Planning Techniques Books
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Building Competences for Spatial Planners: Methods and Techniques for Performing Tasks with Efficiency
By Anastassios Perdicoulis
Spatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require a number of skills to manage this process in an efficient manner, select the necessary tasks...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-59456-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy
By Judith E Innes, David E Booher
Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of collaborative rationality, to help make sense of the new practices. They enquire in detail into how collaborative...
March 2010 | 978-0-415-77932-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The New Spatial Planning: Territorial Management with Soft Spaces and Fuzzy Boundaries
By Graham Haughton, Philip Allmendinger, David Counsell, Geoff Vigar
Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is...
November 2009 | 978-0-415-48336-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Social-Environmental Planning: The Design Interface Between Everyforest and Everycity
By Chris Maser
Based on the author’s forty years of experience, this book discusses the sustainability of the planet and its population when dealing with climate change. The book focuses on community based solutions and how the heavy lifting of sustainability will always be done inside existing cities and...
September 2009 | 978-1-4398145-9-8 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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An Introduction to Community Development
Edited by Rhonda Phillips, Robert H. Pittman
Comprehensive and practical, this textbook enables students to connect academic study and professional know-how, and demonstrates how to best plan the rebuilding, revitalization and development of communities utilizing a wide variety of economic and strategic tools. Features include; chapter...
2008 | 978-0-415-77385-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South
Edited by Victoria A. Beard, Faranak Miraftab, Christopher Silver
The first in-depth study of the impact of economic and political decentralization on planning practice in developing economies, this innovative volume, using original case study research by leading experts drawn from diverse fields of inquiry, from planning to urban studies, geography and economics...
2008 | 978-0-415-41498-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Regional Planning
By John Glasson, Tim Marshall
Regional Planning provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, it provides students and practitioners with a descriptive and analytical foundation for understanding this rapidly changing area of planning...
2007 | 978-0-415-41526-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Urban and Regional Data Management: UDMS 2007 Annual
Edited by Massimo Rumor, Volker Coors, Elfriede M. Fendel, Sisi Zlatanova
Spatial technologies like GIS, CAD, and spatial DBMS have proved their applicability and usability in almost every sector of urban development. Urban Planning Systems, Public Participation Systems, and others have been continuously developed and improved contributing to better decision making,...
2007 | 978-0-415-44059-2 | Hardback (Taylor & Francis)