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“heather ritchie”

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  • The Essential Guide to Planning Law

    Decision-Making and Practice in the UK

    by Adam Sheppard, Heather Ritchie, Deborah Peel, Sophie Berry ...
    This comprehensive yet concise textbook is the first to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. Giving students essential background and contextual information to planning’s statutory basis, the information is supported by practical and applied discussion to help students understand planning in the real world. The book is written in an accessible style, enabling ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Smart Cities in the Mediterranean

    Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities

    Edited by Anastasia Stratigea, Elias Kyriakides, Chrysses Nicolaides ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Global Cities

    A Short History

    by Greg Clark ...
    Series series The Short Histories
    Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century, the number of truly global cities is greater than ever before, reflecting the globalization of both economic ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Canadian Perspectives on Immigration in Small Cities

    Edited by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Julie L. Drolet ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines immigration to small cities throughout Canada. It explores the distinct challenges brought about by the influx of people to urban communities which typically have less than 100,000 residents.The essays are organized into four main sections: partnerships, resources, and capacities; identities, belonging, and social networks; health, politics, and diversity, and Francophone ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sense of Place

    A History of Irish Planning

    by Sean O'Leary ...
    The modern Irish planning system was introduced on 1 October 1964, when the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 came into force 'to make provision, in the interests of the common good, for the proper planning and development of cities, towns and other areas'. Given the popular image of a post-Celtic-Tiger landscape haunted by ghost estates, ongoing efforts to address the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Research of Cities

    A Case of Chengdu

    by Peter Taylor, Kai Liu, Pengfei Ni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu’s development into a global city. To do so, it adopts both external and internal perspectives: externally, it highlights Chengdu’s agglomeration and linkage so as to identify the differences in its overall development in comparison with other world ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Urban Livelihoods

    A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty

    by Tony Lloyd-Jones, Carole Rakodi ...
    One of the most promising approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor. This takes account of their opportunities and assets and the sources of their vulnerability. Based on recent and extensive research, this volume thoroughly assesses the value of the livelihoods approach to urban poverty. The book reviews the situation and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

    Edited by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and productive experiences of urban life.The phrase ‘city imaging’ is often used in public discourse, but ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Structure and Dynamics of Cities

    Urban Data Analysis and Theoretical Modeling

    by Marc Barthelemy ...
    With over half of the world's population now living in urban areas, the ability to model and understand the structure and dynamics of cities is becoming increasingly valuable. Combining new data with tools and concepts from statistical physics and urban economics, this book presents a modern and interdisciplinary perspective on cities and urban systems. Both empirical observations and theoretical ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

  • Moving Objects Management

    Models, Techniques and Applications

    by Xiaofeng Meng, Zhiming Ding, Jiajie Xu ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Applications, 2nd Edition focuses on moving object management, from the location management perspective to determining how constantly changing locations affect the traditional database and data mining technology. The book specifically describes the topics of moving objects modeling and location tracking, indexing and querying, clustering, location uncertainty, traffic-aware navigation and privacy ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ecoregions

    The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents

    by Robert G. Bailey ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Global warming and human-driven impacts are changing the World’s ecological zones. This book applies the principles described in Bailey’s Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, 2nd ed. (Springer 2009, 1st ed. 1996) to describe and characterize the major terrestrial and aquatic ecological zones of the Earth. Bailey’s system for classifying these zones has been adopted by major organizations ... Read more

    $62.99 USD