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Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 2
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 165.00Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics... more...
Global Age-friendly Cities
World Health Organization 2007; US$ 15.00Population ageing and urbanization are two global trends that together comprise major forces shaping the 21st century. At the same time as cities are growing, their share of residents aged 60 years and more is increasing. Older people are a resource for their families, communities and economies in supportive and enabling living environments. WHO regards... more...
Guide mondial pour des "villes-amies" des ainés
World Health Organization 2007; US$ 15.00Les deux tendances mondiales que sont le vieillissement demographique et l'urbanisation vont ensemble fortement marquer le XXIeme siecle. L'essor urbain s'accompagne d'une augmentation progressive du nombre des citadins de plus de 60 ans. Les personnes agees constituent une ressource pour leur famille, leur communaute et l'economie... more...
Place Management
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This ebook is the inaugural issue of the Journal of Place Management and Development. The journal has been launched to further our understanding of places it is the official journal of the Institute of Place Management which exists to support those involved in the important task of making places better. This ebook sets out to collect definitions... more...
Conceptions of the Desirable
Springer 2007; US$ 47.99Right in the heart of Graz, the second largest city in Austria, an entire city district had simply fallen into oblivion. Now, the industrial park of the former Reininghaus Brewery has been rediscovered. The new owners have taken up the search for answers: How, in future, do we wish to work and live? In his foreword, Clifford Pearson deputy editor of... more...
Strategic Spatial Projects
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 53.95Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and administrative activity. There is an urgent need to develop... more...
Garden Cities of To-Morrow
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 200.00Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A peaceful path to reform , "the book", writes F.J. Osborn "holds a unique place in town planning literature, is cited in all planning bibliographies, stands on the shelves of the more important libraries, and is alluded to in most books on planning; yet most of the popular writers on planning do not seem... more...
Of Planting and Planning
Spon Press 1996; US$ 42.95This book looks at the transfer of British planning legislation to the colonies and the influence of this transfer on world urbanization and present urban management approaches. more...
Urban Planning and Real Estate Development
Spon Press 2003; US$ 61.95This book is a comprehensive treatment of the twin processes of planning and development and is the only book to bring the two fields together in a single text. more...
Globalization and Urban Development
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 139.99Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities" (e.g.... more...









