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Big Places, Big Plans

Author : Mark B. Lapping
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351162500
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Big Places, Big Plans written by Mark B. Lapping and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With origins in the late 1960s, a 'quiet revolution' in land use planning and control has taken hold across North America. First seen as a manifestation of the environmental movement, the revolution prompted governments at several levels to attempt to protect critical areas and vulnerable natural resources. Many of the most dramatic and far-reaching shifts in planning regimes have occurred in large-scale, environmentally unique or sensitive regions. It is these big places, looming large in the American and Canadian psyches, that are the focus of this edited volume. Each of the chapters reflects on the contemporary challenge of environmental and land use planning. Ten leading distinguished scholars here provide thoughtful analyses and critical insights into the processes and contexts shaping the innovative planning and policy schemes in seven regional landscapes.

Big Plans

Author : Kenneth L. Kolson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801877308
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Big Plans written by Kenneth L. Kolson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part serendipity plays in urban experience.

Environmental Planning Handbook

Author : Tom Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351177559
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Planning Handbook written by Tom Daniels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their water pure, and their people and property safe from climate and environmental hazards? Newly updated, The Environmental Planning Handbook gives local governments, nonprofits, and citizens the guidance they need to create an action plan they can implement now. It’s essential reading for a post-Katrina, post-Sandy world.

Meeting Places of Transformation

Author : Thomas Born
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3898217396
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Meeting Places of Transformation written by Thomas Born and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened to the urban spaces of everyday life when the Soviet Union collapsed? And how may this change be understood? Based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in post-Soviet Russia, this study draws upon time-geographic, social and semiotic theory to formulate a model of how urban space is formed. Mirrored through the case of Ligovo/Uritsk, a high-rise residential district situated on the outskirts of Sankt-Peterburg (St Petersburg), the changing relation between the lifeworlds of people and the system of governance is highlighted with regard to the transformation of Soviet and Russian society over the last decades. The empirical material presented here documents a number of processes within urban identity formation, spatial representations and local politics. The resulting findings add both empirically and theoretically to the knowledge of urban cultural geography in Russia—a field of research that until recently was closed to Western researchers, and seems currently to be closing again.The book will be of interest to researchers with an interest in social, semiotic and geographic theory as well as to students and researchers of cultural and urban studies, urban life and Russian affairs. The study could be also helpful to professionals working in fields related to post-Soviet urban identity, spatial representations and local politics.

Growth Management and Public Land Acquisition

Author : Christopher Coutts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317124391
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Growth Management and Public Land Acquisition written by Christopher Coutts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA. Both public land acquisition programs and state and local growth management efforts have been examined in detail, but while there is growing recognition that land acquisition can play an important role in smart growth outcomes, there has so far been little research into the nexus of these areas of public policy. This book investigates various aspects of the land acquisition-smart growth linkage and describes model programs and makes recommendations for the adoption of land acquisition efforts nationally and internationally. It will appeal to practising planners, policy makers, public officials, and citizen groups, as well as academics of urban planning, environmental studies, geography and other disciplines which examine issues of urban sprawl.

House Divided

Author : Alex Bozikovic
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770565930
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book House Divided written by Alex Bozikovic and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects “stable” residential neighborhoods with high property values. House Divided is a citizen’s guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this anthology unpacks the affordability crisis and offers innovative ideas for creating housing for all ages and demographic groups. With charts, maps, data, and policy prescriptions, House Divided poses tough questions about the issue that will make or break the global city of the future.

Jigsaw Cities

Author : Anne Power
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 186134659X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Jigsaw Cities written by Anne Power and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, this title explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal.

Land Use Problems and Conflicts

Author : John C. Bergstrom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135996121
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Land Use Problems and Conflicts written by John C. Bergstrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens are starting to realize that many environmental and economic issues have the question of land use at their very core. Comprising papers from a conference sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, Land Use Problems and Conflicts draws together some of the most up-to-date research in this area. Sections are devoted to problems in the United States and Europe, the consequences of such problems, land use-related data and alternative solutions to conflict. With a lineup including some of the best scholarship on this subject to date, this volume will be of use to those studying environmental and land use issues in addition to policy makers and economists.

Urban Planning For Dummies

Author : Jordan Yin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118100239
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Urban Planning For Dummies written by Jordan Yin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including studying community demographics, determining the best uses for land, planning economic and transportation development, and implementing plans. Following an introductory course on urban planning, this book is key reading for any urban planning student or anyone involved in urban development. With new studies conclusively demonstrating the dramatic impact of urban design on public psychological and physical health, the impact of the urban planner on a community is immense. And with a wide range of positions for urban planners in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors—including law firms, utility companies, and real estate development firms—having a fundamental understanding of urban planning is key to anyone even considering entry into this field. This book provides a useful introduction and lays the groundwork for serious study. Helps readers understand the essentials of this complex profession Written by a certified practicing urban planner, with extensive practical and community-outreach experience For anyone interested in being in the vanguard of building, designing, and shaping tomorrow's sustainable city, Urban Planning For Dummies offers an informative, entirely accessible introduction on learning how.

Federal Design Matters

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Federal Design Matters written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collaborative Land Use Management

Author : Robert J. Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742547018
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Collaborative Land Use Management written by Robert J. Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative Land-Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning discusses the less-regulatory approaches to land-use management that have emerged over the past 35 years, analyzing the collective value of such place-based planning approaches as land trusts, open-space ballot measures, watershed conservancies, ecoregional plans, and smart-growth initiatives. Collaborative Land-Use Management appraises these trends from physical, social, economic, civic, and environmental justice perspectives.

The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles

Author : L. Anders Sandberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442666536
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles written by L. Anders Sandberg and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen activism on the Moraine’s future in the face of rapid urban expansion. The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles captures the hidden aspects of a story that received a great deal of attention in the local and national news, and that ultimately led to provincial legislation aimed at protecting the Moraine and Ontario’s Greenbelt. By giving voice to a range of actors – residents, activists, civil servants, scientists, developers and aggregate and other resource users, the book demonstrates how space on the urban periphery was reshaped in the Toronto region. The authors ask hard questions about who is included and excluded when the preservation of nature challenges the relentless process of urbanization.

The World of Niagara Wine

Author : Michael Ripmeester
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554584051
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book The World of Niagara Wine written by Michael Ripmeester and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of Niagara Wine is a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry. In the first section, contributors explore the history and regulation of wine production as well as its contemporary economic significance. The second section focuses on the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketing of Niagara wines. The third introduces readers to the science of grape growing, wine tasting, and wine production, and the final section examines the social and cultural ramifications of Niagara’s increasing reliance on grapes and wine as an economic motor for the region. The original research in this book celebrates and critiques the local wine industry and situates it in a complex web of Old World traditions and New World reliance on technology, science, and taste as well as global processes and local sociocultural reactions. Preface by Konrad Ejbich.

The View from Vermont

Author : Blake A. Harrison
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655916
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The View from Vermont written by Blake A. Harrison and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.

The Next Rural Economies

Author : Greg Halseth
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845935810
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Next Rural Economies written by Greg Halseth and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the future of rural development and the recognition of the growing importance of 'place-based economies' where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their attractiveness for particular types of activities and investments. New understandings of competitiveness and conceptualizations of a new economy underline the importance of making strategic investments in community infrastructure. Doing things, at the local and regional scales, matters and not doing things has consequences. Topics include seasonal economies, amenity migration, IT industries, green energy and transportation developments.

The Rural-urban Fringe in Canada

Author : Kenneth B. Beesley
Publisher : Rural Development Institute
ISBN 13 : 1895397820
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Rural-urban Fringe in Canada written by Kenneth B. Beesley and published by Rural Development Institute. This book was released on 2010 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design

Author : S.T.A. Pickett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400753411
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design written by S.T.A. Pickett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative urban design, as urban areas exemplify complex systems. With something approaching half of the world’s population now residing in coastal urban zones, many of which are vulnerable both to floods originating inland and rising sea levels, making urban areas more robust in the face of environmental threats must be a policy ambition of the highest priority. The complexity of urban areas results from their spatial heterogeneity, their intertwined material and energy fluxes, and the integration of social and natural processes. All of these features can be altered by intentional planning and design. The complex, integrated suite of urban structures and processes together affect the adaptive resilience of urban systems, but also presupposes that planners can intervene in positive ways. As examples accumulate of linkage between sustainability and building/landscape design, such as the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park and Toronto’s Lower Don River area, this book unites the ideas, data, and insights of ecologists and related scientists with those of urban designers. It aims to integrate a formerly atomized dialog to help both disciplines promote urban resilience.