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  • The Politics of Mobility

    Transport Planning, the Environment and Public Policy

    by Geoff Vigar ...
    Series series Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
    Transport issues are critically embedded in everyday life. For this very reason, ways of addressing such issues are almost always hugely politically contentious, as a quick glance at local and national media will testify. Such contentiousness is growing as ever increasing mobility for many in western society has led to a critical examination of the fundamental basis by which transport issues are ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Future for Planners

    Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK

    by Ben Clifford, Susannah Gunn, Andy Inch, Abigail Schoneboom, Jason Slade, Malcolm Tait, Geoff Vigar ...
    Winner of the Royal Town Planning Institute Patsy Healey Award for Academic Excellence 2025.Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about urban development in a unified public interest. Nearly half of UK planners are now employed in the private sector, with complex inter-relations between the sectors ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Town and Country Planning in the UK

    by Barry Cullingworth, Simin Davoudi, David Webb, Geoff Vigar, John Pendlebury, Tim Townshend, Menelaos Gkartzios, Trevor Hart, Vincent Nadin ...
    Town and Country Planning in the UK provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions, legislation, policies, processes and practices. This 16th edition has been substantially revised and re-organised to provide an up-to-date overview of the planning systems in the four nations of the UK, supported by analyses, interpretations, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • What Town Planners Do

    Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies

    by Abigail Schoneboom, Jason Slade, Malcolm Tait, Geoff Vigar ...
    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 ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The New Spatial Planning

    Territorial Management with Soft Spaces and Fuzzy Boundaries

    by Graham Haughton, Philip Allmendinger, David Counsell, Geoff Vigar ...
    Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is a fairly rapidly evolving maturity and sophistication in how strategies are developed and produced. Crucially, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Regional Planning

    by John Glasson, Tim Marshall ...
    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    Regional Planning provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, it provides students and practitioners with a descriptive and analytical foundation for understanding this rapidly changing area of planning.The book includes four main sections covering:the context and history of regional ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Redefining Public Sector Unionism

    UNISON and the Future of Trade Unions

    Edited by Mike Terry ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    This book brings together contributions from both expert academics and leading figures of UNISON in an in-depth analysis of the union's achievements to date. As the largest and most influential trade union in the public sector, UNISON is an ideal case-study for the possible future development of UK unions in the twenty first century. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Law and Governance

    by N. Douglas Lewis ...
    This book describes the nature of these changes and identifies the accountability gaps which have inevitably opened up in the absence of a written constitution or a considered Administrative Procedure Act. ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jeremy Moon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Corporate social responsibility has been defined as 'the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society'. Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) just window dressing or is it a contradiction in terms? In this Very Short Introduction, Jeremy Moon shows that CSR holds much more value than it first appears, and shows how it has come of age in recent years. Illustrating the sorts of CSR ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Working Class

    How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes

    by Claire Ainsley ...
    Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Human Resource Management in Context

    Insights, Strategy and Solutions

    by David Farnham ...
    HR functions within both internal and external contexts. The understanding of both contexts is crucial for comprehending how and why they drive HR strategies and practices in organizations, as well as the rules and structures within which they work. Built around five major themes which impact upon the HR function, and mapping to the CIPD Level 7 Advanced module of the same name, Human Resource ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD