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  • A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia

    Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change

    Edited by Patrick T. Hurley, Laura E. Taylor ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that is no longer simply rural or only tied to the economies of global resources (e.g., mining, forestry, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Planning Australia

    An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning

    by Susan Thompson, Paul Maginn ...
    Planning Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today. Incorporating contemporary theory and practice, it contextualises planning in terms of its theoretical, ideological and professional foundations. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, underpinned by the principles of ... Read more

    $97.59 USD

  • Small Change

    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    by Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Governing Sustainable Cities

    by Bob Evans, Marko Joas, Susan Sundback, Kate Theobald ...
    Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban areas. The economic, social and environmental challenges posed by urbanization on such a large scale ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Landscape Modelling

    Geographical Space, Transformation and Future Scenarios

    Edited by Jiří Anděl, Ivan Bičík, Petr Dostál, Zdeněk Lipský, Siamak G. Shahneshin ...
    Series Book 8 - Urban and Landscape Perspectives
    Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include the twin imperatives of stabilizing damaged ecosystems on the one hand, and finding effective ways to use the landscape on the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Groundwater in the Arab Middle East

    by Wolfgang Wagner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing the hydrogeologic conditions - regional geologic developments, paleogeographic conditions, morphology, climate and paleo-climate - and the resulting hydrogeologic features: formation of aquifers, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Landscape and Power in Geographical Space as a Social-Aesthetic Construct

    by Olaf Kühne ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how they are individually updated and how these ideas affect the use and design of physical space. It also analyzes how physical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • English Planning in Crisis

    10 Steps to a Sustainable Future

    by Hugh Ellis, Kate Henderson ...
    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 ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment

    Towards a More Systematic Approach

    by Thomas B Fischer ...
    �Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer�s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of the subject will find the book essential.�Leonard Ortolano, Professor at Stanford University, USA�Fischer�s book demystifies the process and substantive analytical dimensions of SEA. Offering solidly ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

    Edited by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and productive experiences of urban life.The phrase ‘city imaging’ is often used in public discourse, but ... Read more

    $89.09 USD