Renewing Urban Communities

Mark Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Ireland is now an urban society, and both parts of the island have experienced rapid urban-generated growth and new patterns of development in recent ... Lees meer

Growth Management and Public Land Acquisition

Christopher Coutts

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to ... Lees meer

Parallel Patterns of Shrinking Cities and Urban Growth

Rocky Piro

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Focussing particularly on urban fringe and rural areas, this book addresses the parallel phenomena of growth and decline. In doing so, it not only bro... Lees meer

Smart Methods for Environmental Externalities

Gert De Roo, Jelger Visser

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• This book discusses the innovative research instruments developed and employed in the Netherlands, examining their strengths and weaknesses and compar... Lees meer

Instruments of Land Policy

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights s... Lees meer

Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners. However, the question of what can planners contribute to the advancement of such notions... Lees meer

Green Oslo

Per Gunnar Røe

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to creat... Lees meer

Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States

Chang-Hee Christine Bae

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Urban sprawl has become one of the key planning issues. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book compares how urban sprawl has develope... Lees meer

Plan-Making for Sustainability

Neil J Ericksen, Philip R Berke, Jennifer E Dixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Around the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innov... Lees meer

How Cities Will Save the World

Ray Brescia, John Travis Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests oth... Lees meer

Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement

Gert De Roo

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning an... Lees meer

Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-First Century

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twent... Lees meer

Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Notions of sustainability were originally advanced at supra-national level and, then, at local level. However, less attention has been given to the in... Lees meer

Plan-Making for Sustainability

Neil J Ericksen, Philip R Berke, Jennifer E Dixon

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Around the introduction of Agenda 21 at Rio in 1991, some countries like the Netherlands and New Zealand were already leading the way with quite innov... Lees meer

Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States

Chang-Hee Christine Bae

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies. The USA is know... Lees meer

The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program

David A Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series o... Lees meer

Bicycle Urbanism

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health,... Lees meer

Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized World

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• 'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe. How it is defined, implemented and measured at the local level... Lees meer

Conflict and Change in Australia's Peri-Urban Landscapes

Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, Marco Amati

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space ext... Lees meer

Regulating Coastal Zones

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad r... Lees meer

Urban Environmental Planning

Gert De Roo

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and m... Lees meer

Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the ways in which the concept 'resilience' has been addr... Lees meer

Towards Sustainable Cities

Peter J Marcotullio

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume b... Lees meer

How Cities Will Save the World

Ray Brescia, John Travis Marshall

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Planning and Environment
• Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests oth... Lees meer