance and Mobilization Strategies |
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Hazel Wood/ 9781984694812/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Explores methods for mobilizing community members to participate in governance and decision-making processes.
Examines the role of leadership, communication, and community organizing in achieving collective goals.
Provides practical strategies for creating inclusive and accountable community governance structures. |
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Community Leadership and Organizational Development |
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Ruby Watson/ 9781984695819/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Discusses the skills and strategies needed to lead and develop organizations within communities.
Covers leadership theory, team building, and organizational change to strengthen community institutions.
Highlights the importance of collaboration and adaptive leadership in addressing community needs. |
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Educational Strategies for Community Development |
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Sebastian Long/ 9781984694805/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Focuses on the role of education in empowering communities and fostering sustainable development.
Discusses various educational approaches, including adult education and vocational training, tailored to community needs.
Promotes skill development and lifelong learning as tools for community improvement. |
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Introduction to Community Development |
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Wyatt Price/ 9781984694720/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Introduces foundational concepts in community development, emphasizing social change and empowerment.
Discusses strategies for addressing issues like poverty, education, and economic development in communities.
Encourages participatory approaches where communities actively shape their own futures. |
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Planning and Administration in Community Development |
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Cooper Adams/ 9781984695222/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Explores strategies for effective planning and administration in community development projects.
Discusses resource allocation, project management, and policy implementation for sustainable development.
Emphasizes collaborative approaches to address community challenges and enhance social welfare. |
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Re-Building Displaced Communities |
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Julia Henderson/ 9781984695437/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Examines the challenges and strategies for rebuilding communities affected by displacement due to disasters or conflicts.
Emphasizes housing, infrastructure, and social services as crucial components of resettlement.
Advocates for inclusive planning that respects the culture and needs of displaced populations. |
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Sustainable Urban Planning |
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Ruby Price/ 9781984694973/ Price:US$ 110.00
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Examines strategies for creating cities that prioritize environmental sustainability, resource efficiency, and long-term livability.
Discusses the integration of green spaces, public transportation, and renewable energy into urban planning to reduce carbon footprints.
Highlights the role of urban planners in addressing challenges such as climate change, population growth, and urban sprawl. |
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Implementing Sustainable Cities |
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Sylvie Albert/ 9781032587684/ Price:GBP 39.99
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The Humanities in City Planning: Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality |
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Martin H. Krieger/ 9781032755212/ Price:GBP 36.99
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Urban Renewal in Central Seoul: Planning Paradigm Shifts |
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Hyung Min Kim/ 9781032333540/ Price:GBP 145.00
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Regreening the Built Environment: Nature, Green Space, and Sustainability |
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Michael A. Richards/ 9781032668598/ Price:GBP 39.99
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Contemporary Urban Planning |
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John M. Levy/ 9781032270531/ Price:GBP 76.99
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Town and Country Planning in the UK |
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Barry Cullingworth/ 9781032274584/ Price:GBP 71.99
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The Gated City: Planning Practice and the Challenges of Urban Fragmentation in Mexico |
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Emma R. Morales Garcia de Alba/ 9781447375371/ Price:GBP 80.00
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The book tells the story of the proliferation of gated communities and the privatisation of public life and public space in Mexico over the last three decades. Drawing on research from Lomas de Angelopolis in Puebla, one of the largest gated communities in the world, Emma R. Morales explores why such fortified spaces have proved popular with middle class households.
Weaving together the multiple influences of housing policy, predatory financial markets and an increased fear of crime, the book sets out how policy makers and planners can improve decision-making and provide non-gated solutions to urban anxiety. |
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Planning without Growth |
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Yvonne Rydin/ 9781447369776/ Price:GBP 21.99
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Many planning systems are currently locked into growth-dependence, encouraging market-led development which can widen social inequalities and produce adverse environmental outcomes.
This accessible book introduces students to the debates around growth and planning and sets out the solutions to promote genuinely sustainable communities. It includes:
¡Ea positive proposal for reform of the planning system;
¡Efocussed discussions from the UK and Europe providing lessons for future planning;
¡Eanalysis of the challenges of implementing reform.
Covering chapters on cooperatives, community land trusts, local economic development and community assets and infrastructure, as well as commoning, it provides a roadmap for planning system reform with social justice and sustainability at its heart. |
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Planning in a Failing State: Reforming Spatial Governance in England
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Olivier Sykes/ 9781447365051/ Price:GBP 26.99
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This topical, edited collection analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of change since the Conservative-led coalition government came to power. With a critique of ongoing planning reforms by the UK government, the book argues that the planning system is often blamed for a range of issues caused by ineffective policy making by government.
Including chapters on housing, localism, design, zoning and the consequences of Brexit for environmental planning, the contributors unpick a complicated set of recent reforms and counter the claims of the think-tank-led assault on democratic planning. |
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Private Renting in the Advanced Economies: Growth and Change in a Financialised World
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Peter A. Kemp/ 9781447362098/ Price:GBP 28.99
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Advancing Health Rights Through Community Development and Participatory Praxis |
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Neil Quinn/ 9781447361404/ Price:GBP 26.99
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In our post-pandemic world, the international community and national governments are searching for new solutions to build healthy and resilient societies.
This timely book focuses on community participation in building healthier populations, placing people at the heart of such planning and solutions in both the Global North and South. Drawing on international research and practical examples, it addresses the role and potential of community development in addressing inequalities and restoring the right to health. |
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Advancing Health Rights Through Community Development and Participatory Praxis |
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Neil Quinn/ 9781447361398/ Price:GBP 79.99
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In our post-pandemic world, the international community and national governments are searching for new solutions to build healthy and resilient societies.
This timely book focuses on community participation in building healthier populations, placing people at the heart of such planning and solutions in both the Global North and South. Drawing on international research and practical examples, it addresses the role and potential of community development in addressing inequalities and restoring the right to health. |
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Innovation District Planning: Concept, Framework, Practice |
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Tan Yigitcanlar/ 9781032657011/ Price:GBP 47.99
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Housing in the United States: The Basics |
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Katrin B. Anacker/ 9781032655710/ Price:GBP 21.99
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Megaregional China |
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Richard Hu/ 9780367621995/ Price:GBP 49.99
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Providing Public Space in a Contemporary Metropolis: Dilemmas and Lessons from London and Hong Kong |
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Claudio de Magalhaes/ 9781447358855/ Price:GBP 80.00
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Increasingly, public space provision and management are being transferred from the public sector to real estate developers, private sector organisations, voluntary groups and community bodies. Contrasting the more historical, horizontal character of London with the intense street life of high-rise Hong Kong, this book tells the story of the two cities¡¦ relationships with non-traditional forms of public space governance.
The authors consider the implications for the ¡¥publicness¡¦ of these complex spaces and the challenges and impacts that different forms of provision have on those with a stake in them, and on the cities as a whole.
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Planning in a Failing State: Reforming Spatial Governance in England |
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Olivier Sykes/ 9781447365044/ Price:GBP 85.99
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This topical, edited collection analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of change since the Conservatives came into power. With a critique of ongoing planning reforms by the UK government, the book argues that the planning system is often blamed for a range of issues caused by ineffective policymaking by government.
Including chapters on housing, localism, design, zoning, and the consequences of Brexit for environmental planning, the contributors unpick a complicated set of recent reforms and counter the claims of the think-tank-led assault on democratic planning. |
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Private Renting in the Advanced Economies: Growth and Change in a Financialised World |
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Peter A. Kemp/ 9781447362081/ Price:GBP 85.00
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The private rental housing market plays an important and growing role in the advanced economies. Providing accommodation for a wider range of households than before the global financial crisis, rental housing is also a key asset class for private individuals and companies, while the rise of Airbnb lettings has pushed up rents and reduced the number of homes available to residents.
This edited collection by leading experts in the field analyses recent changes in the private rental market, using case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA, and assesses the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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Research Anthology on BIM and Digital Twins in Smart Cities |
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Information Resources Management Association/ 9781668475485/ Price:US$ 485.00
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In recent years, smart cities have been an emerging area of interest across the world. Due to this, numerous technologies and tools, such as building information modeling (BIM) and digital twins, have been developed to help achieve smart cities. To ensure research is continuously up to date and new technologies are considered within the field, further study is required.
The Research Anthology on BIM and Digital Twins in Smart Cities considers the uses, challenges, and opportunities of BIM and digital twins within smart cities. Covering key topics such as data, design, urban areas, technology, and sustainability, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, government officials, computer scientists, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡E3D Modeling
¡EArtificial Intelligence
¡EBIM
¡EData
¡EDesign
¡EDigital Twins
¡ESmart Cities
¡ESustainability
¡ETechnology
¡EUrban Areas |
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Beyond Neighbourhood Planning: Knowledge, Care, Legitimacy |
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Andy Yuille/ 9781447362845/ Price:GBP 26.99
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The past three decades have seen an international ¡¥turn to participation¡¦ ¡V letting those who will be affected by neighbourhood planning outcomes play an active role in decision-making ¡V but there is widespread dissatisfaction with actual instances of citizen-state engagement.
This innovative analysis brings theory, research and practice together and gives insights into how and why citizen voices either become effective or get excluded. Using ethnographic data to illustrate a wide range of participatory and localist governance practices and social movements, the book concludes with recommendations to re-invigorate community involvement in planning. |
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Beyond Neighbourhood Planning: Knowledge, Care, Legitimacy |
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Andy Yuille/ 9781447362838/ Price:GBP 85.99
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The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning |
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Adam Sheppard/ 9781447369813/ Price:GBP 14.99
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The fully updated Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides an concise introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. This second edition considers who planners are and what they do, showing how planning - as an art, science and system - has evolved as an organised action of the state.
The book discusses the planning system, processes, legal constructs and approaches, taking into account the recent regulatory changes within the UK nations. Restructured to improve readability, it explores the interactions of government and society with the planning system, and the relationship between urban planning, the environment, and placemaking. |
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Bringing Home the Housing Crisis: Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London |
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Mel Nowicki/ 9781447361862/ Price:GBP 24.99
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Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a ¡¥right to home¡¦ under current UK policies.
Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of political and media attitudes across three case studies ¡V the criminalisation of squatting, the bedroom tax, and family homelessness ¡V it explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people¡¦s rights to secure, decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving. The book includes practical lessons for housing academics, activists and policymakers.
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Bringing Home the Housing Crisis: Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London |
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Mel Nowicki/ 9781447361855/ Price:GBP 80.00
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Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities |
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Rory Coulter/ 9781447357674/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between homes and neighbourhoods over the lifespan.
This book presents a life course framework for understanding how the changing dynamics of people¡¦s family, education, employment and health experiences are deeply intertwined with ongoing shifts in housing behaviour and residential pathways. Particular attention is paid to how these processes help to drive uneven patterns of population change within and across neighbourhoods and localities.
Integrating the latest research from multiple disciplines, the author shows how housing and life course dynamics are together reshaping 21st-century inequalities in ways that demand greater attention from scholars and public policymakers. |
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Housing and Life Course Dynamics: Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities |
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Rory Coulter/ 9781447357667/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Inhabitation in Nature: Houses, People and Practices |
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David Clapham/ 9781447367802/ Price:GBP 80.00
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Rejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research framework that integrates housing with the rest of the natural world. Demonstrating the wider context of human lives and the impact of housing on the non-human environment, the author considers the impact of current inhabitation practices on climate change and biodiversity.
Showcasing the significant contribution that housing policy can make in mitigating environmental problems, this book will stimulate debate amongst housing researchers and policy makers. |
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Rural Poverty Today: Experiences of Social Exclusion in Rural Britain |
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Mark Shucksmith/ 9781447367123/ Price:GBP 80.00
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Poverty is perceived as an urban problem, yet many in rural Britain also experience hardship. This book explores how and why people in rural areas experience and negotiate poverty and social exclusion. It examines the role of societal processes, individual circumstances, sources of support (markets; state; voluntary organisations; family and friends) and the role of place.
It concludes that the UK¡¦s welfare system is poorly adapted to rural areas, with the COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and cutbacks exacerbating pressures. Voluntary organisations increasingly fill gaps in support left by the state. Invaluable to those in policy and practice, the book recommends a combination of person-based and place-based approaches to tackle rural poverty.
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It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate |
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John Bissett/ 9781447368229/ Price:GBP 19.99
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This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggles of those who live there.
The book puts the emphasis on class and gender processes, revealing them to be the crucial dynamics in the lives of public housing residents. The hope is that this understanding can help change perspectives on public housing in a way that diminishes suffering and contributes to human flourishing and well-being.
Combining long-term research into residents¡¦ lived experience with critical realist theory, it provides a completely fresh perspective on public housing in Ireland and arguably, beyond. |
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It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate |
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John Bissett/ 9781447368212/ Price:GBP 80.00
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Contesting Airport Expansion: Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures |
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Steven Griggs/ 9781447344285/ Price:GBP 80.00
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This book focuses on airport expansion and aviation as a wicked policy problem to illuminate wider theoretical debates and conceptualisations about policy analysis and social and political theory. It examines the authoritative role of expert commissions in seeking to settle ongoing controversies and discusses the concept of depoliticisation in debates about current and future policy analysis. The authors construct and employ an innovative form of poststructuralist policy analysis, which is used to delineate the rival rhetorical and discursive strategies articulated by the coalitions seeking to shape public policy. |
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3GE Collection on Social Science: Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities |
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3G Editorial Board/ 9781984660107/ Price:US$ 160.00
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Resilient communities are better able to plan for and take action to mitigate the risks from hazards, increase the pace of recovery from destructive events, and adapt to changing environments.
This book covers adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating resilience projects in cities and narrates it to persistent contemporary policy issues associated to urban climate change mitigation and adaptation. |
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The Short Guide to Community Development |
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Alison Gilchrist/ 9781447360728/ Price:GBP 14.99
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The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it.
This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities. It includes:
¡E a broad overview of core themes, concepts, basic practices and key issues in community development;
¡E an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on community life and well-being, along with the implications for longer-term community support;?
¡E additional brand new content on the pressing issues of?democratic decline, social fragmentation and isolation, social care pressures, technological developments and climate change. |
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Social Housing, Wellbeing and Welfare |
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James Gregory/ 9781447348504/ Price:GBP 24.95
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The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing public issues in Britain today, and this book analyses its role and value.
Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose of social housing in today¡¦s welfare state. The closing arguments of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing, designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households, with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the same equality of social status. |
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Rural Places and Planning: Stories from the Global Countryside |
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Menelaos Gkartzios/ 9781447356370/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Rural Places and Planning provides a compact analysis, for students and early-career practitioners, of the critical connections between place capitals and the broader ideas and practices of planning, seeded within rural communities. It looks across twelve international cases, examining the values that guide the pursuit of the ¡¥good countryside¡¦.
The book presents rural planning ¡V rooted in imagination and reflecting key values - as being embedded in the life of particular places, dealing with critical challenges across housing, services, economy, natural systems, climate action and community wellbeing in ways that are integrated and recognise broader place-making needs. It introduces the breadth of the discipline, presenting examples of what planning means and what it can achieve in different rural places. |
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What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies |
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Abigail Schoneboom/ 9781447365976/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments.
The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and researchers into the everyday lives of planners and those in associated built environment occupations. This exceptional account of the micro-politics of a knowledge-intensive profession also provides an excellent resource for sociologists of contemporary work. The authors use team ethnography to push the methodological frontiers of planning research and to advance organisational ethnography into new areas. |
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Stay Home: Housing and Home in the UK During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Becky Tunstall/ 9781447365891/ Price:GBP 22.99
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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically exposed weaknesses in UK housing¡¦s relationship to the labour market and welfare system. Inequalities in household type, home occupancy, housing cost and security have contributed to the unequal impact of the disease.
Comprehensively charting fast-moving and inter-linked policy developments, Becky Tunstall assesses the position of housing and home in public policy, health and in peoples¡¦ lives, and documents the most immediate responses to the pandemic in one convenient resource for students, scholars and practitioners. |
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Stay Home: Housing and Home in the UK During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Becky Tunstall/ 9781447365884/ Price:GBP 85.00
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The Urban Planning Imagination: A Critical International Introduction. |
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Nicholas A. Phelps/ 9781509526246/ Price:US$ 69.95
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Post-Pandemic Urbanism |
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Doris Kleilein/ 9783868597103/ Price:EUR 24.00
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Sustainable Mega City Communities |
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Woodrow W. Clark II/ 9780128187937/ Price:US$ 129.00
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Urban Planning for Transitions |
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Nicolas Douay/ 9781786306753/ Price:US$ 177.95
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Circular Cities: A Revolution in Urban Sustainability |
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Jo Williams/ 9780367748166/ Price:GBP 36.99
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The Politics and Ideology of Planning |
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Tim Marshall/ 9781447337218/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Planning is a battleground of ideas and interests, perhaps more visibly and continuously than ever before in the UK. These battles play out nationally and at every level, from cities to the smallest neighbourhoods.
Marshall goes to the root of current planning models and exposes who is acting for what purposes across these battlegrounds. He examines the ideological structuring of planning and the interplay of political forces which act out conflicting interest positions.
This book discusses how structures of planning can be improved and explores how we can generate more effective political engagements in the future. |
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Causes and Effect of Urban Unemployment |
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P.M. Ananth/ 9781774076743/ Price:US$ 155.00
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The book 'Causes and Effect of Urban Unemployment' takes the readers through the various issues with respect to unemployment in the urban areas. The urbanization is on a rise, but the job sector is not moving with the same pace and it is extremely difficult to catch the pace as well. Due to the lag, there is an unwanted situation of unemployment, which further results in more problems. This book enlists various causes and impacts of unemployment in the urban areas and also suggests ways in which some positive changes can be made. |
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Urban Development in the Third World |
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Godwin .U. Enebeli/ 9781774077962/ Price:US$ 155.00
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The third world countries are some of the very fast developing nations in the present times. Urban Development in the Third World as a book takes the readers through the ways in which these countries are changing the way they are perceived and list down various areas of opportunities that these countries offer as a developing nation. The book emphasizes on the urbanization taking place in these countries and also the pace of it and also lays down the best ways possible for the urban development in these countries. It also takes the readers through a possible scenario in future of these developing urban areas. |
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Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London |
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Paul Watt/ 9781447329190/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Public housing estates are disappearing from London¡¦s skyline in the name of regeneration, but what impact is state-led gentrification having on London¡¦s marginalised communities?
Watt provides a vivid interdisciplinary account of estate regeneration in London in relation to key housing and urban policy debates, using original interviews from residents in some of the capital¡¦s most deprived areas to show the dramatic ways that regeneration is fuelling socio-spatial inequalities. Foregrounding resident experiences and perspectives throughout multiple stages of the regeneration process, he examines themes of belonging, place-attachment, community and home amidst the decline of London¡¦s council housing estates and increasing polarisation between the have-nots and have-lots. |
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Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London |
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Paul Watt/ 9781447329183/ Price:GBP 80.00
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The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy, Urban Politics and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City |
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Cian O'Callaghan/ 9781447356875/ Price:GBP 80.00
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This book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy.
Centering urban vacancy as a core feature of urbanization, the contributors coalesce new empirical insights on the impacts of recent contestations over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe.
Using international case studies from the Global North and Global South, it sheds important new light on the complexity of forces and processes shaping urban vacancy and its re-use, exploring these areas as both lived spaces and sites of political antagonism. It explores what has and hasn¡¦t worked in re-purposing vacant sites and provides sustainable blueprints for future development. |
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Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions |
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Timothy J. Dixon/ 9781447330936/ Price:GBP 80.00
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City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of city visions, placing them in the wider context of art, culture, science, foresight and urban theory.
It highlights and critically reviews examples of city visions from around the world, contrasting their development and outlining the key benefits and challenges in planning such visions.
The authors show how important it is to think about the future of cities in objective and strategic ways, engaging with a range of stakeholders ¡V something more important than ever as we look to visions of a sustainable future beyond the COVID-19 crisis. |
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Megacities and Rapid Urbanization: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice |
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Information Resources Management Association/ 9781522592761/ Price:US$ 380.00
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As the global population continues to increase, it has become necessary to find ways to handle this increase through various policy tools that address population growth and urbanization problems. The urbanization process has both potential issues and opportunities that need to be exploited to move societies forward.
Megacities and Rapid Urbanization: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines trends, challenges, issues, and strategies related to population growth and rapid urbanization and its impact on urban environments. The book also explores the use of different governance approaches in addressing challenges and different tools and systems of appropriate allocation to address issues. This publication is an ideal reference source for academicians, students, practitioners, professionals, managers, urban planners, and government officials.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EEffective Management
¡EEnvironmental Effects
¡EHousing Management
¡EIndustrialization
¡ESustainable Cities
¡ETransportation Systems
¡EUrban Governance
¡EUrban Growth
¡EUrban Planning
¡EUrban Sprawl |
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Are We There Yet?: The Myths and Realities of Autonomous Vehicles |
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Michael A. Pagano/ 9780252043567/ Price:US$ 110.00
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The Self-Build Experience: Institutionalization, Place-Making and City Building |
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Willem Salet/ 9781447348429/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban prosperity differs across these contexts, there exists a recurring, cross-continental, tension between formal governance and self-regulation.
Contributors examine the multifaceted regulation dilemmas of self-building under the conditions of modernisation and consider alternative methods of institutionalisation, place-making and urban design, reconceptualising the moral and managerial ownership of the city. Innovative in scope, this book provides an array of globalised solutions for navigating regulatory tensions in order to optimise sustainable development for the future. |
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Rescaling Urban Governance: Planning, Localism and Institutional Change |
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John Sturzaker/ 9781447350774/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Cities across the globe face unprecedented challenges as a result of ever-increasing pressure from climate change, migration, ageing populations and resource shortages. In order to guarantee a sustainable global future, these issues demand radical new approaches to how we govern our cities.
Providing new research and thinking about cities, their governance and innovative models of planning reform, this timely and important book compares the UK with an array of international examples to examine cutting-edge experimentation and innovation in new models of governance and urban policy.
The flagship text of the Urban Policy, Planning and Built Environment series, this broad but accessible volume is ideal for students and provides and authoritative single point of reference for teaching. |
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The Fall and Rise of Social Housing: 100 Years on 20 Estates |
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Becky Tunstall/ 9781447351375/ Price:GBP 30.99
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Drawing on a unique archive spanning the lifetime of twenty council estate projects in the UK and using hundreds of resident voices, this book reveals the secrets of council housing¡¦s failures and successes, and the reasons for them.
Bringing to light the complex variety of the lived experiences of residents, it shows how estate pathways were predetermined by factors such as location, design and date, as well as by their local and national social, economic and political contexts. The book highlights what can be learned from some of the successes of less successful housing projects and provides lessons for building sustainable communities in the twenty-first century. |
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Metropolitan Sustainability |
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Solange Uwera/ 9781774072752/ Price:US$ 165.00
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Metropolitan Sustainability introduces the readers to the metropolitan life in the current world. It talks about the planning and decentralization in the metropolitan cities and the sustainability that must be maintained from the point if view of the environment. It provides the basic insights t the readers on the various things that need to be considered while the metropolitan cities are functioning and emphasizes on the fact that the people need to look for sustainability in the metropolitan cities. This book also discusses about the sustainability from the point of view of infrastructure, the accessibility and transportation in the metropolitan cities, the industrial sustainability in the metropolitan cities and the growth strategies for sustainable development. |
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Urban Development: Environmental Planning and Understanding |
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Solange Uwera/ 9781774072943/ Price:US$ 165.00
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Urban Development: Environmental Planning And Understanding makes the people aware about the ways in which the urban areas are planned and the how the planning of these areas must also consider the environment and its planning. This book also discusses about the global perspective on the urban development, the subject of habitat conservation in urban development, the role of transportation, space and technology in urban development, the planning and control of urban areas, the use of land and its efficiency in urban planning, necessity of environmental education while urban planning and assessing the sustainability of the urban development. This book provides the necessary insights on the subject of urban planning to the readers so that they can understand the importance of environment and its consideration in the urban planning and sustainability. |
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Housing Shock: The Irish Housing Crisis and How to Solve It |
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Rory Hearne/ 9781447353904/ Price:GBP 23.99
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The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wider inequality and threatening the economy.
Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within the broader global housing situation by examining the origins of the crisis in terms of austerity, marketisation and the new era of financialisation, where global investors are making housing unaffordable and turning it into an asset for the wealthy.
He brings to the fore the perspectives of those most affected, new housing activists and protesters whilst providing innovative global solutions for a new vision for affordable, sustainable homes for all. |
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The Property Lobby: The Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis |
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In this accessible and passionately argued book, Bob Colenutt goes to the roots of the long-term crisis in housing and planning in the UK.
Providing a much needed, in depth critique of the nexus of power of landowners, house builders, financial backers and politicians that makes up the property lobby, this radical book reveals how this complex, self-serving and intimidating network perpetuates a cycle of low supply, high prices and poor building which has resulted in one of the biggest social and economic challenges of our time. With radical ideas for solutions, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in housing, planning and social justice. |
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Populism, Democracy and Community Development |
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Sue Kenny/ 9781447353843/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Using international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today¡¦s widespread crisis of democracy.
It investigates the development, meanings and manifestations of contemporary forms of populism and explores the synergies and contradictions between the values and practices of populism and community development.
Contributors examine the ways that the ascendancy of right-wing populist politics is influencing the landscapes within which community development is located and they offer new insights on how the field can understand and respond to the challenges of populism. |
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Populism, Democracy and Community Development |
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Sue Kenny/ 9781447353836/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Romani Communities and Transformative Change: A New Social Europe |
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Andrew Ryder/ 9781447357506/ Price:GBP 12.99
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Co-Creation in Theory and Practice: Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South |
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Christina Horvath/ 9781447353966/ Price:GBP 26.99
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This innovative book provides a critical analysis of diverse experiences of Co-creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North and Global South.
A unique collection of international researchers, artists and activists explore how creative, arts-based methods of community engagement can help tackle marginalisation and stigmatisation, whilst empowering communities to effect positive change towards more socially just cities.
Focusing on community collaboration, arts practice, and knowledge sharing, this book proposes various methods of Co-Creation for community engagement and assesses the effectiveness of different practices in highlighting, challenging, and reversing issues that most affect urban cohesion in contemporary cities. |
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Co-Creation in Theory and Practice: Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South |
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Christina Horvath/ 9781447353959/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Reviving Local Authority Housing Delivery: Challenging Austerity Through Municipal Entrepreneurialism |
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Janice Morphet/ 9781447355748/ Price:GBP 42.99
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This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery.
Capturing this moment within its live context, the authors examine the ways that local authorities are moving towards increased financial independence based on their own activities to implement new forms and means of housebuilding activity. They assess these changes in the context of the long-term relationship between local and central government and argue that contemporary local authority housing initiatives represent a critical turning point, whilst also providing new ways of thinking about meting housing need. |
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Ambient Urbanities as the Intersection Between the IoT and the IoP in Smart Cities |
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H. Patricia McKenna/ 9781522578826/ Price:US$ 195.00
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Modern day and technology-rich environments require a reconceptualization of how the nature of technology influences urban areas. Rethinking the way we apply these technologies will not only alter the way people communicate and interact, but it will also alter how individuals learn and explore the world around them.
Ambient Urbanities as the Intersection Between the IoT and the IoP in Smart Cities offers insights about the ambient in 21st century smart cities, learning cities, responsive cities, and future cities, and highlights the importance of people as critical to the urban fabric of smart cities that are increasingly embedded with pervasive and often invisible technologies. The book, based on an urban research study, explores urbanity from multiple perspectives ranging from the cultural to the geographic. While highlighting topics including digital literacies, smarter governance, and information architectures, this book is ideally designed for students, educators, researchers, the business community, city government staff and officials, urban practitioners, and those concerned with contemporary and emerging complex urban challenges and opportunities.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EDigital Literacies
¡EEvolving Economics
¡EFuture Perspectives
¡EInformation Architectures
¡EMeasuring Standards
¡ESmarter Governance
¡ETheoretical Spaces
¡EUrban Interactions
¡EUrban Layers
¡EUrban Understandings |
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Driving the Development, Management, and Sustainability of Cognitive Cities |
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Kiran Ahuja/ 9781522580850/ Price:US$ 225.00
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The technological advancements of today not only affect individual¡¦s personal lives. They also affect the way urban communities regard the improvement of their resident¡¦s lives. Research involving these autonomic reactions to the growing needs of the people is desperately needed to transform the cities of today into the cities of the future.
Driving the Development, Management, and Sustainability of Cognitive Cities is a pivotal reference source that explores and improves the understanding of the strategic role of sustainable cognitive cities in residents¡¦ routine life styles. Such benefits to residents and businesses include having access to world-class training while sitting at home, having their wellbeing observed consistently, and having their medical issues identified before occurrence. This book is ideally designed for administrators, policymakers, industrialists, and researchers seeking current research on developing and managing cognitive cities.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EBehavior Analysis
¡EBig Data Management
¡ECognitive Trust
¡ECommunication Models
¡EData Analytics
¡EEnergy Systems
¡EGreen Sustainability
¡EInformation Systems
¡EIntelligent Systems
¡EKnowledge Transfer |
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Smart Cities and Smart Spaces: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Information Resources Management Association/ 9781522570301/ Price:US$ 945.00
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As populations have continued to grow and expand, many people have made their homes in cities around the globe. With this increase in city living, it is becoming vital to create intelligent urban environments that efficiently support this growth and simultaneously provide friendly and progressive environments to both businesses and citizens alike.
Smart Cities and Smart Spaces: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an innovative reference source that discusses social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding the evolution of smart cities. Highlighting a range of topics such as smart destinations, urban planning, and intelligent communities, this multi-volume book is designed for engineers, architects, facility managers, policymakers, academicians, and researchers interested in expanding their knowledge on the emerging trends and topics involving smart cities.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EBuilding Components
¡ECity Innovation
¡EIntelligent Communities
¡ESmart Destinations
¡ESustainability
¡ESystem Dynamic Models
¡EUbiquitous Interactive Spaces
¡EUrban Planning
¡EVisualization Techniques
¡EWeb-Based Services and Planning
¡ETable of Contents and List of Contributors
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The Short Guide to Town and Country Plannings |
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Adam Sheppard/ 9781447344438/ Price:GBP 15.99
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The short guide to town and country planning provides a short, introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. The book considers who planners are and what they do, presenting a historical narrative of the emergence of planning as an organised action of the state.
The book discusses planning implementation and delivery with a consideration of planning decision making, and the process of development. It further explores ideas of governance and of government and society and their interactions through the planning system. This book looks at current and future pressures, dynamics, and challenges, encouraging the reader to adopt a reflective and inquisitive outlook. |
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Whose Housing Crisis?: Assets and Homes in a Changing Economy |
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Nick Gallent/ 9781447346074/ Price:GBP 23.99
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At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing¡¦s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment and equity release for individuals, or guarantee rising public revenues, sustain consumer confidence and provide evidence of ¡¥growth¡¦ for economies. The refunctioning of housing in the twentieth century is a cause of great social inequality, as housing becomes a place to park and extract wealth and as governments do all they can to keep house prices on an upward track. |
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Whose Housing Crisis?: Assets and Homes in a Changing Economy
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Nick Gallent/ 9781447345312/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Transport Matters |
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Iain Docherty/ 9781447329558/ Price:GBP 85.99
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Designing the Compassionate City: Creating Places Where People Thrive. |
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Jenny Donovan/ 9781138562707/ Price:GBP 175.00
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How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside |
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Shaun Spiers/ 9781447339991/ Price:GBP 10.99
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England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside.
Addressing both sides of this critical debate, Shaun Spiers argues that to drive house building on the scale needed, government must strike a contract with civil society: in return for public support and acceptance of the loss of some countryside, it must guarantee high quality, affordable developments, in the right locations. Simply imposing development, as recent governments of all political persuasions have attempted, will not work.
Focusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn¡¦t work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government. |
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Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry. |
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Maibritt Pedersen Zari/ 9781138079489/ Price:GBP 135.00
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The Syntax of City Space: American Urban Grids. |
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Mark David Major/ 9781138301573/ Price:GBP 61.99
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Property Asset Management |
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Douglas Scarrett/ 9781138644236/ Price:GBP 43.99
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Enabling Participatory Planning: Planning Aid and Advocacy in Neo-liberal Times. |
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Gavin Parker/ 9781447341390/ Price:GBP 41.99
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his book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neo-liberalised 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 and include the most vulnerable in society is more acute than ever. However, forms of Advocacy Planning, the progressive concept championed for this purpose since the 1960s, is under threat from neo-liberalisation.
Rather than abandoning advocacy, the book asserts that only through sustained critical engagement will issues of exclusion be positively tackled and addressed. The authors propose neo-advocacy planning as the critical lens through which to effect positive change. This, they argue, will need to draw on a co-production model maintained through a well-resourced special purpose organisation set up to mobilise and resource planning intermediaries whose role it is to activate, support and educate those without the resources to secure such advocacy themselves. |
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Present and Future of Urban Planning. |
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Tanjina Nur/ 9781773611433/ Price:US$ 160.00
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Presenting a framework of adaptive risk governance for urban planning; this book reveals why previous community planning practices have failed and suggests that improvements can be made by taking into consideration the diverse needs of a multicultural society. This timely book, explains the changes that have transformed urban planning and intended to inform and inspire citizens, legislators, administrators, technocrats, and planners to shape cities for the benefit and enjoyment of all. |
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Developments and Issues in Urban Engineering and Transportation. |
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Andy Johnson/ 9781682513118/ Price:US$ 150.00
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Urban engineering has become a subject of major interest for students, academia and practicing engineers in the government and private sector. Transport plays a crucial role in urban development by providing access for people to education, markets, employment, recreation, health care and other key services. This book will be of interest as a credible source can be very applicable and useful for all professors, researchers, students, experienced technical professionals, practitioners and others interested in urban transportation systems. |
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Regional Development and Land Use Change. |
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Quan Cui/ 9781773611150/ Price:US$ 160.00
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Land use/cover change (LUCC), especially conversion and degradation of natural land, is the key factor causing terrestrial carbon stocks declines in the world. As we noticed the main driving force of LUCC is human activities and socio-economic development, many types of research have been conducted. This book contains reviews on regional land-use change and socio-economic relations, special issues like deforestation and urbanization, environmental impacts of land-use change, LUCC on energy flow, specific elements stocks related with LUCC, carbon storage and LUCC, et al. Combing studies from different angles, this book give its readers an up-to-date concept about what regional development and land-use change can do to our society and nature. |
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Urban Planning and Development Issues. |
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Sudha Menon/ 9781773612294/ Price:US$ 155.00
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The dynamics of different cities and towns can only be managed through the urban planning, designing and development. The globalization with advance technology has also derived the economy towards on the rise in the fast manner, which is dangerous for cities and towns if they will not adapt change. The sustainability can only be achieved and attained through the skillfulness. The book is all about adaptation towards change and new life style choices through urban planning, designing and development. The book is based on a belief that the cities and towns can be made more sustainable and it is a fact that human beings cannot reside in places without sustainable cities and towns. |
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Urban Sociology: An Introduction to the Study of Urban Communities. |
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Sudha Menon/ 9781773613338/ Price:US$ 155.00
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This book provides information about the nature and scope of urban sociology with all the aspects of city life. This comprehensive text extends the discussion of the challenges faced by urban sociology in the global age, while covering the issues traditionally associated with urban sociology. It relies on the related sciences and borrows from history, economics, social psychology, public administration and social work. |
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Urban Planning and Development. |
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S.Taylor/ 9781682513101/ Price:US$ 150.00
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People living in rural areas typically tap the opportunities that cities provide for employment, entrepreneurial avenues, and education. This Book highlights some of the problems and discusses possible solutions in terms of organization, planning and management. This book is a compendium of selected chapters, of great significancefor understanding the urban development issues, contributed by well-known authors in this scientific field. All the chapters have been comprehensively reviewed and cover some basic aspects about urban sustainability, urban extension, urban planning, urban setting, housing and land uses. |
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Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: Power to the People? |
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Brownill, Sue/ 9781447329503/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Governments around the world are seeing the locality as a key arena for effecting changes in governance, restructuring state/civil society relations and achieving sustainable growth. This is the first book to critically analyse this shift towards localism in planning through exploring neighbourhood planning; one of the fastest growing, most popular and most contentious contemporary planning initiatives.
Bringing together original empirical research with critical perspectives on governance and planning, the book engages with broader debates on the purposes of planning, the construction of active citizenship, the uneven geographies of localism and the extent to which power is actually being devolved. Setting this within an international context with cases from the US, Australia and France the book reflects on the possibilities for the emergence of a more progressive form of localism. |
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Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City. |
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Doucet, Brian/ 9781447327875/ Price:GBP 28.99
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Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit¡¦s relevance grows stronger. Why
Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, post-industrial city.
Contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by influential writers, planners, artists and activists who have contributed chapters drawing on their experiences and ideas. The book concludes with interviews with some of the city¡¦s most important visionaries who are engaged in inspiring practices which provide powerful lessons for Detroit and other cities around the world.
The book will be a valuable reference for scholars, practitioners and students from across disciplines including geography, planning, architecture, sociology, urban studies, history, American studies, and economics. |
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Land Use Planning and Management. |
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Cortes, Pauline G. T./ 9781680946277/ Price:US$ 145.00
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This book involves studies on the environmental effects of land use and its impact on the community. It provides a practical understanding of the mechanisms, tools, and levers that can be used to achieve strategic and proactive urban governance. The process by which lands are evaluated and assessed to become a basis for decisions involving land disposition and utilization. Land management is the process of managing the use and development (in both urban and rural settings) of land resources. Land resources are used for a variety of purposes which may include organic agriculture, reforestation, water resource management and eco-tourism projects. |
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Illustrated Handbook of Urban Planning & Design. |
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This illustrated handbook brings together the imaginative and generative strength of design to structure, visualize and communicate urban proposals with the analytic rigor of urban planning methodologies, tools and the policy role. It develops competence in urban planning and design grounded in a solid knowledge base, while advancing professional skills through task-based learning and tools for experimentation and innovation. Urban design is the process by which cities, towns, and villages are shaped, with the goal of making urban areas functional, attractive, and sustainable. It unites all the built environment professions, including urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, civil and municipal engineering, and focuses on the design, quality, character and appearance of places. Urban planning is the process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment, including air, water, and infrastructure networks. It guides and ensures the orderly development of communities, and concerns itself with research and analysis, strategic thinking, policy recommendations, implementation, and management. |
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The Geography of Urban Transportation. |
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Giuliano, Genevieve/ 9781462529650/ Price:US$ 75.00
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A comprehensive update, the fourth edition of this leading text features numerous chapters by new authors addressing the latest trends and topics in the field. The book presents the foundational concepts and methodological tools that readers need in order to engage with today's pressing urban transportation policy issues. Coverage encompasses passenger and freight dynamics in the American metropolis; the local and regional transportation planning process; and questions related to public transit, land use, social equity and environmental justice, energy consumption, air pollution, transportation finance, sustainability, and more. Among the student-friendly features are special-topic boxes delving into key issues and 87 instructive figures, including eight color plates.
New to This Edition
Extensively revised coverage of information and communication technologies, urban freight, travel behaviors, and regional transportation planning.
Engaging discussions of current topics: smartphone travel tracking, Uber, car and bike sharing, food deserts, biofuels, and more.
Heightened focus on climate change.
Reflects over a decade of policy changes, technological advances, and emergent ideas and findings in the field.
Most of the figures and special-topic boxes are new. |
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Urban Land Use: Community-Based Planning. |
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Etingoff, Kim/ 9781771884853/ Price:GBP 105.00
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Joint Fact-Finding in Urban Planning and Environmental Disputes. |
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Matsuura, Masahiro/ 9781138120181/ Price:GBP 43.99
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Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City |
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Brian Doucet/ 9781447327868/ Price:GBP 85.99
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Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit¡¦s relevance grows stronger. Why
Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, post-industrial city.
Contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by influential writers, planners, artists and activists who have contributed chapters drawing on their experiences and ideas. The book concludes with interviews with some of the city¡¦s most important visionaries who are engaged in inspiring practices which provide powerful lessons for Detroit and other cities around the world.
The book will be a valuable reference for scholars, practitioners and students from across disciplines including geography, planning, architecture, sociology, urban studies, history, American studies, and economics. |
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Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: Power to the People? |
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Sue Brownill/ 9781447329497/ Price:GBP 85.99
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Spatial Planning and Resilience Following Disasters: International and Comparative Perspectives |
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Stefan Greiving/ 9781447323594/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Population shifts and an increase in the number of natural (and man-made) disasters are having a profound effect on urban and rural habitats globally. This book brings together for the first time the experiences and knowledge of international contributors from academia, research, policy and practice to discuss the role of spatial planning after significant disasters. It highlights on-going efforts to improve spatial resilience across the globe and predicts future trends. Comparisons from five countries including Japan, the US, Indonesia, Slovakia and Germany, highlight the influence of significant disasters on spatial planning and spatial resiliency under different legal-administrative and cultural frameworks. |
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Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory |
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Yvonne Rydin/ 9781138573475/ Price:GBP 47.99
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Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Accessible, Green and Fair. |
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Simon, David/ 9781447332848/ Price:GBP 11.99
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Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally at a time when urban areas worldwide are threatened by climate/environmental change.
This compact book is designed to make a signal contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining clearly the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere, namely that they should be fair, green and accessible.
These three terms form key tenets of the work of Mistra Urban Futures (MUF), an international research centre on sustainable urbanisation based in Gothenburg, Sweden, and working through transdisciplinary research platforms there, in Greater Manchester (UK), Cape Town (South Africa) and Kisumu (Kenya). Additional platforms are being established in southern Sweden, Asia and Africa. |
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English Planning in Crisis: Ten Steps to a Sustainable Future. |
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Ellis, Hugh/ 9781447330349/ Price:GBP 9.99
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The English planning system is in crisis, argue the authors of this provocative new book. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis provide a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, assessing the implications and significance for the future.
They highlight why planning is so essential to quality of life and set out 10 evidence-based steps to rebuild the planning system in England. Drawing on policy and practice examples from across the UK and internationally, the book is a manifesto for change. It provides a direct and vigorous challenge to the current structure and policy of planning that should ignite a debate about the values that shape its future. |
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Cities for a Small Continent: International Handbook of City Recovery. |
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Power, Anne/ 9781447327530/ Price:GBP 27.99
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This original book builds on the author¡¦s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe¡¦s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities, with their contrasting conditions, history and performance generating contrasting reactions. The book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities, over the past ten years. Across the continent social cohesion, community investment and social enterprise have gained momentum as Europe¡¦s crowded, resource-constrained cities face up to environmental and social limits faster than other less densely urban countries, such as the US. The author presents a compelling framework to show that Europe¡¦s cities are creating a new industrial economy to combat environmental and social unravelling. |
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Handbook of Urban Planning & Design. |
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Cooper, Dale/ 9781682500637/ Price:US$ 180.00
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Urban design and planning is created upon the social, environmental, political, aesthetic and economic importance of design in the public realm, serving the public interest. It focuses on the intersections between architecture, landscape architecture, planning and geography. The design of urban places explores two strongly related fields of environmental practice: urban design as the shaping of urban space and urban planning as the strategic and regulatory mediation of urban change. This book highlights some of these problems and discusses possible solutions in terms of urban, planning and management. |
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Urbanisation & Urban Planning. |
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Dorning, Monica A./ 9781682500675/ Price:US$ 170.00
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Urbanisation is a population shift from rural to urban areas, ¡§the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas¡¨, and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. It is predominantly the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas. Rapid urbanisation presents new and substantial challenges, ranging from governance and citizenship to infrastructure, housing, and the environment. Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the use of land, protection and use of the environment, public welfare, and the design of the urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks. This book focuses on key issues that emerge in rapidly growing cities of the developing world. |
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Urban Environment Management. |
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Shah Md. Atiqul Haq/ 9781682500682/ Price:US$ 170.00
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Urban environment management (UEM) responds to the need to examine urban environment and housing problems from the management and planning perspectives to promote sustainable urban development. The UEM develops the capabilities and skills to confront deteriorating en-vironmental conditions that threaten urban productivity, quality of life of urban residents and social cohesion of urban communities. Urban Environment Management looks at urban areas as the intersection of natural, built, and socio-economic environments, to create sustainable urban ecosystems. The objectives of this book are to explore local environmental problems of cities, as well as its impacts on global challenges. |
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Urban Renewal: Policy & Management. |
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Jalaludin, Bin/ 9781682500699/ Price:US$ 170.00
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Urban renewal, is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use. Urban renewal involves the relocation of businesses, the demolition of structures, the relocation of people, and the use of eminent domain as a legal instrument to take private property for city-initiated development projects. Urban renewal has been seen by proponents as an eco-nomic engine and a reform mechanism, and by critics as a mechanism for control. It may enhance existing communities, and in some cases result in the demolition of neighborhoods. The book con-centrates on urban renewal focusing on the social and physical aspects of this process. |
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Urban Geography. |
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Ortiz, Erik/ 9781682500934/ Price:US$ 170.00
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Urban geography, with reference to their geographical environment, is related to the study of urban places. It consists of origin of towns, their growth and development, their functions in and nearby their surroundings. Urban geographers are mainly focused with the ways in cities and towns are built, administered and practiced. Urban geography studies the effect of urban processes on the earth¡¦s surface¡¦s social and physical structures. |
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Urban Planning: Theory & Practice. |
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Uslu, Aysel/ 9781682510810/ Price:US$ 170.00
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Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the use of land, protection and use of the environment, public welfare, and the design of the urban environment. It ensures the orderly development of settlements and satellite communities which commute into and out of urban areas or share resources with it. This book covers the factors into consideration when choosing the locations for buildings, and sets up appropriate zones accordingly. |
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Exploring the Production of Urban Space: Differential Space in Three Post-Industrial Cities. |
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Leary-Owhin, Michael E./ 9781447305743/ Price:GBP 79.99
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The ideas of Henri Lefebvre on the production of urban space have become increasingly useful for understanding world-wide post-industrial city transformation. This important book uses new international comparative research to engage critically with Lefebvre¡¦s spatial theories and challenge recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Meticulous research in three iconic post-industrial cities in the UK and North America, explains how urban public spaces, including differential space are socially produced. The book contributes critically to the post-industrial city comparative analysis literature. It provides an accessible guide for those who care about public space, city planning and urban policy. |
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Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics. |
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Myers, Garth/ 9781447322924/ Price:GBP 27.99
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| SC09-451 |
Restructuring Public Transport through Bus Rapid Transit: An International and Interdisciplinary Perspective. |
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Munoz, Juan C./ 9781447326168/ Price:GBP 85.99
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Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors bring expertise in fields ranging from engineering, planning and public policy to economics and urban design from both developed and developing countries, to provide a big picture assessment of BRT as part of a process for restructuring transit systems. Academically rigorous, based on 5 years of research conducted by the BRT Centre of Excellence, the book is written in an accessible style making it a valuable resource for academic researchers and postgraduate students as well as policy makers and practitioners. |
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After Urban Regeneration: Communities, Policy and Place. |
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O'Brien, Dave/ 9781447324164/ Price:GBP 27.99
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After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed, and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the book provides an essential antidote to those who claim that culture and society can replicate the role of the state. Based on research from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council¡¦s Connected Communities programme and with a unique set of case studies drawing on artistic and cultural community work, the book will appeal to scholars and students in geography, urban studies, planning, sociology, law and art as well as policy makers and community workers. |
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Cities for a Small Continent: International Handbook of City Recovery |
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Anne Power/ 9781447327523/ Price:GBP 85.99
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People and Places: A Twenty-First Century Atlas of the UK |
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Danny Dorling/ 9781447311362/ Price:GBP 90.99
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Community Development in Action: Putting Freire into Practice. |
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Ledwith, Margaret/ 9781847428752/ Price:GBP 17.99
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In a world in which social divisions are widening not lessening, it is essential for community development, or any other practice committed to social justice and sustainability, to understand how power works at every level, from grassroots projects to movements for change. This exciting and practical book is filled to the brim with useful ideas for busy practitioners. Building on the work of Paulo Freire, theories are presented in interesting and straightforward ways to provide an everyday reference for practice. Contained in these pages is all you need to give your practice a critical edge! |
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The Short Guide to Urban Policy. |
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Edwards, Claire/ 9781447307990/ Price:GBP 14.99
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With an ever increasing proportion of the world's population inhabiting urban environments, the management of cities remains a perennial challenge for governments and policymakers. This concise, but wide-ranging text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been defined and addressed in different places at different times. From initiatives that focus on social tensions within the urban realm, to those which seek to develop cities as economic entities, the book provides an accessible discussion and critique of some of the key approaches that have characterised urban policy across the globe. Providing case studies of urban policy actions, explanations of key concepts, and succinct chapter summaries, this unique introductory text is invaluable reading for both students and practitioners who are new to the area of urban policy, and who wish to understand and assess policy responses to the challenges posed by urban living and lifestyles. |
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How to Save Our Town Centres: A Radical Agenda for the Future of High Streets. |
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Dobson, Julian/ 9781447323938/ Price:GBP 27.99
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Has the age of the internet killed our high streets? Have our town and city centres become obsolete? How to Save Our Town Centres delves below the surface of empty buildings and ¡¥shop local¡¦ campaigns to focus on the real issues: how the relationship between people and places is changing, how business is done and who benefits, and how the use and ownership of land affects us all. Written in an engaging and accessible style and illustrated with numerous original interviews, the book sets out a comprehensive and coherent agenda for long term citizen-led change. It will be a valuable resource for policymakers and researchers in planning, architecture and the built environment, economic development and community participation. |
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Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement. |
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Lees, Loretta/ 9781447313489/ Price:GBP 31.99
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Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the ¡¥usual suspects¡¦ of the Global North. Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book (re)discovers the important generalities and geographical specificities associated with the uneven process of gentrification globally. It highlights intensifying global struggles over urban space and underlines gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world. The book will be of value to students and academics, policy makers, planners and community organisations. |
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Leading the Inclusive City: Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet. |
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Hambleton, Robin/ 9781447304968/ Price:GBP 28.99
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Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future in accordance with progressive values ¡V advancing social justice, promoting care for the environment and bolstering community empowerment. This international and comparative book, written by an experienced author, shows how inspirational civic leaders are making a major difference in cities across the world. The analysis provides practical lessons for local leaders and a significant contribution to thinking on public service innovation for anyone who wants to change urban society for the better. |
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Renewing Europe's Housing. |
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Turkington, Richard/ 9781447310129/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Many European cities have a shortage of good quality, affordable housing, but this problem has become less prominent in policy than it should be. This timely book aims to redress that balance. After an introductory chapter, expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries in its physical, economic, social, community and cultural aspects. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of the public and private sectors form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe. The concluding chapters draw conclusions from a pan-European perspective and consider the future prospects for renewing older housing. Academics, practitioners, policy-makers and students of housing, urban studies, planning, regeneration, environmental health and sustainability will all want to read this book. |
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Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement. |
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Lees, Loretta/ 9781447313472/ Price:GBP 95.99
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Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide. Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the ¡¥usual suspects¡¦ of the Global North. Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book (re)discovers the important generalities and geographical specificities associated with the uneven process of gentrification globally. It highlights intensifying global struggles over urban space and underlines gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world. The book will be of value to students and academics, policy makers, planners and community organisations. |
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Whose Land is Our Land?: The Use and Abuse of Britain's Forgotten Acres. |
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Hetherington, Peter/ 9781447325321/ Price:GBP 8.99
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Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying up thousands of acres annually to avoid tax. If planning permission is given for new housing, prices can rise fifty-fold - making a vast profit for a few and home ownership a distant dream for many. In this provocative book, journalist Peter Hetherington argues that Britain, particularly England, needs an active policy to address these areas and stronger action by the government. This important debate will attract interest among academics and postgraduates in planning, surveying, housing management, rural policy and social policy, political organisations, the Third Sector, social enterprises, national housing organisations, community and voluntary groups. |
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After Urban Regeneration: Communities, Policy and Place. |
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Dave O'Brien/ 9781447324157/ Price:GBP 79.99
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After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in urban policy. Engaging with debates as to how urban policy has changed, and continues to change, following the financial crash of 2008, the book provides an essential antidote to those who claim that culture and society can replicate the role of the state. Based on research from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council¡¦s Connected Communities programme and with a unique set of case studies drawing on artistic and cultural community work, the book will appeal to scholars and students in geography, urban studies, planning, sociology, law and art as well as policy makers and community workers. |
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Evaluation of Innovative Land Tools in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Paul van Asperen/ 9781614994435/ Price:EUR 65.00
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Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to formalize land tenure. It is envisaged that tenure security for land holders will increase and in turn contribute to poverty reduction.
This study evaluates such tools in three peri-urban areas in Lusaka (Zambia), Oshakati (Namibia) and Gaborone (Botswana), with a focus on the perspective of the land holders. The author concludes that the tools are to some extent pro-poor, and makes recommendations for further improvements. These innovative land tools are also considered a necessary addition to conventional and administration tools.
This study makes valuable reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners within the land administration domain and related disciplines. |
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| SC09-439 |
Hearing the Voices of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities: Inclusive Community Development. |
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Ryder, Andrew/ 9781447313571/ Price:GBP 28.99
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Over the past decade, interest in Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) has risen up the political and media agendas, but they remain relatively unknown. This topical book is the first to chart the history and contemporary developments in GRT community activism, and the community and voluntary organisations and coalitions which support it. Underpinned by radical community development and equality theories, it describes the communities' struggle for rights against a backdrop of intense intersectional discrimination across Europe, and critiques the ambivalent role of community development in fostering these campaigns. Much of it co-written by community activists, it is a vehicle for otherwise marginalised voices, and an essential resource and inspiration for practitioners, lecturers, researchers and members of GRT communities. |
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| SC09-439 |
Sustainable London?: The Future of a Global City. |
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Imrie, Rob/ 9781447310600/ Price:GBP 31.99
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How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status? This exciting book explores the rise of sustainable development policies in London. Sustainable development discourse has permeated different policy fields, including transport, housing, property development and education. Here, international authors highlight the uneven impacts and effects of these policies, including the creation of new social inequalities and extending and deepening existing ones, and seek to move debates towards a reconsideration of previous interpretations of sustainability which balanced market and social interests in the public good. The book is essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies. |
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Community Action and Planning: Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes. |
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Gallent, Nick/ 9781447315162/ Price:GBP 79.99
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With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy. This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille. It will be a valuable resource for academic researchers and for postgraduate students on social policy, planning and community development courses. |
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Rebuilding Britain: Planning for a Better Future. |
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Ellis, Hugh/ 9781447317593/ Price:GBP 18.99
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Britain faces extraordinary challenges, from climate change to growing equality and global economics, but as a nation has no plan for the future. This unique book asks a simple question: how it can organise itself, not just for survival, but to build a fairer and sustainable society? The arguments refer to the high ambitions of those who pioneered the planning movement and campaigned for a clear set of progressive values, but whose drive for Utopia has now been forgotten.. The book takes a distinctive approach to exploring the value to society of social town planning and offers a doorway for how planning both morally and practically can help to meet key challenges of the 21st century. It challenges the widely held view that it¡¦s impossible to achieve a better future by suggesting that there is real choice in how society develops and points to contemporary examples of Utopia. This accessible book makes essential reading for students in the built environment and the wider social sciences who have an interest in UK and European examples of sustainable communities. |
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The Collaborating Planner?: Practitioners in the Neoliberal Age. |
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Clifford, Ben/ 9781447305101/ Price:GBP 35.99
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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 within academia, few have empirically explored how these changes are manifesting themselves in planning practice. This book aims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working in local authorities across Great Britain. After setting out the reform context, successive chapters then map responses across the profession to the implementation of spatial planning, to targets, to public participation and to the idea of a 'customer-focused' planning, and to attempts to change the culture of planning. Each chapter outlines the reaction by the profession to reforms promoted by successive central and devolved governments over the last decade, before considering the broader issues of what this tells us about how modernisation is rolled-out by frontline public servants. This accessible book fills a gap in the market and makes ideal reading for students and researchers interested in the UK planning system. |
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| SC09-438 |
Cities and Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism. |
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Paddison, Ronan/ 9781848601109/ Price:GBP 42.99
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The Transport Debate. |
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Shaw, Jon/ 9781847428561/ Price:GBP 17.99
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At a time when transport issues are high on the political agenda and sustainability concerns widely debated, there is a need for an accessible look at the policy issues, suitable for non-specialists. This book is a highly readable introduction to the transport debate from two experts in the field. The authors celebrate the advantages of a modern transport system, but argue that years of poorly conceived and executed transport policy have resulted in Britain¡¦s transport system being far worse than it should be. They show that a substandard transport system creates economic, social and environmental costs, but demonstrate how these can be addressed through affordable and politically deliverable changes. Using a refreshingly novel approach, Shaw and Docherty use the familiar idea of the journey as the basis for their discussion. The book follows members of the Smith family as they uncover a wide array of transport issues, including why the problems we all encounter as we travel around actually come about; which policy trade-offs were responsible for creating them in the first place; what impacts we all have to suffer as a result; and what we can do to fix them. This lively and engaging approach will make the book ideal for a wide readership. |
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| SC09-430 |
Affordable and Social Housing: Policy and Practice. |
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Reeves, Paul/ 9780415628563/ Price:GBP 49.99
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Leading the Inclusive City: Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet. |
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Hambleton, Robin/ 9781447304975/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future in accordance with progressive values ¡V advancing social justice, promoting care for the environment and bolstering community empowerment. This international and comparative book, written by an experienced author, shows how inspirational civic leaders are making a major difference in cities across the world. The analysis provides practical lessons for local leaders and a significant contribution to thinking on public service innovation for anyone who wants to change urban society for the better. |
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Hearing the Voices of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities: Inclusive Community Development. |
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Ryder, Andrew/ 9781447313564/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Over the past decade, interest in Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT) has risen up the political and media agendas, but they remain relatively unknown. This topical book is the first to chart the history and contemporary developments in GRT community activism, and the community and voluntary organisations and coalitions which support it. Underpinned by radical community development and equality theories, it describes the communities' struggle for rights against a backdrop of intense intersectional discrimination across Europe, and critiques the ambivalent role of community development in fostering these campaigns. Much of it co-written by community activists, it is a vehicle for otherwise marginalised voices, and an essential resource and inspiration for practitioners, lecturers, researchers and members of GRT communities. |
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| SC09-432 |
Neighbourhood Planning: Communities, Networks and Governance. |
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Gallent, Nick/ 9781447300076/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Neighbourhood planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits. From the recent experience of drawing up parish plans, and attempts to connect these to formal policy frameworks, it identifies lessons for future planning at the neighbourhood scale. It is not a manual on community planning practice, nor does it provide a formula for producing parish or neighbourhood plans. But in the context of the latest 'localism' agenda in England it, first, examines the potential contribution of neighbourhood planning to building a 'collaborative democracy' and, second, asks how much movement towards genuine local partnership, and consensus around development decisions, can be achieved through the rescaling of 'statutory' planning as opposed to expending greater effort locally on building stronger relationships, and generating trust, between 'people and planning' |
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Promoting Walking and Cycling: New Perspectives on Sustainable Travel. |
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Pooley, Colin/ 9781447310082/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Promoting walking and cycling proposes solutions to one of the most pressing problems in contemporary British transport planning. The need to develop more sustainable urban mobility lies at the heart of energy and environmental policies and has major implications for the planning of cities and for the structure of economy and society. However, most people feel either unable or unwilling to incorporate travel on foot or by bike into their everyday journeys. This book uses innovative quantitative and qualitative research methods to examine in depth, and in an international and historical context, why so many people fail to travel in ways that are deemed by most to be desirable. It proposes evidence-based policy solutions that could increase levels of walking and cycling substantially. This book is essential reading for planners and policy makers developing and implementing transport policies at both national and local levels, plus researchers and students in the field of mobility, transport, sustainability and urban planning. |
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| SC09-431 |
The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence. |
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Rydin, Yvonne/ 9781447308409/ Price:GBP 23.99
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For the past half a century, the planning system has operated on the basis of a growth-dependence paradigm. It has been based on market-led urban development and sought to provide community benefits from a share of development profits. However, we don¡¦t live in a world where growth can be taken for granted and we are more aware of the implications for well-being and sustainability. This timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm. It considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environment. In each case it spells out the role that a reformed planning system could play establishing a new agenda for planning. The book will be of relevance to planning students, planning professionals and planning academics, as well as urban policy specialists more generally. |
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| SC09-431 |
The Collaborating Planner?: Practitioners in the Neoliberal Age. |
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Clifford, Ben/ 9781447305118/ Price:GBP 85.99
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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 within academia, few have empirically explored how these changes are manifesting themselves in planning practice. This new book aims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working in local authorities across Great Britain. After setting out the reform context, successive chapters then map responses across the profession to the implementation of spatial planning, to targets, to public participation and to the idea of a 'customer-focused' planning, and to attempts to change the culture of the planning. Each chapter outlines the reaction by the profession to reforms promoted by successive central and devolved governments over the last decade, before considering the broader issues of what this tells us about how modernisation is rolled-out by frontline public servants. This accessible book fills a gap in the market and makes ideal reading for students and researchers interested in the UK planning system. |
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| SC09-431 |
Regenerating Deprived Urban Areas: A Cross-National Analysis of Area-based Initiatives. |
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Hohmann, Rene P./ 9781447310785/ Price:GBP 85.99
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In the face of continuing challenges of urban decline, an increasing local policy activism can be observed in a number of European countries. The implementation of area-based initiatives (ABIs) for deprived urban areas, such as The ¡¥New Deal for Communities¡¦ in England and the ¡¥Social City Programme¡¦ in Germany, are examples of these New Localism(s). ABIs can be seen as test-beds for new forms of urban governance seeking to foster an active participation of residents and the Voluntary Sector. Based upon a comparative research in two cities, Bristol in England and Duisburg in Germany, this book is the first to cross-nationally compare the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany. It evaluates the impacts of these New Localism(s) on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. Using a rich data-set and applying a hands-on methodology it applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the field of urban regeneration and planning. |
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Response of Piled Buildings to the Construction of Deep Excavations. |
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Korff, Many/ 9781614992738/ Price:EUR 80.00
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This book presents the results of an extensive research project conducted at the University of Cambridge, in cooperation with the Netherlands Centre of Underground Construction (COB) and Deltares, the Dutch Institute for water, subsurface and infrastructure issues. The study gained insight into mechanisms of soil-structure interaction for piled buildings adjacent to deep excavations and resulted in suggestions for designing and monitoring deep excavations in urban areas with soft soil conditions. Monitoring data of the construction of three deep excavations for the North¡VSouth metro line in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have been used to validate the methods described. |
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Large Housing Estates: Ideas, Rise, Fall and Recovery: The Bijlmermeer and beyond. |
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Wassenberg, Frank/ 9781614992318/ Price:EUR 65.00
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Large housing estates: for some people these three words symbolise all that is wrong in urban planning. Large is wrong, because many people prefer a living surrounding that reflects the human scale. Housing as a single function is wrong, because mixed areas are livelier. And estates are wrong, as these refer to top-down planned areas which the residents themselves have no say in. |
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The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence. |
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Rydin, Yvonne/ 9781447308416/ Price:GBP 79.99
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For the past half a century, the planning system has operated on the basis of a growth-dependence paradigm. It has been based on market-led urban development and sought to provide community benefits from a share of development profits. However, we don¡¦t live in a world where growth can be taken for granted and we are more aware of the implications for well-being and sustainability. This timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm. It considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environment. In each case it spells out the role that a reformed planning system could play establishing a new agenda for planning. The book will be of relevance to planning students, planning professionals and planning academics, as well as urban policy specialists more generally. |
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Promoting Walking and Cycling: New Perspectives on Sustainable Travel. |
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Pooley, Colin/ 9781447310075/ Price:GBP 85.99
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In the face of continuing challenges of urban decline, an increasing local policy activism can be observed in a number of European countries. The implementation of area-based initiatives (ABIs) for deprived urban areas, such as The ¡¥New Deal for Communities¡¦ in England and the ¡¥Social City Programme¡¦ in Germany, are examples of these New Localism(s). ABIs can be seen as test-beds for new forms of urban governance seeking to foster an active participation of residents and the Voluntary Sector. Based upon a comparative research in two cities, Bristol in England and Duisburg in Germany, this book is the first to cross-nationally compare the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany. It evaluates the impacts of these New Localism(s) on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. Using a rich data-set and applying a hands-on methodology it applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the field of urban regeneration and planning. |
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Neighbourhood Planning: Communities, Networks and Governance. |
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Gallent, Nick/ 9781447300069/ Price:GBP 85.99
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Neighbourhood planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits. From the recent experience of drawing up parish plans, and attempts to connect these to formal policy frameworks, it identifies lessons for future planning at the neighbourhood scale. It is not a manual on community planning practice, nor does it provide a formula for producing parish or neighbourhood plans. But in the context of the latest 'localism' agenda in England it, first, examines the potential contribution of neighbourhood planning to building a 'collaborative democracy' and, second, asks how much movement towards genuine local partnership, and consensus around development decisions, can be achieved through the rescaling of 'statutory' planning as opposed to expending greater effort locally on building stronger relationships, and generating trust, between 'people and planning' |
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Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China: Hong Kong in Global Context. |
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Harris, Paul G./ 9781447305071/ Price:GBP 28.99
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Drawing on practices and theories of sustainability, Environmental policy and sustainable development in China explores the prospects for achieving environmentally benign economic and social development in China and beyond. Using the Chinese 'world city' of Hong Kong as a backdrop and case study, it introduces major conceptions of sustainability, describes historical and political contexts for environmental policymaking, and analyses key challenges related to sustainable development, including air pollution, water quality, waste, transport and climate change. The book will be a valuable and unique resource for students, teachers and readers interested in environmental policy, sustainable development and ecological governance, especially in China and Hong Kong. |
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The Future of Sustainable Cities: Critical Reflections. |
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Flint, John/ 9781847426666/ Price:GBP 29.99
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This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of urban planning, including housing, transport, and the environment, and map out core areas for future research. |
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Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning. |
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Beatley, Timothy/ 9781597267151/ Price:US$ 37.00
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Balanceren tussen Uitvoering en Bewuste Afwijking van Beleid. |
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Dankert, Ritske/ 9789051995275/ Price:EUR 80.00
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In hun strategisch voorraadbeleid beschrijven woningcorporaties welke aanpassingen ze in hun woningbezit willen doorvoeren. Tegelijkertijd kan het in de praktijk soms verstandig zijn dat zij van hun beleid afwijken, bijvoorbeeld omdat er nieuwe inzichten zijn, of omdat er beren op de weg komen die je beter kunt mijden. In dit boek wordt ingegaan op de vraag hoe het implementatieproces van strategisch voorraadbeleid verloopt. Het bevat uitgebreide casestudies, uitgevoerd bij vier woningcorporaties, waarin meerdere uitvoeringsprojecten van begin tot eind zijn gereconstrueerd. Daarbij is in beeld gebracht welke middelen corporaties gebruiken om beleid en uitvoering met elkaar te verbinden. Ook is gezocht naar de balans tussen enerzijds het uitvoeren van voorgenomen beleid en anderzijds het bewust afwijken van voorgenomen beleid op basis van nieuwe ontwikkelingen en veranderende inzichten. De belangrijkste uitkomsten van deze studie komen samen in een balansmodel, waarmee gereflecteerd kan worden op implementatieprocessen bij woningcorporaties. |
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Housing Wealth in Retirement Strategies: Towards Understanding and New Hypotheses. |
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Toussaint, Janneke/ 9781607507802/ Price:EUR 65.00
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What is the current role of housing wealth in household retirement strategies across the European Union member states, and could this role be extended? This question is often raised by researchers and policymakers as governments search for ways to cut pensions expenditure. Owner-occupation could potentially be part of a solution as the retired are often rich in terms of housing wealth. The existing theory shows that owning one's own home can be regarded as a form of pension: once the mortgage has been repaid, housing expenses are substantially lower and housing wealth can also be cashed in, either by selling or using equity release schemes. However, converting housing assets into cash is a much less common strategy than expected. This book contributes to existing knowledge by relating household strategies to broader national contexts. The countries included in the study are Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and United Kingdom, while the Netherlands is the subject of particular attention. The study suggests that owner-occupation is not the clear-cut solution that governments might have hoped for. |
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On Measuring and Explaining Neighbourhood Succes: A Behavioural Economic Approach. |
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Adriaanse, Carlinde/ 9781607507864/ Price:EUR 45.00
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This study combines qualitative and quantitative research methods to explain which factors contribute to a problem-free or problematic functioning of neighbourhoods in general and especially of Dutch neighbourhoods that were built in the first years after World War II. An important part of the book is about the development of measuring instruments. Special attention is given to the development of a risk scale that offers researchers and policymakers the opportunity to distinguish on a metric level between problematic and successful neighbourhoods. This book brings together key insights from urban studies and central elements of Behavioural Game Theory. The author applies the notions of strong reciprocity and altruistic punishment in Prisoner¡¦s Dilemmas and Assurance Games. With these notions she describes and explains the interdependent choices that residents make when they act as producers and maintainers of the social climate of a problem-free early post-World War II neighbourhood. |
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Bicycle Commuting. |
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Heinen, Eva/ 9781607507710/ Price:EUR 65.00
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Cycling is cheaper, healthier and, in urban environments, often faster than other modes of transport . Nevertheless, many individuals do not cycle even for short distances . This publication aims to explain why commuters differ in their decisions as to whether or not to cycle. Results indicate that the individual (day-to-day) choice to commute by bicycle is affected by personal attitudes towards cycling to work, social norms, the work situation, weather conditions and trip characteristics. In addition, the book provides evidence that different groups of bicycle commuters exist: non-cyclists, part-time cyclists and full-time cyclists. The mode choice of individuals within these groups depends partly on a number of different factors. Non-cyclists seem not to cycle because they consider it impractical, either due to the distance involved, their need to transport goods, the need for a car during office hours or a negative subjective norm. The decision to cycle among part-time or full-time cyclists is also affected by these factors, but additional factors can be identified. Finally, the day-to-day choice to cycle is based on work characteristics, weather conditions and trip characteristics. Part-time cyclists who cycle only occasionally are encouraged by pleasant weather conditions, while frequent cyclists are found to be discouraged by more practical barriers, such as where they need to work on a particular day. |
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Urban Reflections: Narratives of Place, Planning and Change. |
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Tewdwr-Jones, Mark/ 9781847428417/ Price:GBP 31.99
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Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book offers a fresh incisive story of urban change, one that evokes both real and imagined perspectives of places and planning, and questions what role and purpose urban planning serves in the 21st century. It will interest urban and architectural historians, planners, geographers and all concerned with understanding urban planning and attitudes toward the contemporary city. |
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The Purpose of Planning: Creating Sustainable Towns and Cities. |
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Rydin, Yvonne/ 9781847424303/ Price:GBP 17.99
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Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with developers working on multi-million pound schemes and the local communities that will be affected by such schemes. And throughout, they have to work in the public interest, delivering on broad policy goals and meeting the needs of vulnerable communities. This book is about the way that the planning system works, what it can do, what it cannot do and how it should evolve to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It looks at a range of issues to unlock the purpose of planning by being positive about the role of planning while remaining realistic about its achievements and potential. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book will be essential reading for students studying planning in a variety of disciplines and practitioners engaging with the planning system. |
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Understanding the Environment and Social Policy. |
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Fitzpatrick, Tony/ 9781847423801/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Bringing together leading experts, this textbook explores the key social, political, economic and moral challenges that environmental problems pose for social policy in a global context. Combining theory and practice with an interdisciplinary approach, the book reviews the current strategies and policies and provides a critique of proposed future developments in the field. Understanding the environment and social policy guides the reader through the subject in an accessible way using chapter summaries, further reading, recommended webpages, a glossary and questions for discussion. Providing a much-needed overview, the book will be invaluable reading for students, teachers, activists, practitioners and policymakers. |
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The Community Development Reader: History, Themes And Issues. |
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Craig, Gary/ 9781847427052/ Price:GBP 85.99
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Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community development careers, for activists, and for all those teaching, training and practising community development. |
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The Urban Code of China. |
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Hassenpflug, Dieter/ 9783034605724/ Price:EUR 37.95
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The Rural Housing Question: Community and Planning in Britain's Countrysides. |
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Satsangi, Madhu/ 9781847423849/ Price:GBP 31.99
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For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside. |
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Phoenix Cities: The Fall and Rise of Great Industrial Cities. |
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Power, Anne/ 9781847426833/ Price:GBP 37.99
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'Weak market cities' across European and America, or 'core cities' as they were in their heyday, went from being 'industrial giants' dominating their national, and eventually the global, economy, to being 'devastation zones'. In a single generation three quarters of all manufacturing jobs disappeared, leaving dislocated, impoverished communities, run down city centres and a massive population exodus.So how did Europeans react? And how different was their response from America's? This book looks closely at the recovery trajectories of seven European cities from very different regions of the EU. Their dramatic decline, intense recovery efforts and actual progress on the ground underline the significance of public underpinning in times of crisis. Innovative enterprises, new-style city leadership, special neighbourhood programmes and skills development are all explored. The American experience, where cities were largely left 'to their own devices', produced a slower, more uncertain recovery trajectory. This book will provide much that is original and promising to all those wanting to understand the ground-level realities of urban change and progress. |
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Community Development and Civil Society. |
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Henderson, Paul/ 9781861349705/ Price:GBP 79.99
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To what extent are the ideas and practice of community development across Europe similar? Community Development and Civil Society explores this question with special reference to the UK and Hungary and shows how community development connects powerfully with civil society, a concept that today has global significance.Paul Henderson and Ilona Vercseg argue that community development is both a profession and a social movement and is relevant to a wide range of issues.They interweave case studies with discussion of principles and theory.The book's critical and accessible approach will appeal especially to students and practitioners. |
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The Rural Housing Question: Community and Planning in Britain's Countrysides. |
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Bevan, Mark/ 9781847423856/ Price:GBP 79.99
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For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside. |
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An Introduction to Community Development. |
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Phillips, Rhonda/ 9780415773843/ Price:GBP 105.00
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Bridging the Gap Between Social and Market Rented Housing in Six European Countries? |
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Haffner, Marietta/ 9781607500353/ Price:EUR 65.00
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The once clear demarcation of funding and roles of the social and market rental sectors seems to have become blurred in a number of European countries. Social renting is no longer provided only by non-profit organisations. The central issue in this book is the extent to which a gap can be identified between the social and market rental sectors in six countries in north-west Europe (England, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands).
The gap depends on similarities and differences between the two rental sectors. From an empirical viewpoint it conveys who provides what in rental housing, the government policies that are relevant and the outcomes that are achieved. From a theoretical point of view the gap is about the extent to which accommodation in the two sectors can be considered as substitutes by consumers and whether landlords are rivals in attracting tenants |
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Planning for Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport. |
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Levinson, David M./ 9780415774901/ Price:GBP 125.00
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Changing Neighbourhoods: Lessons from the JRF Neighbourhood Programme. |
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Taylor, Marilyn/ 9781861349774/ Price:GBP 17.99
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This report shares the experience of a four-year programme that was set up to explore how neighbourhood activity could best be supported. It follows the progress of twenty very different neighbourhood organisations across three countries to explore the opportunities and challenges of neighbourhood renewal from a community perspective. As well as testing out 'light touch' ways of offering support to community organisations, it explores how different policies are working out on the ground, what it is realistic to expect of local residents and what needs to happen at agency level in order to address the 'implementation gap'. |
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London Voices, London Lives: Tales from a Working Capital. |
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Hall, Peter/ 9781861349835/ Price:GBP 26.99
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London Voices, London Lives addresses a question of great current importance for urban policy: what kind of a place is London in the early 21st century, and how does it differ significantly - economically, socially, culturally, in quality of life - from other parts of urban Britain? It addresses these questions in a unique way: over one hundred ordinary Londoners, interviewed in their homes in eight areas across London and the surrounding region, provide their own answers in their own voices. |
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Rediscovering Mixed-Use Streets: The Contribution of Local High Streets to Sustainable Communities. |
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Jones, Peter/ 9781861349859/ Price:GBP 16.99
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Local urban high streets have frequently suffered from neglect in comparison to town centres and out-of-town retail. Yet they have the potential to meet contemporary policy aspirations with regard to sustainability, social inclusion and place making. Rediscovering mixed-use streets is the first in-depth investigation of local mixed-use high streets. Drawing on case-studies in three different locations in England, the report provides a wealth of data and findings produced from a variety of sources, both quantitative and qualitative. |
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Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces. |
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Power, Anne/ 9781861346599/ Price:GBP 72.99
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Through a close look at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, the book explores the origins of Britain's acute urban decline and sprawling exodus; the reasons why 'one size doesn't fit all' in cities of the future and the potential for smart growth, mixed communities and sustainable cities. Based on live examples and hands-on experience, this extremely accessible book offers a unique 'insider' perspective on policy making and practical impacts. It will attract policymakers in cities and government as well as students, regeneration bodies, community organisations and environmental specialists. |
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Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces. |
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Power, Anne/ 9781861346582/ Price:GBP 25.99
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This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw; they are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. How did our major cities become so divided? How do they respond to housing and neighbourhood decay?
Jigsaw Cities examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second largest city, as a model of pioneering urban order and as a victim of brutal Modernist planning. |
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Building Sustainable Communities: Spatial policy and Labour Mobility in Post-War Britain. |
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Raco, Mike/ 9781861347442/ Price:GBP 77.99
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This book uses historical and contemporary materials to document the ways in which policy-makers, in different eras, have sought to use state powers and regulations to create better, more balanced, and sustainable communities and citizens. |
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Building Sustainable Communities: Spatial Policy and Labour Mobility in Post-War Britain. |
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Raco, Mike/ 9781861347435/ Price:GBP 31.99
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Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers. |
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Leitner, Helga/ 9781593853204/ Price:US$ 40.00
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Neoliberalism's "market revolution"--realized through practices like privatization, deregulation, fiscal devolution, and workfare programs--has had a transformative effect on contemporary cities. The consequences of market-oriented politics for urban life have been widely studied, but less attention has been given to how grassroots groups, nongovernmental organizations, and progressive city administrations are fighting back. In case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives, this book examines how struggles around such issues as affordable housing, public services and space, neighborhood sustainability, living wages, workers' rights, fair trade, and democratic governance are reshaping urban political geographies in North America and around the world. |
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Spatial Planning Systems in Western Europe: An Overview. |
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Larsson, Gerhard/ 9781586036560/ Price:EUR 72.00
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A general trend in our modern society is a growing complexity. It is therefore logical that in most countries there has been a definite tendency to give weight to issues of adapting also the physical space to this complexity and to find methods to do this in an efficient way, giving satisfactory use of land and other natural resources. During the twentieth century we have seen a very active development of legal instruments for this purpose, aimed at steering spatial planning and plan implementation according to the objectives and policies chosen. This book tries to present basic information of how different countries within the chosen area have tried to solve the problem of establishing suitable systems of steering spatial development by means of planning and implementation measures. For this purpose summary descriptions of the connected formal regulations in each country are given in an appendix while a comparative presentation and discussion forms the main text. This will give the interested reader an overview of the current systems in Western Europe, how they have influenced each other but still in many parts differ from each other. |
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The City Cultures Reader. |
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Miles, Malcolm/ 9780415302456/ Price:GBP 54.99
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City Matters: Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance. |
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Boddy, Martin/ 9781861344441/ Price:GBP 27.99
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This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme'. Leading experts present the findings of this wide-ranging programme organised around themes of competitiveness, social cohesion and the role of policy and governance. |
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City matters: Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance. |
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Boddy, Martin/ 9781861344458/ Price:GBP 72.99
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This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme'. Leading experts present the findings of this wide-ranging programme organised around themes of competitiveness, social cohesion and the role of policy and governance.
The book:
¡P develops our understanding of key processes, issues and concepts critical to cities and urban change;
¡P examines a large body of evidence on a wide range of policy issues at the heart of current debates about the performance of cities and the prospects for urban renaissance.
City matters is essential reading for all policy makers, practitioners, analysts and academics with an interest or involvement in urban issues. |
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Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity. |
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Frank, Lawrence D./ 9781559639170/ Price:US$ 37.00
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Hauptstadt Berlin Parlamentsviertel Im Spreebogen. |
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Bauwelt/ 9783764328924/ Price:SFR 118.00
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