Regional and area planning Books

Book SynopsisPATSY HEALEY is Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

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Book SynopsisThe landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their symbolic representation in words, images and other media. Less a means of conjuring up images of what is 'out there' than a way of living creatively in the world, imagination is immanent in perception itself, revealing the generative potential of a world that is not so much ready-made as continually on the brink of formation. Describing the ways landscapes are perpetually shaped by the engagements and practices of their inhabitants, this innovative volume develops a processual approach to both perception and imagination. But it also brings out the ways in which these processes, animated by the hopes and dreams of inhabitants, increasingly come into conflict with the strategies of external actoTrade Review'A thought-provoking book that is of interest to landscape scholars of various disciplinary bents. Drawing on examples from widely different geographical contexts, this is an important contribution to a body of work that highlights the creative involvement of humans with environments and landscapes through their practices, perceptions, and complex imaginings.' Karl Benediktsson, University of Iceland, IcelandTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction, Tim Ingold; Chapter 2 Seeing Ruins, Jo Vergunst; Chapter 3 Scottish Blackhouses, Tessa Poller; Chapter 4 OrkneyLab, Laura Watts; Chapter 5 Imagining Aridity, Stefano Biagetti, Jasper Morgan Chalcraft; Chapter 6 Meaningful Resources and Resource-full Meanings, Sophie Haines; Chapter 7 Imagining and Consuming the Coast, Kaori O’Connor; Chapter 8 Imagining the Forces of Life and the Cosmos in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, Monica Janowski;

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, it has become apparent that there are very distinct gaps between developed and developing regions in the world, especially in regards to e-government systems, infrastructures, and processes. This examines e-government from the perspective of developing nations and addresses the issues and concerns that have arisen in its systems and processes.

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Book SynopsisWritten and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice of EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) follow-up. Without some form of follow-up, the consequences of impact assessments and the environmental outcomes of development projects will remain unknown. Assessing Impact examines both EIA follow-up and the emerging practice of SEA follow-up, and showcases follow-up procedures in various countries throughout Europe, North America and Australasia. Theoretical and legislative perspectives are examined in the light of detailed case study examples, and the authors present a micro-, macro- and meta scale analysis of EIA practice ranging from individual plan and project level through to the jurisdictional level, as well as an analysis of the concept of EIA. Full coverage is given to the roles of proponents, both private and governmental, EIA regulators and the affected public in designing and executing follow-up programmes. This book is the must-have tool for impact assessment professionals, academics, regulators and proponents working on projects of all scales in all jurisdictions.Trade Review'This book will prove to be an invaluable reference and guide for EIA practitioners in industry, consultancies and regulatory agencies, as well as in the education and training sector' Paula Caldwell, Director General, Environmental Protection Service, Environment Canada 'This book is a must-have tool for impact assessment professionals, academics, regulators and proponents working on projects of all scales in all jurisdictions' MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 'This edited text is a valuable addition to the rapidly growing guidance documentation on environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA)... the balanced approach adopted by the authors means that the text is likely to be of interest to a mixed readership. The authors successfully achieve the somewhat daunting task of providing specialist technical insight whilst at the same time establishing clear linkages with broader environmental planning debates.' Adam Barker, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 49, No. 3, 471 - 474, May 2006 'Assessing Impact is written for the practitioner. I expect that it ill be read eagerly by those who want to make sure that EIA and SEA make substantial contributions to ESD.' Ian Thomas, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Journal of Environmental management, March 2005Table of ContentsIntroduction to EIA Follow-up * Theoretical Perspectives on EIA and Follow-up * A Practical Framework for EIA Follow-up * Designing for EIA Follow-up: Experiences from the Netherlands * Appraising Effects of Mitigation Measures: The Grand Coulee Dam's Impacts on Fisheries * Can Industry Benefit from Participation in EIA-follow-up? The Scottish Experience * EIA Follow-up and Adaptive Management * The Independent Environmental Watchdog: A Canadian Experiment in EIA Follow-up * Learning by Doing: EIA Follow-up in Hong Kong * Follow-up in Current SEA Understanding * On Evaluating the Success of EIA and SEAL * Lessons for EIA Follow-up * Appendix 1: Framework for EIA Follow-up and Effectiveness and Performance Review (Adapted from Sadler, 1996) * Index

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Book SynopsisThis book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation. To begin this conversation, we examine the smart village discourse, debates in design theory, non-western traditions of innovation, and sustainable development. Through case studies of smart village co-design we offer a way forward. This book is relevant for engineers, social scientists, and development practitioners. The book will be of special interest to those seeking to expand their inquiry into the role of science and technology in low and middle-income countries. Reconstructs the goals of smart villages to a community centric model. Intertwines the concepts of sustainable development and smart villages. Describes case studies achieving local value creation and circulation.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom, focussing primarily on the land use planning system in England, the way that housing providers engage with that system, and how the processes of engagement are changing or might change in the future.Planning, market and social house building - the three key processes - are first dissected and explored individually, then brought together to study the key areas of interaction between planning and the providers of social and market housing by way of the range of tensions that have consistently dogged those interactions. Extensive illustrative case study material provides a platform to the consideration of developing more integrated, realistic and proactive approaches to planning.Proposing evolutionary, and sometimes radical proposals for change, Delivering New Homes makes a bold contribution to finding a better way of delivering the newTable of ContentsPart 1: Processes 1. Introduction 2. Planning Process 3. Housing Development Process 4. Social Housing Process Part 2:Tensions 5. Land 6. Delay 7. Discretion 8. Design 9. Gain 10. Co-ordination Part 3:Solutions 11. Streamlined Implementation 12. Inclusive Planning and Decision Making 13. Integrated and Realistic Working Practices 14. Certainty and Transparency 15. Positive and Proactive Planning 16. Moving On References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing. The wider implications of policy and design are examined through a series of case studies of new housing projects in the UK and the Netherlands. Dutch interdisciplinary design and modern methods of construction are widely considered to be of the highest quality from which much can be learned and understood. This new guide offers architects the best practice for the design, policy and construction of new homes. The author considers proposals for the Thames Gateway and government incentives to create better quality housing, including the 60,000 house and design reviews. The wider implications of skills and training of architects, planners, design professionals and those parties involved in housing are also addressed. Table of ContentsPart 1: Design Quality in the Netherlands 1. Design Quality in Dutch Housing 2. Case Studies of New Housing in the Netherlands Part 2: Design Quality in the United Kingdom 3. Design Quality in Housing in the United Kingdom 4. Case Studies of New Housing in the UK 5. Low and High-Rise Doll's Houses and Dan Dare Steel and Glass Towers? Design Quality in the Thames Gateway Part 3: Learning from the Netherlands, Design Quality in New Housing in the UK and the Netherlands 6. Findings and Recommendations of Design Quality in the UK and in the Netherlands

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Book SynopsisThis is an introduction to the secrets of Urban Design Management (UDM). The book examines the roles of the players involved in land-use projects and describes good collaborative methods of practice in project-based urban design and planning, putting emphasis on the creative co-operative skills and the wide knowledge of the participants in a working group. The role of the architect is examined in relation to design, planning and project management with particular emphasis on collaboration and negotiation skills. Specific issues considered include: The make-up of a good project team Ways to make the project team function together Objectives and benefits of project-orientated planning The need to take local characteristics into account in project-orientated planning The preparation required for a co-operative planning process and how initial information can be collected and used Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Part 1: The Perfect Match Part 2: Togetherness Part 3: Creating Attractiveness Part 4: Setting Things in their Context Part 5: Starting Slow in order to Go Fast Part 6:Project Tools Part 7: Fitting in a Player's Strategy Part 8: Urban Design Management

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Book SynopsisSome thirty years ago the small Metropolitan County of Grotton found itself bathed in the bright glare of publicity as The Grotton Papers lifted the lid on the inner workings of the six planning departments of this hitherto little remarked corner of England.The intervening years have seen Grotton's County Council aim at the admirable and mostly achievable target of becoming average with moderate prospects of remaining average in the Government rankings, and the struggles of the District Councils to come to terms with planning in the late twentieth â let alone twenty-first â century are once again under the spotlight.The original authors of The Grotton Papers have come together once more to offer an experienced and surprisingly unjaundiced look at the way the British planning system works. Their comprehensive survey allows real lessons to be learnt from what Grotton has â and just as importantly hasn't â done since they were last in town.Grotton Revisited is without doubt the finest (and indeed the only) satirical book on this vitally important subject. It is suitable for planners of all ages and abilities, and will be essential reading for anyone who has ever had contact with the planning system, or thinks they may know someone who has. First class entertainment and education for professionals and general readers alike.Published in association with the RTPI.Trade Review"Loved it , I almost had to be resuscitated – Grotton Revisited will immediately become the standard text on Planning Practice in every planning school in the UK and far beyond. The fact that it will cause every planning student in the land to abandon their courses, for alternative vocations in investment banking or alternative therapies, is unfortunate"– Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, UK"This book makes you laugh with the planning system, not at it! A timely reminder of the importance of planning in all our lives and the problems which always accompany attempts at perfection" – John Gummer, Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal and former Secretary of State for the Environment, UK"It gave me a great deal of pleasure to review my acquaintance with your area’s crumbling infrastructure, decaying terraces, and blighted Country Park" – Nick Raynsford, Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich and Former Minister for Planning, UK"Grotton Revisited exposes with a biting satire and razor-sharp wit the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the planning system, and lays bare the dull, clumsy, two-dimensional box-ticking that underpins so much of the system... This is a wonderfully funny book... hopefully it will also act as a catalyst for reform" – Norman Baker, Lib Dem MP for Lewes, UK"Like a spoof April 1 general election poster (courtesy of The Guardian in 2010) which briefly fooled too many serious people, this classic satire-cum-parody-meets-real-life will - sadly - touch a raw nerve, as anyone dealing with officialdom, and its increasingly unfathomable language in the 90s and Noughties will attest!... A fabulous read!" – Peter Hetherington, former Guardian Regional Affairs Editor and TCPA Vice President"The funny thing is, it's no joke." – Michael Hebbert, University of Manchester, UK"It is an extremely funny book, but close enough to the reality of planning practice to be unsettling. It will certainly make you laugh, but it will be a rather nervous sort of laughter." – Australian Planner"Loved it , I almost had to be resuscitated – Grotton Revisited will immediately become the standard text on Planning Practice in every planning school in the UK and far beyond. The fact that it will cause every planning student in the land to abandon their courses, for alternative vocations in investment banking or alternative therapies, is unfortunate"– Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, UK"This book makes you laugh with the planning system, not at it! A timely reminder of the importance of planning in all our lives and the problems which always accompany attempts at perfection" – John Gummer, Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal and former Secretary of State for the Environment, UK"It gave me a great deal of pleasure to review my acquaintance with your area’s crumbling infrastructure, decaying terraces, and blighted Country Park" – Nick Raynsford, Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich and Former Minister for Planning, UK"Grotton Revisited exposes with a biting satire and razor-sharp wit the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the planning system, and lays bare the dull, clumsy, two-dimensional box-ticking that underpins so much of the system... This is a wonderfully funny book... hopefully it will also act as a catalyst for reform" – Norman Baker, Lib Dem MP for Lewes, UK"Like a spoof April 1 general election poster (courtesy of The Guardian in 2010) which briefly fooled too many serious people, this classic satire-cum-parody-meets-real-life will - sadly - touch a raw nerve, as anyone dealing with officialdom, and its increasingly unfathomable language in the 90s and Noughties will attest!... A fabulous read!" – Peter Hetherington, former Guardian Regional Affairs Editor and TCPA Vice President"The funny thing is, it's no joke." – Michael Hebbert, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsMessage from the President of the Royal Town Planning Institute 1. Planning in Crisis 2. The County of Grotton and the Five Districts of Which it is Comprised 3. The Development Plan in Crisis 4. Development Management in Crisis: A Case Study from Dunromin 5. Regeneration in Crisis 6. The Countryside in Crisis 7. Transport in Crisis 8. The Environment in Crisis, or What’s Posterity Ever Done for Me? 9. Management in Crisis The Grotton Advertiser: a Special Supplement to mark the 31st Anniversary of the 1979 "Planning in Crisis" Conference Appendices 10. Notes for delegates to the "Planning in Crisis" Conference 2010 11. An Invitation to the Secretary of State to address the Conference 12. An Important Decision relating to a Planning Appeal 13. An Extract from the Grotton Design Guide 14. An Appeal on Behalf of the Patrick Abercrombie Home for Distressed Planners by Alexander Quibble CB. Index

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Book SynopsisThe development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during recent years, and has become particularly relevant in the aftermath of September 11th. Dealing with issues of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary western cities, this book examines how the perceived risk of terrorist attack led to changes in the physical form and institutional infrastructure of the city of London during the 1990s when the city was a prime terrorist target. The book analyses how the various formal and informal strategies adopted in the City attempted to reduce both the physical and financial risk of terrorism. This was undertaken through a series of place-specific security initiatives and risk management policies which led to increased fortification, a substantial rise in terrorism insurance premiums, and, changing institutional relations at a variety of spatial scales. It also argues that the security Trade Review’Global terrorism has moved cities into the front-line of a battle with no boundaries and no visible enemies. This carefully researched book, with its focus on the activities of the Provisional IRA in London, provides valuable insight into the threat posed by terrorists and the responses available to the state. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the world’s major cities.’ John R. Gold, Oxford Brookes University, UK ’...essential reading for anyone seeking [to] grapple with the place of cities within today's never-ending states of emergency.’ Professor Stephen Graham, Newcastle University, UK ’There can be few security professionals who do not have the threat of terrorism on their list of risk factors. This book is therefore recommended without hesitation to anyone who has an interest in learning more about the impact of terrorism on the urban environment...you should take the time to read this book.’ Professional Security ’Innovative, interesting, indispensable ­ invest in a copy!’ Habitat ’...the work of Coaffee is most appreciated. The book gives a rich insight into many aspects of the London case...the book of Coaffee is rational in its analysis...’ disP ’This is an innovative book...brings together issues for those studying the built environment who may not have had cause nor reason in the past to study security related issues. This book would be just as relevant to a student in sociology, planning or modern history - such [are] the wide-ranging issues that it addresses...a well-written and researched book...anyone involved in urban planning, land use, design or management should purchase this book.’ CEBE Projects and Initiatives ’...excellent...the author’s examination of the London Corporation’s role in developing the Ring of Steel through the brokering of deals between Government and the insurance industry is a stark and timely example of risk society and its consequences.’ Journal of ContTable of ContentsContents: Part I: Transforming Cities in the Age of Terrorism: Introduction: terrorism, risk and the City; Urban restructuring and the development of defensive landscapes; Controlling the security discourse in the postmodern City; Risk society and the global terrorist threat. Part II: The City of London's Response: Constructing and reinforcing the ring of steel; Distributing the financial risk of terrorism; Framing, legitimating and negotiating the City's response to terrorist risk. Part III: Terrorism, Risk and the Future City: Beating the bombers: a decade of counter terrorism in the City of London; Terrorism and future urbanism; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisA major revision of a classic planning text. This book contains a complete model subdivision ordinance for city and county governments as well as more than 100 pages of legal commentary. The model regulations are generally compatible with all state statutes and work in urban, suburban, and rural settings. They show how communities can finance capital facilities, balance new development with existing surroundings, avoid exposure to the legal pitfalls of takings and substantive due process claims, and much more. Two new chapters cover public facilities impact fees and land readjustment. The chapter on impact fees includes a section on regulatory takings law that looks at how prominent U.S. Supreme Court cases have affected property rights, development, and regulation. Each section of the model regulations is followed by insightful commentary that supports, annotates, and documents the text. The authors explore the rationale for using various regulations, basing their arguments on existinTable of ContentsForeword to Second Edition , Excerpts from Foreword to First Edition (1974) , The History of Subdivision Regulations , General Provisions , Definitions 1 , Subdivision Application Procedure and Approval Process , Assurance for Completion and Maintenance of Improvements , Requirements for Improvements, Reservations, and Design , Public Facilities Impact Fees , Land Readjustment , Specifications for Documents to be Submitted , A Standard City Planning Enabling Act , The Ali Model Land Development Code , Suggested Forms for Subdivision Approval Procedures

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Book SynopsisAfter the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income irregular settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with these informal settlements, yet apart from the activities of Latin American Housing Network (LAHN), there has been minimal attention directed at the earliest portion of settlements that formed some 25-40 years ago that now form a large part of the intermediate ring of the cities.This volume breaks new ground by opening up a new generation of housing policy in Latin America cities with broader application for other developing countries. Its editors bring unique perspectives: Peter Ward coordinates the LAHN, and Edith Jiménez and María Di Virgilio are founding members of the netwTrade Review"The original research in this volume provides a landmark for anyone concerned with improving the lives of urban residents. Ward and his colleagues uniquely demonstrate the significant challenges facing cities while providing concrete solutions to meet the future needs of consolidated settlements."— Maureen Donaghy, Rutgers University"Since the 1960s and 1970s urban areas throughout Latin America have been shaped by informal settlements. Now fully serviced and consolidated, these apparently ordered low-income settlements have been largely off the radar of city and housing planners. In this path-breaking comparative study of ten cities, Ward, Jiménez, and de Virgilio and their colleagues of the LAHN make a highly significant contribution to reshaping housing policy in the region, and to ensuring that some 50% of the inhabitants of our large urban areas are now firmly back on the policy map."— Peter Spink, Centro de Administração Pública e Governo - Fundação Getulio Vargas - São Paulo"the book does a wonderful job in demonstrating the need for more innovative housing policies that take full advantage of Latin American cities’ hidden assets in order to tackle the persisting problems of lack of adequate housing for lower-income groups and dysfunctional, costly suburban growth. Hopefully, some of these ideas will find their place in the discussions that will take place in the upcoming 2016 UN-HABITAT III." — Daniel de Mello Sanfelici, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), BrazilTable of Contents1. Latin America’s "Innerburbs": Towards a New Generation of Housing Policies for Low-Income Consolidated Self-help Settlements; Peter M. Ward. 2. A Spectrum of Policies for Housing Rehab and Community Regeneration in the "Innerburbs"; Peter M. Ward. 3. Opportunities and Challenges for Consolidated Informal Urbanization in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara; Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and Heriberto Cruz Solís. 4. The Challenge for Housing Rehab in Mexico City and Monterrey; Peter M. Ward. 5. The Challenges of Consolidation in Precarious Settlements of Caribbean Cities: Santo Dominto, Dominican Republic; Erika Denisse Grajeda. 6. The Consolidation of the City and Low-income settlements in Guatemala City; Bryan Roberts. 7. New Approaches to Intervention in the Informally Settled Areas of Bogotá; Angélica Camargo Sierra. 8. Rehab, "Los Aires" and Densification of Consolidated Settlements in Lima, Peru; Danielle M. Rojas and Peter M. Ward, In collaboration with Olga Peek and Martha Lazarte Salinas. 9. Unique, or Just Different? Self-help, Social Housing and Rehab in Santiago, Chile; Peter M. Ward, In collaboration with Carolina Flores and Francisco Sabatini.10. Residential Trajectories of the Older Irregular Settlements in the City of Montevideo; Magdalena Marsiglia and María José Doyenart. 11. Transformations in the Originally Informal Consolidated Urban Areas of Metropolitan Buenos Aires; María Mercedes Di Virgilio, María Soledad Arqueros Mejica, and Tomás Guevara. 12. Rental Markets and Housing Policies in Consolidated Informal Settlements; Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and Angélica Camargo Sierra. 13. Urban Regeneration and Housing Rehabilitation in Latin America’s Innerburbs; Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jiménez Huerta and María Mercedes Di Virgilio

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Book SynopsisWith increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the social benefits of car-free and car-lite living, more and more city planners, advocates, and everyday urban dwellers are demanding new ways of building cities. In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and the United States that aim explicitly to reduce dependency on cars. Innovative and inspirational, these communities provide a rich array of data and metrics for comparison and analysis. This book considers these low car(bon) communities' potential for transferability to cities around the world, including North America.Aimed at practicing city planners, sustainable transportation advocates, and students in planning, geography, and environmental studies, this book will be an invaluable benchmark for gauging the success of sustainable urban futures. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why Low Car(bon)? Global Warming, Cars, and Cities 2. Amsterdam: GWL Terrein Case Study 3. Freiburg: Vauban Case Study 4. San Francisco: Market and Octavia Case Study 5. Stockholm: Hammarby Sjöstad Case Study 6. Malmö: Västra Hamnen Case Study 7. London: Greenwich Millennium Village Case Study 8. The Randstad: Houten Case Study 9. Conclusions and Lessons Learned

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Book SynopsisThe inflexibility of modern urban planning, which seeks to determine the activities of urban inhabitants and standardise everyday city life, is challenged by the unstoppable organic growth of illegal settlements. In rapidly expanding cities, issues of continuity with local traditions, local conditions and local ways of working are juxtaposed with those of abrupt change due to emergency, reaction to modernity, environmental degradation, global market forces and global technological imperatives to make efforts to control by physical planning redundant as soon as they are enacted. In most third world cities there is little social welfare and almost no attempt at social housing.Trade ReviewPrize: Winner of the UDG Publisher's Award 2012 'This book is a powerful wake-up call to all architects. It speaks about the meaning of architecture in circumstances that appear very different to those with which we are familiar in the West. The line of enquiry always revolves around the question of "how might architecture improve the way we live?"... It is a manifesto for an alternative form of architectural practice,... a testament to the value of an education - not a training - and undoubtedly equips students with strategies that are increasingly relevant. The reader is offered beautiful and mind blowingly complicated plans of existing settlements that have been surveyed, not copied and pasted. Evocatively shady interior views are set into landscapes strewn with debris; all the drawings inhabited by people. This is the landscape of humanity, where architecture serves as a backdrop, not a monument.' The Architectural Review 'Useful and beneficial for student, practitioner and academic alike, Learning from Delhi not only brings together notions of the spatio-physical and socio-economic, but also spatio-temporal and socio-environmental. An engaging book, joyful to go through...' Urban DesignTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Forewords; Introduction; Part I Setting the Scene: Field research; Methods (and modernity). Part II Essays: Delhi 'slums': red lines and high walls; The waste pickers of Panchseel Vihar; Havelis and the conglomerate matrix; Urban nomads; Climate, density and construction; Place, space and services; The relevance for architectural education in the UK. Part III Catalogue of Selected Students' Schemes: Slums, sanitation, amenity and housing; Waste picking; Havelis; Urban nomads; Leisure and livelihoods; Live projects; Students and projects 2002-2010; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisTriggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the subsequent reconstruction of cities, especially as many of the buildings and areas rebuilt after the Second World War are now facing demolition and reconstruction in their turn. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction. The book''s contents in 14 chapters cover the spread of themes from experiencing the war to reconstruction and its experiences; and although many chapters draw upon the UK experience, there is deliberate inclusion of some material from mainland Europe and Japan to emphasise that the experiences, processes and products are not London-specific. A comparative book tracing destruction to reconstruction is a relative raTrade Review’This important collection, edited by two of the leading scholars in the field, presents a wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary series of chapters on the impact of Second World War bombing and its aftermath. Focusing principally on Britain it also encompasses chapters on France, Germany and Japan and follows the experience from bombing, through crisis response to replanning and reconstruction. This book is a must read for scholars of reconstruction planning and the politics of place of the mid-twentieth century.’ John Pendlebury, Newcastle University, UK ’This collection is a major addition to the literature on wartime bombing and its aftermath. It deals with emotional, welfare, short and long term physical and other dimensions, combining many valuable chapters that open new perspectives on the British experience in World War II with valuable insights from elsewhere in Europe and Japan. It will stimulate new interest in the whole question of wartime destruction and its role in producing social, political and institutional change.’ Stephen V. Ward, Oxford Brookes University, UK '... this fertile collection promises to provoke and stimulate much fresh thinking about the connections between the experience of the blitz and later reconstruction. It deserves a large and diverse readership.' LSE Review of Books 'The book’s unorthodox horizontal layout provides space for large reproductions of the detailed maps and aerial views of urban landscapes that are essential for a collection covering the the topic of the built environment in wartime and recovery'. Planning Perspectives 'I also particularly liked the way in which this edited collection consciously tried to move beyond the confines of wartime London by considering how other cities and peoples-both in the UK and elsewhere around the world-were affected by, and responded to, the destruction wrought by the aerial bombardments of the Second World War'. CerclesTable of ContentsContents: The Blitz, its experiences, its consequences, Mark Clapson and Peter J. Larkham; La ville éventrée: or, how bombing turned the city inside out, Lindsey Dodd; Holiday camps, castles and stately homes: the residential option for the evacuation of disabled children during World War II, Sue Wheatcroft; A service forged in the flames: the Blitz, wartime fire-fighting and the National Fire Service, Shane Ewen; Between destruction and reconstruction: London’s Debris Clearance and Repair Organisation 1939-1945, Robin Woolven; The people’s peace: the myth of wartime unity and public consent for town planning, Susanne Cowan; Reconstruction constraints: political and economic realities, Catherine Flinn; Destruction and dispersal: the Blitz and the ’break-up’ of working-class London, Mark Clapson; Tradition and modernity: architecture in Japan after Hiroshima, Neil Jackson; Reconstruction civic authority in post-war Germany, Jeffry M. Diefendorf; Bold planning, mixed experiences: the diverse fortunes of post-war Birmingham, David Adams and Peter J. Larkham; Planning the reconstruction of war-damaged Plymouth, 1941-1961: devising and defending a modernisation agenda, Stephen Essex and Mark Brayshay; Destruction, revival and reconstruction across Alsace and Lorraine, 1939-1960, Hugh Clout; Problems of blitz reconstruction in Japan: the case of Sendai, Junichi Hasegawa; Index.

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Book SynopsisDiasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. It explores the way in which geo-politics affects individual lives and how national and regional borders inscribe themselves onto diasporic bodies. The book claims that the multiple belongings of diasporic citizens, half-here and half-there, provoke a crisis in the standard modes of architectural representation that tend to homogenise and flatten experience. Instead Diasporic Agencies makes a case for a non-representational approach, where the displacement of the diasporic subject and tTable of ContentsDiasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

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Book SynopsisSince its sudden and dramatic formation upon winning the competition to design Paisley Civic Centre in 1963, Hutchison, Locke and Monk (HLM Architects) has consistently served and adapted to the changing requirements of Britain's welfare state, and has instinctively dedicated its professional services to community architecture.Conceived from the perspective of founding partner Tony Monk, this book reveals the inside story of how the partnership has grown over 50 years to become a leading UK national practice. It sets out the early influences and progressive design philosophy of HLM Architects and analyses how they developed their design ethos from late-modern through contextual post-modern architectural styles by the early 1980s, and then matured into producing its own contemporary designs, explaining why these changes took place over that period. As well as reflecting the transformations in the social and political landscapes and in aesthetic approaches, it also ineviTable of ContentsForeword Sir George Young. Introduction Edward Denison. Prelude Tony Monk. 1. Civic Tony Monk. 2. Healthcare Leslie Welch. 3. Residential and Mixed Use Tony Monk. 4. Defence Christopher Liddle. 5. Custodial Christopher Liddle. 6. Education Caroline Buckingham. The Next Generation and the Future Christopher Liddle. Current HLM Board 2017. Project Lists. Awards. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisBringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities spanning four continents, this book provides a hands-on introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools that have emerged since the mid-2000s. The Spatial Network Analysis for Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS) tool is used as a practical example to demonstrate how city planners can find answers as they seek to improve public transport accessibility. Uniquely among the new generation of accessibility tools, SNAMUTS has been designed for multi-city comparisons. A range of indicators are employed in each city including: the effectiveness of the public transport network; the relationship between the transport network and land use activity; who gets access within the city; and how resilient the city will be. The cities selected enable a comparison between cities by old worldnew world; public transport modes; governance apTrade Review"The final chapter of the book (Chapter 9) summarizes the overall findings and reflects upon answers to introductory questions such as “What structures and types of urban form can optimize accessibility?” or “How should we invest in public transport infrastructure?” (p. 3) leading to the conclusion that a “one size fits all-appoach” (p. 291) does not provide a realistic accessibility-optimizing perspective. This is also what I consider the top contribution of this book. [T]his book an important and well-needed pioneering contribution for accessibility planners worldwide."Katrin Lättman, Journal of Transport GeographyPublic transit is an essential component of a sustainable future, but how to design a system that meets accessibility needs given finite budgets? Curtis and Scheurer offer help in the form of a sophisticated yet practical tool for analyzing transit accessibility. They demonstrate its use with a fascinating comparison across four continents that yields insightful lessons for planners. Susan Handy, University of California, Davis, USAThis is a unique and comprehensive sourcebook in the field of transport and urban planning. If you want to understand how cities and metropolitan areas around the globe are performing in terms of public transport accessibility, and what opportunities there are to improve it, read this book. Karst Geurs, University of Twente, the NetherlandsTable of Contents1. Introduction: What is accessibility planning and why does it matter? 2. Spatial Network Analysis for Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS): Understanding the Indicators3. Continuity and change in Australasian cities4. Stagnation and aspiration in North American cities5. More with less? Accessibility and public transport efficiency in European cities6. Eclipsing the car? Public transport designed to out-compete private transport7. Public Transport Dominance in Wealthy Asian Cities8. Polycentric and Multimodal Interfaces in the Dutch Randstad9. Conclusion: Accessibility and best-practice land use-transport integration

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Book SynopsisGood housing. Easy transit. Food access. Green spaces. Gathering places. Everybody wants to live in a healthy neighborhood. Bridging the gap between research and practice, it maps out ways for cities and towns to help their residents thrive in placed designed for living well, approaching health from every side – physical mental, and social.Table of Contents1. Importance: Assess how health matters in this place. 2. Balance: Make healthier places by balancing physical changes with other interventions to appeal to different kinds of people. 3. Vulnerability: Plan and design for those with the most health vulnerabilities and fewest resources for making healthy choices. 4. Layout: Foster multiple dimensions of health through overall neighborhood layout. 5. Access: Provide options for getting around and increasing geographic access. 6. Connection: Create opportunities for people to interact with each other in positive ways. 7. Protection: Reduce harmful exposures at a neighborhood level through a combination of wider policies and regulations along with local actions. 8. Implementation: Coordinate diverse actions over time

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Book SynopsisAustria’s Semmering Railway is regarded as a milestone in the history of railway construction. When it opened in 1854, it demonstrated the feasibility of building railways through even ruggedly mountainous regions. With the ongoing construction of the Semmering Base Tunnel to relieve the historic railway line, questions have arisen about the management, maintenance, and further development of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. This book, produced by the Working Group for World Heritage in Austria, includes contributions from a variety of disciplines and provides a comprehensive overview of the many activities involved in managing this mountain railway. Specially commissioned photographs by Hertha Hurnaus offer impressive views of the railway line, historic buildings, and the surrounding landscape.

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Book SynopsisEin städtisches Leben ohne Wildnis ist denkbar, aber nicht erstrebenswert!Stadtwildnis wagen! Das bedeutet ungeplanter Natur im städtischen Leben einen Platz bieten.Die meisten Stadtbewohner wissen heute gar nicht mehr, was Wildnis eigentlich ist, sind aber gleichzeitig von Wildtieren und –pflanzen fasziniert. Wir haben ein tief verwurzeltes Bedürfnis, etwas über das uns umgebende Leben, die Arten und Artenvielfalt zu erfahren, um zu verstehen, wie wir dies auch in die Städte holen können. Trotzdem haben wir keine konkrete Vorstellung wie wilde Stadtnatur integriert in eine grüne Infrastruktur aussehen kann.Dieses Lehrbuch zur wilden Stadt untersucht Stadtwildnis, ihre Erscheinungsformen, ihre Wahrnehmung durch Stadtbewohner und Naturschützer und begreift Wildnis als Chance und Herausforderung. Dabei stellt es Biodiversität und Naturerlebnis in den Mittelpunkt. Es beantwortet wichtige aktuelle Fragen zu den ökologischen und soziokulturellen Grundlagen von Stadtwildnis, zu ihrer Struktur, zum ökologischen Leistungsvermögen, zum Verhalten gegenüber Wildnis und zum Schutz von wilder Natur in der Stadt. Das Buch erklärt, was Stadtwildnis ist, warum sie Lebensraum von wilden Pflanzen und Tieren ist, wie die Bewohner der Stadt mit ihr zusammenleben können und warum Wildnis ein wertvoller Bestandteil einer blauen und grünen urbanen Infrastruktur sein kann.Theorien und Erkenntnisse der Stadtentwicklung und Ökologie werden mit praktischen Anwendungen in der Stadtplanung zum Thema Stadtwildnis verbunden und mit vielen Fallstudien und weltweiten Beispielen veranschaulicht. Die großen Potenziale von Stadtwildnis werden im Detail aufgezeigt. Um Stadtwildnis nicht zum Problem werden zu lassen, bedarf es eines zielgerichteten, an die besonderen Bedingungen wilder Stadtnatur angepassten Wildnis-Managements, das Naturschutz wie Naturgestaltung gleichermaßen einschließt und dabei immer den Bezug zu den Stadtbewohnern im Auge behält.Ein Lehrbuch, das besonders Studierende und Lehrende der Fächer Stadt- und Raumplanung, Ökologie, Biologie, Landschaftsarchitektur, Landschaftspflege, Geographie und Sozialwissenschaften anspricht und darüber hinaus auch fächerübergreifende Studiengänge wie Smart Cities und Naturmanagement sowie Praktiker der Stadtgestaltung und -entwicklung und des Naturschutzes bedient.Trade Review“… Das Werk mit umfangreichem Literaturverzeichnis ist in erster Linie gedacht für Studierende und Lehrende der Fächer Stadt- und Raumplanung, Ökologie, Biologie, Landschaftsarchitektur und -pflege, aber auch aktiv am Naturschutz beteiligte werden manche Anregung finden.” (Michael Mücke, in: ekz-Informationsdienst, Heft 14, 2022)Table of ContentsWidmung.- Vorwort.- 1. Die wilde Natur.- 2. Wilde Natur in der Stadt.- 3. Wildnisse in der Stadt.- 4. Wahrnehmung von Natur und Wildnis.- 5. Akzeptanz von Stadtwildnis und Wildtieren in der Stadt.- 6. Schutz von Stadtwildnis.- 7. Stadtwildnis willkommen! Integration von Wildnis in urbane Nutzungsbezüge.- 8. Herausforderung und Konzepte für Stadtwildnis.- Index.

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Book SynopsisPraise for the First Edition . . . an excellent addition to an upper-level undergraduate course on environmental statistics, and . . . a ''must-have'' desk reference for environmental practitioners dealing with censored datasets. ?Vadose Zone Journal Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab and R, Second Edition introduces and explains methods for analyzing and interpreting censored data in the environmental sciences. Adapting survival analysis techniques from other fields, the book translates well-established methods from other disciplines into new solutions for environmental studies. This new edition applies methods of survival analysis, including methods for interval-censored data to the interpretation of low-level contaminants in environmental sciences and occupational health. Now incorporating the freely available R software as well as Minitab into the discussed analyses, the book features neTrade Review“Helsel’s book is an excellent resource for scientists and statisticians, as well as an effective textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate school students.” (Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 1 May 2014)Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction to the First Edition: An Accident Waiting to Happen xiii Introduction to the Second Edition: Invasive Data xvii 1 Things People Do with Censored Data that Are Just Wrong 1 Why Not Substitute—Missing the Signals that Are Present in the Data 3 Why Not Substitute?—Finding Signals that Are Not There 8 So Why Not Substitute? 10 Other Common Misuses of Censored Data 10 2 Three Approaches for Censored Data 12 Approach 1: Nonparametric Methods after Censoring at the Highest Reporting Limit 13 Approach 2: Maximum Likelihood Estimation 14 Approach 3: Nonparametric Survival Analysis Methods 17 Application of Survival Analysis Methods to Environmental Data 17 Parallels to Uncensored Methods 21 3 Reporting Limits 22 Limits When the Standard Deviation is Considered Constant 23 Insider Censoring–Biasing Interpretations 29 Reporting the Machine Readings of all Measurements 33 Limits When the Standard Deviation Changes with Concentration 34 For Further Study 36 4 Reporting, Storing, and Using Censored Data 37 Reporting and Storing Censored Data 37 Using Interval-Censored Data 41 Exercises 42 5 Plotting Censored Data 44 Boxplots 44 Histograms 46 Empirical Distribution Function 47 Survival Function Plots 49 Probability Plot 52 X–Y Scatterplots 59 Exercises 61 6 Computing Summary Statistics and Totals 62 Nonparametric Methods after Censoring at the Highest Reporting Limit 62 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 64 The Nonparametric Kaplan–Meier and Turnbull Methods 70 ROS: A “Robust” Imputation Method 79 Methods in Excel 86 Handling Data with High Reporting Limits 86 A Review of Comparison Studies 87 Summing Data with Censored Observations 94 Exercises 98 7 Computing Interval Estimates 99 Parametric Intervals 100 Nonparametric Intervals 103 Intervals for Censored Data by Substitution 103 Intervals for Censored Data by Maximum Likelihood 104 Intervals for the Lognormal Distribution 112 Intervals Using “Robust” Parametric Methods 125 Nonparametric Intervals for Censored Data 126 Bootstrapped Intervals 136 For Further Study 140 Exercises 141 8 What Can be Done When All Data Are Below the Reporting Limit? 142 Point Estimates 143 Probability of Exceeding the Reporting Limit 144 Exceedance Probability for a Standard Higher than the Reporting Limit 148 Hypothesis Tests Between Groups 151 Summary 152 Exercises 152 9 Comparing Two Groups 153 Why Not Use Substitution? 154 Simple Nonparametric Methods After Censoring at the Highest Reporting Limit 156 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 161 Nonparametric Methods 167 Value of the Information in Censored Observations 178 Interval-Censored Score Tests: Testing Data that Include (DL to RL) Values 180 Paired Observations 183 Summary of Two-Sample Tests for Censored Data 192 Exercises 192 10 Comparing Three or More Groups 194 Substitution Does Not Work—Invasive Data 195 Nonparametric Methods after Censoring at the Highest Reporting Limit 196 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 199 Nonparametric Method—The Generalized Wilcoxon Test 209 Summary 215 Exercises 216 11 Correlation 218 Types of Correlation Coefficients 218 Nonparametric Methods after Censoring at the Highest Reporting Limit 219 Maximum Likelihood Correlation Coefficient 224 Nonparametric Correlation Coefficient—Kendall’s Tau 227 Interval-Censored Score Tests: Testing Correlation with (DL to RL) Values 230 Summary: A Comparison Among Methods 232 For Further Study 234 Exercises 235 12 Regression and Trends 236 Why Not Substitute? 237 Nonparametric Methods After Censoring at the Highest Reporting Limit 239 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 249 Akritas–Theil–Sen Nonparametric Regression 258 Additional Methods for Censored Regression 264 Exercises 266 13 Multivariate Methods for Censored Data 268 A Brief Overview of Multivariate Procedures 269 Nonparametric Methods After Censoring at the Highest Reporting Limit 273 Multivariate Methods for Data with Multiple Reporting Limits 288 Summary of Multivariate Methods for Censored Data 296 14 The NADA for R Software 297 A Brief Overview of R and the NADA Software 297 Summary of the Commands Available in NADA 300 Appendix: Datasets 303 References 309 Index 321

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book exemplifies the importance of sophisticated and intelligent spatial analysis techniques in dealing with the range of location, distribution and channel management issues which face todaya s retail and service businesses.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION TRENDS IN RETAILING Introduction Demand-Side Changes Trends in Distribution and Retail Supply The Regulatory Environment Conclusion RETAIL LOCATIONS AND DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS:PAST,PRESENT AND FUTURE Introduction The High Street or Town Centre The Superstore and Hypermarket The Discount Store The Shopping Centre or Mall The Retail Warehouse and Retail Park New Retail Locations New Retail Formats and Distribution Channels The Old versus the New Conclusion SPATIAL RETAIL GROWTH STRATEGIES Introduction Organic Growth Mergers and Acquisitions Franchising Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances Warehouse LocationConclusion SPATIAL RETAIL GROWTH STRATEGIES Introduction What is E-Commerce/Internet Retailing? Who Makes Money from the Internet? Understanding Consumer Preferences Examples of Internet Retailing in Different Sectors Geography,the Internet and E-Commerce Conclusion TERRITORY PLANNING Introduction Territory Management Balanced Workloads Ef .cient Organization Conclusion METHODS FOR SITE SELECTION Introduction An Inductive Approach to Site Selection A Deductive Approach to Site Selection Applied Location Modelling The Simplicity Spectrum SPATIAL INTERACTION MODELS FOR RETAIL SITE ASSESSMENT The Model and its Development Estimating the Small Area Demands for Products and Services The Supply Side Customer Flows and Store Revenues Providing a Decision-Support Capability The Development of a Cross Channel Management Planfor the City of Vienna for a Major Automotive Manufacturer Conclusion NETWORK REPRESENTATION PLANNING Introduction Case Study 1:Automotive Network Optimization Case Study 2:Financial Services Network Optimization Post-merger Network Optimization Retail network optimization Conclusion DIRECT MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL MANAGEMENT Introduction Geodemographics Enhancement of Geodemographics Lifestyle Databases Other Micro-Modelling Strategies A Financial Services Channel Simulation Model MEASURING THE BENEFITS OF SPATIAL MODELLING Introduction Returns on Capital Operational Ef .ciency Improved Competitiveness Strategic Value Applications to Market RegulationConclusion CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisGreen Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as important public space, over structure.Trade Review"Green Roof Systems, provides technical information for the planning, construction and maintenance of green roofs. The authors provide a lucid introduction with basic definitions of green roofs and a discussion of the serious effects that conventional roofs can have on the environment. They describe the value of using green roofs for stormwater management and for the creation of usable landscapes over structure." (The Designer, Summer 2010) "This is the green roof textbook that will be indispensable for many years. The book credibly situates the green roof in the sustainable "save the planet" scenario. There is comprehensive coverage of the documentation, bidding, construction, and risk management phases of green roof implementation. The content of this book will set the industry standard henceforth…overall, the book seamlessly merges the extensive and international experience of both Weiler and Scholz-Barth, yet brings the green roof industry to this continent, with American standards and practices." (Landscape Architecture, October 2009) "Replete with charts, diagrams, and photos, "Green Roof Systems" can serve as a one-stop resource for designers. Authors Susan K. Weiler and Katrin Scholz-Barth provide the basics as well as technical information about green roof systems, component and applications, and how to design and build them." (GreenerBuildings.com, May 2009) "…this book is loaded with valuable information. The book provides a bit of preface and context of the larger picture of green roofs from concept to planning- but this is not the strong selling point. That comes in the details. And there are details. The structure of the book guides a reader through systems, materials, documentation, structure, bidding and construction, and touching on liability and maintenance." (landscape+urbanism blog, 4/30/09) "With the Obama stimulus package emphasizing the effort to weatherize existing buildings this book couldn't come at a better time. A designer's one stop resource to green roofs that merges architecture and landscape. The book offers substantive and technical information on living green roof and landscapes over structure." (Green Insight Newsletter, May 2009)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Replenishing Our Diminishing Resources: Integrating Landscape and Architecture. Chapter 2 Beyond the Property Line: Ecological, Economic, Spatial, and Social Benefits of Green Roof Systems. Chapter 3 Envisioning Green Roof Systems: From City Scale to Project Scale. Chapter 4 Green Roof Systems at the Project Scale: Site and Architectural Considerations. Chapter 5 Considerations in Developing Structural Systems for Green Roof Systems. Chapter 6 Component Parts: Inert and Dynamic. Chapter 7 Putting the Parts Together: The Design and Documentation Process. Chapter 8 The Bidding and Construction Process. Chapter 9 Minimizing, Managing, and Insuring Risk. Chapter 10 Maintenance Requirements and Performance Evaluation. Index.

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Book SynopsisPlanning Resilient Infrastructure Systems is an essential guide for planning practitioners, providing tools and approaches needed for complex, changing and uncertain environments. This book takes a systems approach to infrastructure planning, focusing on delivering and sustaining the optimum outcome for society. It emphasises using evidence to understand the systems' requirements in context, selecting the most appropriate risk-based tools for the situation, and a through-life view of purpose and value.Key features include: a systematic approach applicable across a range of infrastructure sectors evidence-based tools for mapping infrastructure dependencies, modelling hazard impacts, and assessment of mitigation and recovery options to manage systems risk a common set of planning considerations and performance metrics useful for a range of stakeholders extensive use of examples illustrating applications across a range of contexts

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of "Regional Economic Impact Analysis and Project Evaluation", this book provides the tools for making population projections and discusses four principal approaches: mathematical extrapolation, comparative methods, cohort survival, and migration models.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Mathematical Extrapolation I 3. Mathematical Extrapolation II 4. Comparative Methods 5. The Cohort-Survival Population Model 6. Migration Models 7. A Final Note Appendices A. Linear Regression B. Logarithms Notes Selected Readings Index

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Book SynopsisDistorted price signals and flawed public policy create powerful and largely hidden perverse subsidies and incentives that promote urban sprawl.Trade ReviewAnalytical and detailed in its approach and consistently daring in challenging accepted views of the causes of and solutions for urban sprawl. -- Donner Prize JuryTable of ContentsPreface1 The Price of SprawlPart 1: The Planning Problem2 Sprawl: A Planning Problem3 The Costs and Benefits of SprawlPart 2: The Problem with Planning4 The Costs and Benefits of Planning5 How Do Our Cities Grow? Plans versus Reality6 Prices Drive SprawlPart 3: Subsidies, Cross-Subsidies, and Mis-Incentives: How Public Policy Finances Sprawl7 Municipal Services: Costs and Prices8 Network Services: Costs and Prices9 Housing, Infrastructure, and Energy: More Mis-Pricing and Mis-Incentives10 Driving Sprawl: Pricing and Policy Mis-IncentivesPart 4: What to Do11 Principles for a Market-Oriented Approach12 A Toolbox of Market-Oriented Instruments13 Perverse Subsidies, Perverse CitiesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAn engaging study of the rapid urbanization of a former village subsumed by the expanding city of Hanoi.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough(1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAn engaging study of the rapid urbanization of a former village subsumed by the expanding city of Hanoi.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Early Urban Transition (1920-40) 2 Uneven Socialist Revolutions (1940-65) 3 Eating by Points and Coupons Is Not Enough(1965-80) 4 The New Urban Territorial Order (1980-2010) 5 Land for Fresh Ghosts, Land for Dry Ghosts Conclusion Notes References Statutes Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, based on extended ethnographic and multi-method research in a small town in Canada, adds new perspectives on the ways that citizenship is produced and reproduced under conditions of neoliberalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Ontario’s Most Historic Town2 Placing Cobalt3 Citizenship and Local Government4 Reluctant Regionalists5 The Proposal EconomyPostscriptAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis much-anticipated second edition builds on lessons learned from the past and links them to current trends already shaping the future of regional planning in Canada.Table of ContentsPreface to Second EditionIntroductionPart 1: Roots and Rationale of Regional Planning1 Roots of Regional Planning: Precursors and Perspectives2 Canadian Regional Planning in Transition, 1950-20153 Key Features of Regional Planning PracticePart 2: Planning Resource Regions, Rural Regions, and Regional Environments4 Planning Peripheral Resource Regions5 Planning Rural Regions and Their Communities6 Regional Planning for Conservation and the EnvironmentPart 3: Planning Metropolitan Regions7 Planning Metropolitan Regions8 Planning the Multi-Metropolitan RegionPart 4: The Future Shape of Canadian Regional Planning9 The Continuing Need for Regional PlanningIndex

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Book SynopsisSite Fights stresses the importance of developing engaged civil society even in the absence of crisis, thereby making communities both less attractive to planners of controversial projects and more effective at resisting future threats.Trade ReviewSite Fights is an impressive book that pushes the reader to reconsider the role of civil society in state policymaking. It is of great interest to scholars in comparative politics and civil society research, activists, and policymakers alike. * Japanese Journal of Political Science *Although the study is largely a chronicle of failed efforts by civil-society groups to stop public projects in their communities, Aldrich emphasizes that when civil society mobilizes broadly and strongly, it can force the state to use milder tactics and can sometimes even prevail. -- Patricia G. Steinhoff * American Journal of Sociology *Daniel Aldrich's book should be read by anyone interested in Japanese politics in general and those who want to have a deeper understanding of the politics behind the siting of what Aldrich calls 'public bads’: facilities that impose costs directly upon a community. -- Linda Hasunuma * Journal of Asian Studies *The popular slogan NIMBY—Not in My Back Yard—captures a classic dilemma that confronts policymakers: Although society as a whole requires certain basic public goods, such as energy supplies, improved infrastructure, and transportation hubs, individual communities are often unwilling to bear the localized costs and externalities of hosting these installations. In this fresh, insightful, and creative study, Daniel Aldrich explores the ways in which states decide to site controversial facilities and the types of instruments that public agencies employ to respond to societal opposition against these siting decisions. -- Alexander Cooley * Perspectives on Politics *The unique contribution of this book lies in its nature as an exercise in comparative public policy. The case studies, which include Japan and France, are very well done and provide empirical evidence for the universal nature of the human reaction to siting dilemmas. They suggest that the strategic interaction between democratic state policy processes and the organizational structure of the civic society involved—including its conventions, values, and legal background—can indeed predict the success or failure of facility siting. * Political Science Quarterly *Site Fights makes a very important contribution to both the civil society and comparative politics literatures relating to Japan. It will serve as an excellent text in a graduate-level seminar on Japanese domestic politics and should be of interest to scholars and policymakers interested in environmental issues, state-society relations, and the challenges faced by modern states in their quest to secure expanded sources of energy. Finally, citizen activists in advanced democracies would do well to take heed of one of this book's implied lessons: in order to force state compliance with democratic standards of behavior, you must gaman (persevere). -- Patricia L. Maclachlan * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Site Fights and Policy Tools 1 Picking Sites 2 A Logic of Tool Choice 3 Occasional Turbulence: Airport Siting in Japan and France 4 Dam the Rivers: Siting Water Projects in Japan and France 5 Trying to Change Hearts and Minds: Japanese Nuclear Power Plant Siting 6 David versus Goliath: French Nuclear Power Plant Siting Conclusion: Areas for Future Investigation

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a very serious new book about economics and policy written by a team of academics under the leadership of Michael Storper . . . But it is written in a very accessible style, using the structure of a scientific detective story. And it is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of California and cities more broadly."—Jon Christensen, SFGate"The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies is a path-breaking book, both empirically and theoretically. It brings together an impressive array of data that helps explain the divergent economic trajectories of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles region, and provides new theoretical insights on the importance of social networks and knowledge communities in shaping economic growth."—Chris Benner, University of California, Santa Cruz"Throughout history, commerce and cities have invented and paced each other. Once developed, cities entered into competition. Blending the perspectives of history, business, urban planning, and public/private partnership, this lively and exhaustively documented study tells the story of how two representative urban regions—the Bay Area centered on San Francisco and Los Angeles, a metropolitan region unto itself— have carried on this ancient and ever new competition for commerce and hegemony."—Kevin Starr, University of Southern California"A highly original inquiry into the diverging development trajectories of Los Angeles and San Francisco since the 1970s. This book offers exemplary forensic evidence, while at the same time providing a robust theoretical appraisal of regional growth in general."—Allen J. Scott, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles"Storper and his colleagues have crafted a sweeping yet nuanced account of how the economies of metropolitan Los Angeles and San Francisco have steadily diverged over the past several decades. Their interpretation, based on a wealth of data and interviews, has important lessons for many urban regions struggling to maintain or improve their place in the global economy."—Edward J. Malecki, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Divergent Development of City Regions chapter abstractEconomic development is geographically uneven; incomes differ widely across places. After a long period during which incomes tended to become more even across cities and regions within developed countries, they are now diverging again. In 1970, the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles regions had very similar per capita incomes; in 2012, Los Angeles was almost 30 percent lower than the Bay Area. Understanding this process of divergence, which is widespread among metropolitan regions around the world, is a window on understanding economic development more generally. 2Divergent Development: The Conceptual Challenge chapter abstractInnumerable forces influence economic development, and research on it uses many different methods and comes from several disciplines. Four theoretical fields that contribute to understanding divergent economic development of city regions are development theory, regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and the social science of institutions. Together, they provide a robust framework for understanding convergence and divergence in economic development. 3The Motor of Divergence: High-Wage or Low-Wage specialization chapter abstractThe specialization of urban regions in different tradable industries is the source of significant differences in wages and income levels. Los Angeles was more specialized than San Francisco in 1970 but considerably less specialized in 2010. During this period, San Francisco consolidated its specialization in activities related to information technology, and Los Angeles consolidated its hold on the entertainment industries, but Los Angeles lost many other high-wage specializations it formerly contained, replacing them with low-wage specializations. Los Angeles also lost its lead over San Francisco in innovative sectors, as the latter soared in its per capita patenting rate. All in all, Los Angeles's economy came to have less overall focus and sophistication, while San Francisco's came to have more. 4The Role of Labor in Divergence: Quality of Workers or Quality of Jobs? chapter abstractDifferences in average regional wages between San Francisco and Los Angeles increased from 5 percent in 1970 to 35 percent in 2010. Wage gaps are due partially to increasing differences in the skills of the labor force but are proportionally greater than the increase in skills gaps. Skills gaps themselves must also be explained. Do they emerge as different kinds of people migrate or stay according to different kinds of jobs created in the two regions? Or is it the reverse: people go to the two regions in search of lifestyle amenities and housing, and the two economies diverge by absorbing different kinds of people? This is the key debate in urban labor economics. This chapter shows that the key force in drawing different kinds of labor was an increasing gap in the types of employment available, itself driven by differences in regional economic specialization. 5Economic Specialization: Pathways to Change chapter abstractIndustries, firms, and entrepreneurs in the Bay Area and Los Angeles did not plan the economic divergence of their regions. They faced challenges from the restructuring of the Old Economy and benefited from the opportunities of the New Economy. Their successes and failures widened the income gap between the two regions. This chapter presents comparative case studies of entertainment, aerospace, information technology, logistics, and biotechnology in San Francisco and Los Angeles, showing how they developed differently and shaped specialization, wages, and income divergence in the two regions. 6Economic Development Policies: Their Role in Economic Divergence chapter abstractRegional economic development is shaped by many policies, which are implemented by national governments, regional and state governments, and local governments. But local economic development policies in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area since 1970 had little to do with the economic divergence of these two regions. In reality, many so-called economic development policies have little to do with economic development as such, instead emphasizing land use changes and competition for sales tax revenue rather than industry and job development. Many of the problems with local planning and development policies in the United States in general are exemplified by the comparison of the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles. 7Beliefs and Worldviews in Economic Development: To Which Club Do We Belong? chapter abstractDominant beliefs—those of political and economic entrepreneurs in a position to make policies—over time result in the accretion of an elaborate structure of institutions that determine economic and political performance. This chapter documents the worldviews and beliefs of regional leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles since 1970. In Los Angeles, leaders never developed a consistent vision of the new economy or the region's role in it; in San Francisco, this vision emerged early in the 1980s and was reinforced over time and diffused throughout the region's leadership institutions. Moreover, San Francisco's leadership institutions are stronger and more interconnected than those of Greater Los Angeles, and its political majorities are more consistent over time, leading to more consistent regional policy agendas. 8Seeing the Landscape: The Relational Infrastructure of Regions chapter abstractNetworks of people and organizations create "invisible colleges" in labor markets, industries, communities, and political leadership. They influence who gets access to other people and hence to implementing ideas and finding resources. This chapter measures the corporate, philanthropic, and leadership networks of the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles since 1980. It shows that they had similar starting points in terms of their structure of connections, but that they diverged. Principal firms and industries in Los Angeles became less connected, while in San Francisco they become more closely intertied, with broader and deeper connections among their boards of directors. Networks among scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and firms are much denser in San Francisco than in Greater Los Angeles. There are more industry-building dealmakers in the Bay Area than in Los Angeles. The relational infrastructures of the two regions have become more and more different over time. 9Connecting the Dots: What Caused Divergence? chapter abstractThe sources of economic divergence lie in their divergent levels and types of economic specialization. Specialization is caused by many forces, including lucky breakthroughs in technology, particular powerful individuals, decisions of key firms at critical turning points, and lock-in effects from initial advantages. Most of these forces cannot be predicted or created. But they must find fertile ground, and this ground is prepared by the ability of the regional economy's firms, leaders, and workers to create and absorb the organizational change that is key to new, high-wage industries. Los Angeles and San Francisco are a striking contrast in these abilities, with Los Angeles's firms and leaders persistently returning to Old Economy organizational forms and San Francisco's firms and leaders consistently inventing the organizational forms of the New Economy that become models for the American and world economies as a whole. 10Shaping Economic Development: Policies and Strategies chapter abstractHigh-wage specialization comes from a complex sequence involving entrepreneurship, encouragement by local robust actors or leaders, breakthrough innovations, new organizational practices, the emergence of supportive overall relational infrastructure and networks, the proliferation of new specialized brokers and dealmakers, the diffusion of conventions or rules of thumb for doing business in new ways, and ultimately the consolidation of major firms. What is common to all processes of successful respecialization of a region's economy is the emergence of the right kinds of networks, organizational practices, worldviews, and beliefs for the region's evolving economic specializations. It is crucial to align understandings and change expectations so as to change policy agendas and to open up new forms of private action. When regional conversations are outdated, the process of organizational adjustment is stymied, as it has been in Los Angeles for 40 years. Old conversations must not crowd out new ones. 11Improving Analysis of Urban Regions: Methods and Models chapter abstractThe chapter assesses the contributions of regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and the institutional approaches found in economics, sociology, and political science to the analysis of urban economic development. The concept of development clubs should guide empirical identification of city-regions that are in different structural categories and their different constraints and opportunities. Each theory has additional empirical and methodological gaps that can be improved on. If this is done, then the field of comparative regional economic analysis will be able to offer more robust insights into economic development.

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Book Synopsis"For years we wasted land with impunity," William H. Whyte writes in this classic work at last returned to print, "now we no longer can."Trade Review"When it was first published, The Last Landscape was radical stuff. As much as Silent Spring challenged American science to recognize its long-term responsibilities, Whyte's book asked communities, the government, and the design profession to do the same. Four decades later, this book is just as timely, the only difference is that the logic is now mainstream and the evidence is overwhelming." * Paco Underhill, author of Why We Buy *"An excellent book." * Jane Jacobs *"A practical handbook for all who care enough to fight for a more liveable environment." * Washington Post *Table of ContentsForeword, by Tony Hiss 1. Introduction 2. The Politics of Open Space THE DEVICES 3. The Police Power 4. The Fee Simple 5. Easements 6. The Tax Approach 7. Defending Open Space THE PLANS 8. The Year 2000 Plans 9. The Green Belts 10. Linkage 11. The Design of Nature DEVELOPMENT 12. Cluster Development 13. The New Towns 14. The Project Look 15. Play Areas and Small Spaces LANDSCAPE ACTION 16. The Plan of the Landscape 17. Scenic Roads 18. Roadsides 19. Townscape DESIGN AND DENSITY 20. The Case for Crowding 21. The Last Landscape Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFormer two-term mayor of Miami Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of America's most diverse and dynamic urban communities.Trade Review"Miami Transformed is the story of a doer, a big thinker with a passion for improving the lives of people. Manny Diaz is undaunted by the challenges that inevitably arise in government and business but always squarely focused on the agenda he has carefully set to reach his goals. That's the definition of a good leader, and that, based on my experience, is Manny Diaz." * Richard M. Daley, former Mayor of Chicago *"Manny Diaz became the mayor of Miami during a critical time, when professional leadership was needed. He took the city to new heights and also represented Miami nationally and internationally as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Manny is a visionary leader who has never lost his footing or his roots. He epitomizes the immigrant success story and the fruition of the American Dream." * Eduardo J. Padrón, President of Miami Dade College *"Under Mayor Manny Diaz's leadership and direction, Miami has undergone a great and sustaining transformation into a cultural hotspot and a hub for the 'creative class,' with a thriving business climate that is open, multicultural, and inclusive. Miami Transformed offers politicians and policymakers a blueprint for transforming their cities block-by-block into destinations for innovative businesses and entrepreneurs, building livable and safe communities for all." * Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited *"Manny Diaz was a great mayor, and he will go down in history as one of our country's most innovative urban leaders because he put progress before partisanship-and because he never stopped asking 'Why not?' His legacy will be defined not only by a soaring skyline but also by cutting-edge policies that made Miami a national leader on urban issues." * From the Foreword, by Mayor Michael Bloomberg *Table of ContentsForeword —by Michael Bloomberg Introduction Chapter 1. July 21, 1961 Chapter 2. The Lost Generation Finds Its Way Chapter 3. Creating My Own Politics Chapter 4. Two Six-Year-Olds Chapter 5. The Choice for Change Chapter 6. Now What? Chapter 7. Grand Ideas Chapter 8. Expanding Economic Opportunity Chapter 9. Education Chapter 10. Making Neighborhoods Safe Chapter 11. Investing in Our Future Chapter 12. Designing a Sustainable City Chapter 13. Fostering Arts and Culture Conclusion Index Acknowledgments

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