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  1. Kitchen Table Sustainability

    Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability

    By Wendy Sarkissian, with Nancy Hofer, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda, Cathy Wilkinson

    Series: Earthscan Tools for Community Planning

    Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world. This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from...

    Published November 9th 2008 by Routledge

  2. The Community Planning Event Manual

    How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

    By Nick Wates, Nick Wates, John Thompson

    Series: Earthscan Tools for Community Planning

    Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have...

    Published July 31st 2008 by Routledge

  3. Planning and Decentralization

    Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South

    Edited by Victoria A. Beard, Faranak Miraftab, Christopher Silver

    The first in-depth study of the impact of economic and political decentralization on planning practice in developing economies, this innovative volume, using original case study research by leading experts drawn from diverse fields of inquiry, from planning to urban studies, geography and economics...

    Published June 3rd 2008 by Routledge

  4. Design for Diversity

    By Emily Talen

    The city is more than just a sum of its buildings; it is the sum of its communities. The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse – in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity – and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity...

    Published January 22nd 2008 by Routledge

  5. Designing Community

    By David Walters

    Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities. In America, design charrettes (intensive design and planning workshops) have become widely used as a means of...

    Published April 3rd 2007 by Routledge

  6. Urban Planning

    Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk....

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

  7. Urban Planning

    Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further information on this collection please email info.research@routledge.co.uk....

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

  8. Urban Planning Methods

    Research and Policy Analysis

    By Ian Bracken

    In order to develop and exercise their skills urban planners need to draw upon a wide variety of methods relating to plan and policy making, urban research and policy analysis. More than ever, planners need to be able to adapt their methods to contemporary needs and circumstances. This introductory...

    Published December 20th 2006 by Routledge

  9. Planning the Good Community

    New Urbanism in Theory and Practice

    By Jill Grant

    Series: RTPI Library Series

    An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities. With examples drawn principally from North America,...

    Published November 16th 2005 by Routledge

  10. Crime Opportunity Profiling of Streets (COPS)

    A Quick Analysis - Rapid Implementation Approach (FB 12)

    By J Oxley

    This report is an evaluated overview of European practices for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), and focuses on exemplars formed into a toolkit of crime and anti-social behaviour prevention strategies....

    Published November 1st 2005 by IHS BRE Press