Planning Books

New and Published Books

1. Cities and Nature

   2nd Edition

   By Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Ethical Planning Practitioner

   By Jerry Weitz

   If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them—even if the planner pays for them? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing...

   Published May 13th 2013 by APA Planners Press
3. Underground. The Way to the Future

   Edited by Georg Anagnostou, Heinz Ehrbar

   Underground – the way to the future was the motto of the World Tunnel Congress 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. The use of underground space has gained importance during the last years due to the tremendous global urbanization, the high demand on transportation capacities and energy production. All...

   Published May 13th 2013 by CRC Press
4. Sustainable Rural Development

   Sustainable livelihoods and the Community Capitals Framework

   Edited by Mary Emery, Isabel Gutierrez-Montes, Edith Fernandez-Baca

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development. By focusing on these approaches to community change, the volume hopes to encourage...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Volume 5

   Edited by Michael Hibbard, Robert Freestone, Tore Øivin Sager

   Series: Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning. The...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
6. Social Vulnerability to Disasters, Second Edition

   Edited by Deborah S.K. Thomas, Brenda D. Phillips, William E. Lovekamp, Alice Fothergill

   The 2010 Haiti and Chili earthquakes, the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami in Japan are but a few examples of recent catastrophic events that continue to reveal how social structure and roles produce extensive human suffering and differential...

   Published May 8th 2013 by CRC Press
7. Metropolitan Problems

   By S. Miles

   Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a conference held in toronto in 1967. In the early...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Third World Urbanization

   By J. Abu-Lughod, R. Jr Hay

   This book was first published in 1977....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. Pre-Colombian Cities

   By Jorge Enrique Hardoy

   What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Urban Community

    A World Perspective

    By Nels Andersen

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    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge