Planning and Community Equity: A Component of Apa's Agenda for America's Communities
ISBN: 9781884829048 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity. Some of the 13 chapters urge planners to incorporate community equity concerns into traditional planning areas such as transportation and economic development. Others challenge planners to get more involved in social areas such as urban education and community policing. Each chapter is authored by one or more professionals with expertise in the subject at hand. A helpful resource for planners who continue to tackle the problems of inequality.
This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity. Some of the ...
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660,05 zł |
Guidelines for Preparing Urban Plans
ISBN: 9781884829079 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While many authors have written about what urban plans should contain and how they should be used, this comprehensive book leads you step by step through the entire plan preparation process. Citing examples from across the country, Larz Anderson shows how to prepare, review, adopt, and implement urban plans. He explains how to identify public needs and desires, analyze existing problems and opportunities, and augment long-range general plans with short-range district and function plans. Anderson presents these guidelines as tasks. For each task, he explains the rationale behind it, recommends...
While many authors have written about what urban plans should contain and how they should be used, this comprehensive book leads you step by step thro...
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660,05 zł |
Transportation & Land Use Innovations: When You Can't Pave Your Way Out of Congestion
ISBN: 9781884829123 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As our overstressed highways become increasingly snarled, America's love affair with the automobile continues to exact a frightening toll on our roadways, environment, and quality of life. This handbook, written especially for nontechnical readers, shows that you don't have to be a transportation engineer to effectively combat traffic congestion and automobile dependence. General planners and decision makers can set a new course by adopting broader transportation performance standards that incorporate mobility, livability, accessibility, and sustainability. Ewing demonstrates how manageable,...
As our overstressed highways become increasingly snarled, America's love affair with the automobile continues to exact a frightening toll on our roadw...
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269,04 zł |
Citistate Seattle: Shaping a Modern Metropolis
ISBN: 9781884829239 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Planning success depends on the support of city dwellers, builders, and workers. But few citizens understand why planning matters to the look, feel, and experience of daily city life. Most planners are at a loss to explain. Not Mark Hinshaw. He regularly brings the public face-to-face with real-life planning through his columns in the Seattle Times. Now, in Citistate Seattle, this respected architect and certified planner addresses a national audience by documenting planning's triumphs, near misses, and outright failures in one of America's most interesting boom towns. Planners looking for a...
Planning success depends on the support of city dwellers, builders, and workers. But few citizens understand why planning matters to the look, feel, a...
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431,52 zł |
Planning in Plain English: Writing Tips for Urban and Environmental Planners
ISBN: 9781884829406 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ability to communicate effectively is the most valuable skill any employee can bring to the job. That's even more true for planners, who must frequently convey an abundance of very complex, technical information to people who don't share their planning background or vocabulary. Unfortunately, the language in planning documents frequently is so convoluted, bureaucratic, and padded that its meaning is lost or completely misunderstood. Here is help for planners who write. In Planning in Plain English: Writing Tips for Urban and Environmental Planners, Natalie Macris draws from more than a...
The ability to communicate effectively is the most valuable skill any employee can bring to the job. That's even more true for planners, who must freq...
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162,42 zł |
Parking Management Best Practices
ISBN: 9781932364057 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The typical automobile is parked 23 hours a day. Where and how can make a big difference to economic development, traffic reduction, smart growth, historic preservation, and many other planning efforts. The parking management strategies described in this book will help planners increase parking facility efficiency and reduce parking demand. Parking management offers an alternative to traditional "predict and provide" parking planning, which has contributed to widespread auto dependency and urban sprawl. Instead of providing plentiful free parking, parking management provides optimal parking...
The typical automobile is parked 23 hours a day. Where and how can make a big difference to economic development, traffic reduction, smart growth, his...
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736,21 zł |
Impact Fees: Principles and Practice of Proportionate-Share Development Fees
ISBN: 9781932364552 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the only impact fee book you'll need for the next decade or longer This comprehensive reference book updates the popular, pioneering works on impact fees by introducing new methodologies, concepts, applications, and theories. The authors contend that it's time to go beyond narrowly defined impact fees to proportionate-share development fees broadly applied to publicly provided facilities and services and their operation. Impact fees are one-time charges applied to new development to generate revenue for the construction or expansion of capital facilities outside the boundaries of the...
This is the only impact fee book you'll need for the next decade or longer This comprehensive reference book updates the popular, pioneering works on...
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761,60 zł |
Growth Management Principles and Practices
ISBN: 9780918286925 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides an overview of various local, regional and state approaches to growth management and an analysis of the applicability of selected growth management techniques. It looks at those practices which are most and least effective.
This work provides an overview of various local, regional and state approaches to growth management and an analysis of the applicability of selected g...
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289,36 zł |
Strategic Planning in Local Government
ISBN: 9780918286772 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how and why strategic planning is working in cities around the country. It illustrates how this technique enables a city to plan its future proactively and shows how local governments use it to solve current problems and make sure they continue to reach their goals. Using seventeen case studies from a diverse mix of cities, it outlines the components of successful strategic planning, including program design, needs and capabilities assessment, implementation, and ongoing evaluation. In this book, you'll see how planners use strategic planning to synthesize population trends,...
This book shows how and why strategic planning is working in cities around the country. It illustrates how this technique enables a city to plan its f...
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218,27 zł |
Comprehensive City Planning: Introduction & Explanation
ISBN: 9780918286413 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mel Branch's classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages. The tie between land use and municipal administration is explored throughout. Topics include the roots of city management and planning; physical and socioeconomic views of cities; how city planning works within city government; the ties between planning and city politics; zoning and urban design; new towns; and regional planning. This work is the culmination of Mel Branch's long career in planning practice. His involvement in government, business, and academics means...
Mel Branch's classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages. The tie between land use a...
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167,50 zł |
Zoning and the American Dream: Promises Still to Keep
ISBN: 9780918286574 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thoughtful book assesses just how well zoning is meeting its goals six decades after it was introduced. Zoning and the American Dream finds grounds for both optimism and pessimism. Though susceptible to gross misuse, Haar and Kayden argue that zoning is still the most powerful tool available for shaping the environment in which we live and work. The book starts before the Supreme Court's 1926 landmark decision in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Company with a look at the battles that prompted litigation. It's a story of strong-willed individuals, surprising political coalitions, and...
This thoughtful book assesses just how well zoning is meeting its goals six decades after it was introduced. Zoning and the American Dream finds groun...
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660,05 zł |
Planning, Risk and Property Development: Urban Regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands
ISBN: 9780415481106 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban regeneration projects are once again deployed in Europe's cities, involving a widening range of actors whilst increasingly depending on private investment. This book explores the relationships, the objectives, and the strategies of the actors engaging in these projects in cities of three advanced European economies.
Urban regeneration projects are once again deployed in Europe's cities, involving a widening range of actors whilst increasingly depending on private ...
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736,21 zł |
Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding of New Orleans
ISBN: 9781932364804 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The recovery process has been slow and frustrating, in part because New Orleans was so unprepared for the physical challenges of such a disaster, but also because it lacked sufficient planning mechanisms to manage community reconstruction in a viable way. New Orleans has had to rebuild its buildings and institutions, but it has also had to create a community planning structure that is seen as both equitable and effective, while also addressing the concerns and demands of state, federal, nonprofit, and private-sector stakeholders.
The recovery process has been slow and frustrating, in part because New Orleans was so unprepared for the physical challenges of such a disaster, but ...
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319,82 zł |
Grid/Street/Place: Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts
ISBN: 9781932364729 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism? Grid / Street / Place presents a unique approach to understanding urban design through scientific, empirical research. The authors examined more than 100 successful projects throughout North America to identify differences and commonalities, and they discovered universal elements that characterize...
Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living as a...
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685,43 zł |
The Fundamentalist City? : Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space
ISBN: 9780415779357 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city.
The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundam...
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863,14 zł |
The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community
ISBN: 9781844078028 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in various contexts. It also critiques the single vision top down approach to design and planning.
A guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need...
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888,52 zł |
Delta Urbanism: The Netherlands: The Netherlands
ISBN: 9781932364866 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Delta Urbanism is a major new initiative that explores the growth, development, and management of deltaic cities and regions, with the aim of balancing various goals in a sustainable manner: urbanization, port commerce, industrial development, flood defense, public safety, ecological balance, tourism, and recreation. This book is a detailed history and overview of how one low-lying country has developed the policies, tools, technology, planning, public outreach, and international cooperation needed to save their populated deltas.
Delta Urbanism is a major new initiative that explores the growth, development, and management of deltaic cities and regions, with the aim of balancin...
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233,50 zł |
Town and Terraced Housing: For Affordability and Sustainability
ISBN: 9780415779128 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies allows a sustainable high density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating energy-efficient affordable living. Townhouses have been used for hundreds of years, and their evolution is covered from their inception right up to the present day. With the changing demographics of buyers in mind, Avi Friedman details how the design of these houses can be adapted to keep-up... Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townho... |
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238,58 zł |
In Extremis: Landscape Into Architecture
ISBN: 9781883584672 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Extremis is a cartography of contemporary global architecture, focusing upon the close relationship between different building types and the landscapes in which they are situated, illuminating the resonances and contrasts, continuities and discontinuities between new work and the natural or urban environment. With essays by Alessio Assonitis, Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Palaasma, Dimitri Philippidis, Jeannette Plaut, Jilly Traganou.
In Extremis is a cartography of contemporary global architecture, focusing upon the close relationship between different building types and the...
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187,06 zł |
Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks
ISBN: 9780415780438 / Angielski / Miękka / 14 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ports have been and continue to be critical in not just the global movement of goods, but also the global movement of ideas, social change, and cultural phenomena, including architecture and urban form. The connected points of a multi-faceted network, ports profoundly affect both each other and the cities and regions to which they belong. Shipping and trade networks have created a legacy embodied in the street patterns, land use and buildings of interconnected port cities. Multiple forces are at play: technological requirements, elite preferences and working class needs, urban policy and... Ports have been and continue to be critical in not just the global movement of goods, but also the global movement of ideas, social change, and cul... |
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253,82 zł |