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Book Taming Megalopolis  What is and what could be

Download or read book Taming Megalopolis What is and what could be written by Hanford Wentworth Eldredge and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Taming Megalopolis  How to manage an urbanized world

Download or read book Taming Megalopolis How to manage an urbanized world written by Hanford Wentworth Eldredge and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building Cities that Work

Download or read book Building Cities that Work written by Edmund P. Fowler and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1945, North Americans have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on urban development, literally transforming the landscape of the continent. This development has been disastrous, Edmund Fowler maintains, because it is inordinately expensive, destructive of the environment, and disruptive of healthy social life and authentic politics. Revealing the connections between our basic cultural beliefs and why we build the way we do, he stresses that to build cities that work we must become aware of how our personal choices contribute to the form of the built environment.

Book The City

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan S. Berger
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN : 9780697075550
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book The City written by Alan S. Berger and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book User Requirements in the Home

Download or read book User Requirements in the Home written by Arthur I. Rubin and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Planning Theory

Download or read book Planning Theory written by Robert Burchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at work in a board meeting and coping with the realities of fund raising, political realities, and the like, can find little guidance in the theory of the trade. The issues of poverty groups, whether rural or urban, the provision of services, and the packaging of them are seemingly insuperable. The sheer frustration in the inability to deliver, which so many planners feel, can result in considerable impatience and a questioning of the relevance of theory.The editors argue that this state of affairs, though understandable, is unacceptable. While short-range meliorismwithout sense of perspective may be good for the practitioner's individual psyche, the cost may be borne by the long-run best interests of the groups to be served. The risks of a lack of perspective and the experiences generated by this phenomenon are too serious in their implications to permit the process to continue.In this new age of anxiety it is essential for both planners and theorists to understand their roles as well as provide guidance in shaping them. Burchell and Sternlieb have thus gathered here a variety of individuals, all of whom in their separate and distinct fashions are seasoned, both in practice and in theory. The book is divided into five sections: Physical Planning in Change, Social Planning in Change, Public Policy Planning in Change, Economic Planning in Change, and a final section detailing the roles of planners and who they are. These shared puzzlements and insights will prove useful to all practitioners and theorists in the planning field.

Book Fractured Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian D. Jacobs
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-09-02
  • ISBN : 1134898487
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Fractured Cities written by Brian D. Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-American cities face economic decline, social polarisation and racial conflict. Their fate is increasingly decided by the global actions of transnational corporations and market forces. Community groups find it difficult to gain access to the political system. Ethnic minorities strive for empowerment while indebted city governments battle to maintain basic services. Such is the urban crisis of the 1990s. Fractured Cities describes the political economy of urban change and explores the future of the city.

Book Community and community development

Download or read book Community and community development written by Allan D. Edwards and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Community and community development".

Book Governing Metropolitan Areas

Download or read book Governing Metropolitan Areas written by David K. Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingly engaged in cooperative and collaborative public policy efforts to solve problems that stretch across urban centers and their surrounding suburbs. Yet there remains scant attention in textbooks to the issues that arise in trying to address metropolitan governance. Governing Metropolitan Areas describes and analyzes structure to understand the how and why of regionalism in our global age. The book covers governmental institutions and their evolution to governance, but with a continual focus on institutions. David Hamilton provides the necessary comprehensive, in-depth description and analysis of how metropolitan areas and governments within metropolitan areas developed, efforts to restructure and combine local governments, and governance within the polycentric urban region. This second edition is a major revision to update the scholarship and current thinking on regional governance. While the text still provides background on the historical development and growth of urban areas and governments' efforts to accommodate the growth of metropolitan areas, this edition also focuses on current efforts to provide governance through cooperative and collaborative solutions. There is also now extended treatment of how regional governance outside the United States has evolved and how other countries are approaching regional governance.

Book Remaking Cities  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Remaking Cities Routledge Revivals written by Alison Ravetz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975. Always a fine balance between central control and market forces, it was challenged by strains within and between the environmental professions and protest by people dispossessed or alienated by re-shaped urban environments. Remaking Cities critiques the export of western-style planning to the developing world and reviews initiatives rooted in different understandings of ‘growth’ appearing in those years. Nearly forty years on, many of the same issues beset us, notably the depressingly familiar inner city problem, despite countless reports, funds and ‘programmes’. But now our infrastructure and services, once publicly owned, are privatised and fragmented, and local government progressively relegated. The very core of planning, development control, is being pared in a struggle to regain the ‘growth’ which led to our current crisis. This gives fresh importance to the need for new modes of creating liveable, sustainable environments, emphasised in this important work.

Book Urban and Regional Dimensions of Manpower Policy

Download or read book Urban and Regional Dimensions of Manpower Policy written by Niles M. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Neighborhood Unit

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  • Author : Tridib Banerjee
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-06-29
  • ISBN : 1475794185
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Neighborhood Unit written by Tridib Banerjee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the research on which this book is based was funded almost a decade ago by separate grants from two different agencies of the U. S. Public Health Service, of the then still consolidated Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The first grant was from the Bureau of Community Environmental Management (Public Health Service Research Grant J-RO J EM 0049-02), and the second from the Center for Studies of Metropolitan Problems of the National Institute of Mental Health (Public Health Service Grant ROJ MH 24904-02). These separate grants were necessary because of budget cuts that truncated our original effort. We were fortunate to receive subsequent assistance from NIMH to conclude the research, as it is doubtful that a project of the scope and intent of our effort--even as completed in abbreviated form-will be funded in the 1980s. The original intent of this project, as formulated by our colleagues Ira Robinson and Alan Kreditor, and as conceptualized earlier by their predeces sors-members of an advisory committee of planners and social scientists ap pointed by the American Public Health Association (APHA)-was to rewrite Planning the Neighborhood, APHA's recommended standards for residential design. In particular, it was proposed that the new study take the point of view of the user in terms of residential standards. Hitherto, the private sector had domi nated these considerations (i. e. , the designer's predilections, the requirements of builders and material suppliers, and lenders' needs for mortgage security).

Book Bibliography on Housing  Building and Planning for Use of Overseas Missions of the United States Agency for International Development

Download or read book Bibliography on Housing Building and Planning for Use of Overseas Missions of the United States Agency for International Development written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Land Use Decision Methodology for Environmental Control

Download or read book A Land Use Decision Methodology for Environmental Control written by Kirk Wickersham and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book U S  Land Prices

Download or read book U S Land Prices written by Grace Smelo Milgram and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Costs of Sprawl

Download or read book The Costs of Sprawl written by Real Estate Research Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: