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“hugh barton”

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  • City of Well-being

    A radical guide to planning

    by Hugh Barton ...
    City of Well-being provides a radical and holistic introduction to the science and art of town planning. It starts from the premise that the purpose of planning is the health, well-being and sustainable quality of life of people. Drawing on current and historic examples it offers inspiration, information and an integrated perspective which challenges all professions and decision-makers that affect ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Sustainable Communities

    The Potential for Eco-Neighbourhoods

    by Hugh Barton ...
    'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way. It will be of immense benefit, not only to town planners but also to al those professional and voluntary groups and politicians who seek to create the new communities of tomorrow'From the Foreword by Jed Griffiths, Past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute.There is widespread support ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing

    by Hugh Barton, Noel Bruder ...
    Sustainable development is still seen by authorities as an abstract concept. Local Environmental Auditing will help put it into practice.The book provides a comprehensive guide to monitoring the state of the local environment and establishing the impacts of local actions on global issues, and shows how current local authority policy and practice can be adapted to recognize environmental priorities ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Healthy Urban Planning

    by Hugh Barton, Catherine Tsourou ...
    Healthy Urban Planning aims to refocus urban planners on the implications of their work for human health and well-being. If many of the problems faced in cities are to be resolved, improving health will be the fundamental goal of urban planners. Poor housing, poverty, stress, pollution, and lack of access to jobs, goods and services all impact upon health. This book provides practical advice on ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being

    Shaping a sustainable and healthy future

    Edited by Hugh Barton, Susan Thompson, Sarah Burgess, Marcus Grant ...
    Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles. Worldwide health issues such as obesity, mental illness, growing health inequalities and climate vulnerability cannot be solved solely by medicines but also by tackling the social, economic and environmental determinants. In a time when unhealthy and unsustainable ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • How to Kill a City

    Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

    by PE Moskowitz ...
    “An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century

    The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities

    Edited by Richard Hanley ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Design After Decline

    How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

    by Brent D. Ryan ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design

    Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference

    Edited by Juval Portugali, Egbert Stolk ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines – complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist – addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a first step in responding to the challenge of generating just such a discourse, based on a dilemma identified in ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Landform - Structure, Evolution, Process Control

    Proceedings of the International Symposium on Landform organised by the Research Training Group 437

    Edited by Jan-Christoph Otto, Richard Dikau ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Prof. Richard Dikau has a full professorship at the department of geography. His scientific focus includesthe study of geomorphology, geomorphometry, permafrost research and natural hazards. From 1998–2007 he was the chair of the interdisciplinary research training group 437 “Landform – a structured and variable boundary layer”.Dr. Jan-Christoph Otto works on high mountain geomorphology and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Infrastructure Delivery Planning

    An Effective Practice Approach

    by Janice Morphet ...
    This important text book is the first to be written about infrastructure planning in Britain. Written by an experienced author, the book reviews the rapid rise in the use of infrastructure delivery planning at national and neighbourhood level. The key components of infrastructure delivery are set out and analysed, including the development of government policy, planning regulation, funding, ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Whose Land Is Our Land?

    The Use and Abuse of Britain's Forgotten Acres

    by Peter Hetherington ...
    Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying up thousands of acres annually to avoid tax. If planning permission is given for new housing, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD