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Books about Urban and Regional Planning (Social and Behavioral Sciences): Browse our selection of urban and regional planning books and buy urban and regional planning books online now...
Community Leadership and Self-Help Housing - book by Ward, P.;Chant, S. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Ward, P.;Chant, S. PAGES: pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/11/1988 ISBN Number: 0-08-036870-0... view more info and the price of this book. |
High-Technology Companies: an Examination of Their Transport Needs - book by Button, K.J. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Button, K.J. PAGES: pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/11/1988 ISBN Number: 0-08-036876-X... view more info and the price of this book. |
Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Techniques in Planning - book by Massam, B.H. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: AUTHORS: Massam, B.H. PAGES: pages PUBLISH DATE: 01/11/1988 ISBN Number: 0-08-036878-6... view more info and the price of this book. |
Development Planning and Local Economic Growth - book by Turok, I. DESCRIPTION: For more than three decades, Bracknell has been one of Britain's most rapidly expanding towns. Between 1949 and 1982 it was an officially designated New Town. The purpose of this monograph is to examine the background and nature of the development programme in Bracknell, to evaluate the... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This paper is concerned with the problems of developing policies which stimulate urban economic development without causing sub-optimal damage to the environment. It is, therefore, concerned with policies which lead to sustainable urban growth. The objective is to illustrate not only th... view more info and the price of this book. |
The Siting of Locally Unwanted Land Uses: Towards a Cooperative Approach - book by Armour, A.M. DESCRIPTION: The problems of facility siting conflicts, particularly for waste management, have become an important part of public policy. The general need for such facilities is accepted, but specific proposals are usually met with strong local opposition. The problems stem from the three interrela... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This study is in two parts: the first and larger part is entirely empirical and consists of detailed analyses of migration flows to and from South East England over the 1970s and 1980s. It draws upon two Office of Population Censuses and Surveys' data sources: the National Health Servic... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The renewal of interest in the development potential of inward investment within the less favoured regions (LFRs) has been the outcome of disenchantment with strategies based on small firm entrepreneurship. However, it is also the product of changing analysis of the positive contributio... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The creation of the "State of Autonomies", embodied in the 1978 Spanish Constitution brought to Andalucía the devolution of wide political powers and administrative functions, and with this the possibility for the newly created Junta de Andalucía to implement a development... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Since China returned to the world platform two decades ago, the literature on Chinese urbanisation has grown greatly. It is therefore high time to review the forces underpinning Chinese urbanisation. Informed by the realist philosophy and methodology, this paper is divided into two main... view more info and the price of this book. |
Meaningful Collective Choice? Public Planning and Arrow's Theorem - book by Sagera, T. DESCRIPTION: This essay is based on Kenneth Arrow's celebrated impossibility theorem stating that under a few quite reasonable assumptions, collective choice cannot be simultaneously logical and fair. The purpose here is to argue that planning procedures can reduce the likelihood that decision cycle... view more info and the price of this book. |
Applications of Neural Networks in Transportation Planning - book by Shmuelia, D. DESCRIPTION: The value of neural network analysis as a tool in transportation planning is tested on two transportation issues, one behavioural and the other physical. The behavioural case involved travel behaviour forecasting, comparing travel demand patterns of men and women in Israel, to determine... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This study compares urban planning mechanisms that operate within Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. The political economy of Hong Kong is in a state of flux. While the power of the government and the corporate interests remain largely intact, they are challenged by pro-China interests an... view more info and the price of this book. |
City Logistics - book by Taniguchi, E.;Thompson, R.G.;Yamada, Tadashi;van Duin, J.H.R. DESCRIPTION: This book presents fundamental concepts and general approaches to City Logistics. City Logistics is the process of totally optimising urban logistics activities by considering the social, environmental, economic, financial and energy impacts of urban freight movement. City Logistics ini... view more info and the price of this book. |
Property Rights Justifications for Planning and a Theory of Zoning - book by Lai, L.W.C. DESCRIPTION: In the field of planning research, the opportunities offered by the emergence of property rights economics ensuing from Ronald Coase's article 'The Problem of Social Cost' (Journal of Law and Economics, 1(3), 1960, 1-44) is yet to be exploited. Such opportunities have either been neglec... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: British cities are the site of a new form of intense competition for a scarce resource - the gap under the road. Is the road essentially a 'corridor' for moving goods, services and people, or is it a 'conduit' for the movement of energy, water, waste and telecommunications along a compl... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This paper asks two questions. First, is the implementation process of sustainable development programs indeed a top-down process, whereby countries try to implement Agenda 21 or supra-national guidelines derived from global concerns? Second, what role can planners play in promoting sus... view more info and the price of this book. |
Changing Intra-Metropolitan Accessibility in the US: Evidence from Atlanta - book by Helling, A. DESCRIPTION: The US federal government appears committed to the idea of performance measurement. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (1991), provides an opportunity to change the focus of metropolitan transportation planning and policy from fostering mobility (more travel) to increa... view more info and the price of this book. |
Spatial Aspects of Innovation Policies: Theory and Application - book by Fernandez Arufe, J.E. DESCRIPTION: This collection of nine essays examines European policy and practice in the now world-wide trend to develop a fusion of spatial and technology policies at the regional level. With innovation now regarded as the key to economic growth, new tools such as science cities or technology parks... view more info and the price of this book. |
Planning, the Urban System and New Forms of Inequality in Greek Cities - book by Tsoulouvisa, L. DESCRIPTION: This paper examines Greece's urban system in relationship to economic restructuring, socio-spatial inequalities and planning policies. Chapter one reviews the reasons for the recent rekindled interest of spatial analysis in cities and questions the capacity of the discourse on globalisa... view more info and the price of this book. |
Cities, Regions and Privatised Utilities - book by Marvin, S.;Graham, S.;Guy, S. DESCRIPTION: Utility networks are physically embedded in places and they also operate within a regulated environment which imposes obligations on them. Within this framework they need to demonstrate commercial success which is directly related to new management strategies that have profound implicat... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The dominance of ideology, state control and economic planning on urban planning and development in China is rapidly diminishing after economic reforms in 1978. With the declining role of state enterprises in the economy and investment in cities, the introduction of housing and land ref... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This is a study of housing supply in three urban areas in Ghana: Accra, the capital city, Kumasi, the most important provincial city, and Berekum, a small town. The sample of over 1600 households is divided into renters, recent owners, and longer established owners. The last group is di... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: This monograph examines the challenges facing major city regions in coping with dynamic processes of societal change. Particular attention is paid to the structure of metropolitan governance and the contribution of strategic spatial planning frameworks in managing urban development proc... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The concept and premises of carrying-capacity are employed as tools for the operationalization of sustainable development. Carrying-capacity of a region, comprising its supportive and assimilative capacities, is defined as the ability to produce desired outputs from a constrained resour... view more info and the price of this book. |
Divided Cities - book by Kliot, N.;Mansfeld, Y.;Kotek, J. DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Case Studies of Conflict and Territorial Organization in Divided Cities. The Essence of Division and Partition. Introduction: Basic Definitions and Theories about Partition/Division. Urban segregation in South Africa, North America as compared to partitioned divide... view more info and the price of this book. |
Sustainable Urban Growth in Peripheral Areas - book by Portnov, B.A.;Pearlmutter, D. DESCRIPTION: The monograph addresses the factors affecting the degree of sustainability exhibited by population growth in peripheral urban settlements. Development differentials between core and peripheral regions in countries of different sizes and various levels of economic development are discuss... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Previous research has suggested that standard indicators of deprivation used by central and local government in the UK are inadequately measuring perceived levels of disadvantage in rural areas. In particular, by not incorporating accessibility to, and provision of, services they neglec... view more info and the price of this book. |
Revaluing Planning - book by Gleeson, B.;Low, N. DESCRIPTION: In the last 20 years the issues forming the agenda of Australian planning have been transformed. The challenge of environmental sustainability, new definitions of democracy, a concern for gender and ethnicity issues, and the reduced role of the state in market societies have been major ... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Waste planning in the UK is confronted with new policy agendas and is under pressure to develop new policy frameworks in the emerging local plans. The changes in policy agendas are pushing waste planning to shift from total reliance on disposal of waste to landfill towards a wider range... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: Land Readjustment (LR) is a land development technique used in many countries around the world including Germany, Sweden, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. In essence it is a method whereby an irregular pattern of agricultural land holdings is re-arranged into regular building plots and equipped... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction. The Origin and Evolution of the UDC 'Experiment'. The rationale for the UDC programme. Characteristics of the three UDCs at designation. The Property Market Consequences of UDC Intervention. Reviving land and property markets. The local consequences o... view more info and the price of this book. |
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DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this article is to stimulate and inform discussion about the community role in sustainable development and to broaden our understanding of the opportunities for sustainable community development activity. It begins with an overview of sustainable development, questioning ... view more info and the price of this book. |
Property, Politics and the Neo-Liberal Revolution in Urban Scotland - book by Rogerson, R.;Boyle, M. DESCRIPTION: This paper is written in the context of current debates about the extent to which business coalitions are shaping the political agendas of the contemporary city. With a growing critique of the use of North American frameworks as a basis for the interpretation of business politics in the... view more info and the price of this book. |
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