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Category : City planning
Languages : en
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Town of Union Comprehensive Plan, 2005-2015
Union Comprehensive Plan
Author: Union Comprehensive Planning Committee (Union, Me.)Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Comprehensive Plan, Duchesne City, Utah
Author: Duchesne (Utah). Planning CommissionPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Draft Program Environmental Impact Report for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Water System Improvement Program
Author: The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice
Author: Malo André HutsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317595564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents. It documents these populations’ efforts to remain in their communities and highlights how this leads to community organizing around economic, environmental, and social justice. The book shows how residents of once-neglected urban communities are standing up to city economic development agencies, influential real estate developers, universities, and others to remain in their neighbourhoods, protect their interests, and transform their communities into sustainable, healthy communities. These communities are deploying new strategies that build off of past struggles over urban renewal. Based on seven years of research, this book draws on a wealth of material to conduct a case study analysis of eight low-income/mixed-income communities in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. This timely book is aimed at researchers and postgraduate students interested in urban policy and politics, community development, urban studies, environmental justice, urban public health, sociology, community-based research methods, and urban planning theory and practice. It will also be of interest to policy makers, community activists, and the private sector.
Annual Report
Author: Bay-Lake Regional Planning CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Smaller Cities in a World of Competitiveness
Author: Peter Karl KreslPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317539761
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the ‘global city’ but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities, with populations in excess of 10 million. This analysis has begged the question of the optimal size for a city – is larger always better? Smaller Cities explores the advantages and disadvantages of different sized cities, trying to determine their place in the global economy and hierarchy. How can smaller cities gain or retain their competitiveness in a world of large cities? In a globalized world, the nation has perhaps been diminished as an economic actor, with fiscal shortcomings and political gridlock leaving cities more or less on their own in the task of enhancing their competitiveness and improving the economic lives of their residents. This book argues that smaller cities of varying population can be important actors in competitiveness and aims to bring attention to an area often overlooked by researchers. In short, are Pittsburgh, San Diego and Austin less competitive than London and Mumbai? This volume will be of interest to students, researchers, and city professionals who work in urban economy and urban geography.
Rural by Design
Author: Randall ArendtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351177567
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
For America’s rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt meets them in an entirely new edition of Rural by Design. When this planning classic first appeared 20 years ago, it showed how creative, practical land-use planning can preserve open space and keep community character intact. The second edition shifts the focus toward infilling neighborhoods, strengthening town centers, and moving development closer to schools, shops, and jobs. New chapters cover form-based codes, visioning, sustainability, low-impact development, green infrastructure, and more, while 70 case studies show how these ideas play out in the real world. Readers —rural or not—will find practical advice about planning for the way we live now.
California High-speed Train System
Author: The Future Internet
Author: Jenifer WinterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331922994X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Readers seeking to gain a handle on the internet's global expansion will find this book rich in scholarly foundations combined with cutting-edge discussion of emerging ICTs and services and the complex societal contexts in which they are embedded. To explore possibilities to the fullest extent, a sociotechnical systems approach is employed, focusing on the interplay of technical, social, cultural, political, and economic dynamics to explore alternative futures (ones that are not part of the dominant discourse about the internet). These shared perspectives are not well addressed elsewhere in current discussions. Awareness of these dynamics, and the fluidity of the future, is important, as humankind moves forward into the uncertain future. Due to the sociotechnical complexity of the Internet, policymakers, businesspeople, and academics worldwide have struggled to keep abreast of developments. This volume's approach is intended to stimulate dialogue between academics and practitioners on a topic that will affect most aspects of human life in the near-term future.