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Planning and Urban Design Standards
The new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach students best practices and guidelines for urban planning and design. Edited from the main volume to meet the serious student's needs, this Student Edition is packed with more than 1,400 informative illustrations and includes the latest rules of thumb for designing and evaluating any land-use scheme--from street plantings to new subdivisions. Students find real help understanding all the practical information on the physical aspects of planning and urban design they are required to know, including: * P...
Project Management for Planners
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1. An Introduction to Project Management for Planners and Managers -- 1. Introduction -- Welcome -- Not New -- It's Not Just for Engineers Anymore -- Professional Development -- The Latest Fad? -- What Is Project Management? -- Review -- 2. To Managers and Supervisors -- Introduction -- Planning Staff are Self-motivators -- Beyond Motivation -- The Importance to Planning Managers -- Let Go! -- Review -- Part 2. The Process of Project Management for Planners -- 3. Initiating -- Interview -- Initiating -- Review -- 4. Planning -- Interview -- Planning -- Review -- 5. Executing -- Interview -- Executing -- Review -- 6. Controlling -- Interview -- Controlling -- Review -- 7. Closing -- Interview -- Closing -- Review -- Part 3. Case Studies and Perspectives -- 8. Case Studies -- Introduction -- Case Study #1: Saving the Everglades -- Case Study #2: The Little Town That Could -- Case Study #3: A Sub, is a Sub, is a Sub -- Case Study #4: Water, Water Everywhere -- 9. Perspectives -- Introduction -- Affirmations -- Conclusion -- Index
Social Issues in America
More than 150 key social issues confronting the United States today are covered in this eight-volume set: from abortion and adoption to capital punishment and corporate crime; from obesity and organized crime to sweatshops and xenophobia.
Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation and the Commonwealth
By 2050, an additional 2.5 billion people will be living in the world’s towns and cities, almost 50% of them in the 56 Commonwealth countries. To a significant extent, the future of the planet hangs on how cities and human settlements are managed. It is in our cities that the emissions creating climate catastrophe are stoked and where change can – and must – make a difference at scale. Food security, water, basic services, migration, shelter, jobs, environment: sustainable urbanisation is about changing direction to strive for a fairer and less environmentally damaging future. This well-illustrated book by authors from around the Commonwealth tells how the Commonwealth Association of Planners across five decades has campaigned to make a difference. It also looks ahead, scoping the urgent, practical action that is now required.
Mapping Possibility
Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating her life to pursuing social, cultural, and environmental justice through her work. In this book, Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films, which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions, both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section, and four new essays, t...
Breaking the Boundaries
Exploring the complex arena of international planning for development has until now been uniquely the privilege of influential senior western planners. This book calls into question many of their hallowed principles and much of the conventional wisdom still evident in the halls of academe. At a time of increasing enrollment of foreign students in North American planning programs, the emergence of a new voice has coincided with a growing skepticism, worldwide, about old notions of planning and development in poorer and ex-colonial countries. Now there is a need for brave innovations to reshape our understanding of the global crisis and the potential for progressive and democratic local soluti...
