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“michael gunder”

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  • Planning in Ten Words or Less

    A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning

    by Michael Gunder, Jean Hillier ...
    This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights that these terms, and others, are mere 'empty signifiers', meaning everything and nothing. Based on ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory

    Edited by Michael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa Watson ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.In a changing and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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  • Reinventing Brantford

    A University Comes Downtown

    by Leo Groarke ...
    Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s AwardOne hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." ... Read more

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  • Decentralization, Democracy And Development: Recent Experience From Sierra Leone

    by Zhou Yongmei ...
    The question of whether political, fiscal, and administrative decentralization improves government effectiveness is hotly debated among researchers and policy makers. Decentralization, Democracy, and Development contributes to the empirical literature on decentralization and the debate on whether it is a viable and desirable state-building strategy for post-conflict countries.This book is a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • City Design

    Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

    by Jonathan Barnett ...
    City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Sustainable Livelihood Approach

    A Critique of Theory and Practice

    by Stephen Morse, Nora McNamara ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Alternative Types of Roundabouts

    An Informational Guide

    by Tomaž Tollazzi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents a history of roundabouts, an introduction to their design, calculations of their capacity and traffic-safety features. It describes the key features of standard roundabouts and their limitations. Alternative types of roundabouts are a fairly recent development and have only been implemented in a few countries to date. The book illustrates a broad variety of these recent ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development

    Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe

    Edited by Abdelillah Hamdouch, Torill Nyseth, Christophe Demaziere, Anniken Førde, José Serrano, Nils Aarsæther ...
    This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities and on metropolitan regions, there has been relatively little work on ‘smaller places’.This book ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Future of the Suburban City

    Lessons from Sustaining Phoenix

    by Grady Gammage, Jr. ...
    There exists a category of American cities in which the line between suburban and urban is almost impossible to locate. These suburban cities arose in the last half of twentieth-century America, based largely on the success of the single-family home, shopping centers, and the automobile. The low-density, auto-centric development of suburban cities, which are largely in the arid West, presents ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Urban Water Trajectories

    Edited by Sarah Bell, Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann, Tse-Hui Teh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD