Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Housing and Planning References
Author: Town Planning and Pollution Control
Author: Christopher WoodPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719007842
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John FriendPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135120072
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their capacity to choose discriminatingly, when the sheer complexity of the issues facing them tends all the time to make them increasingly dependent on the skills and judgements of their professional advisers. This question is explored in relation to the many different, yet interdependent, aspects of the planning process which impinge on any local community – with particular reference to the planning of housing, transport, education, and shopping, of land use and local government finance. The book is the outcome of a four-year program of research during which a mixed team of operational research and social scientists was given a unique opportunity to observe the ways in which decisions were made and plans formulated in one particular city- Coventry. It covers both political and professional aspects of local government in 1960s Great Britain and has had important implications for urban governments throughout the world.
Geography and Retailing
Author: Peter ScottPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202366278
Category : Central places
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
"An important contribution to our understanding of the distribution of retail activities, particularly within cities, this book provides a critical review of the literature on the subject. It points out the major general propositions concerning retailing from the geographical point of view, and identifies key research problems, which need to be examined in order to push forward the frontiers of this sub field of economic geography. It presents a major critique of the central-place model, which has come to hold an important place in the methodology of economic geography, and clearly and decisively shows the model to be static, deterministic, retrospective and of little value for predictive purposes."--Provided by publisher.
Local Government and Strategic Choice
Author: J.K. FriendPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483136434
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Local Government and Strategic Choice, Second Edition is the result of a study of policy-formation in the City Council of Coventry during a four-year period. This edition is a reappraisal of the earlier edition, with an emphasis on ""connective planning."" Part I describes the planning strategies made in an urban setting. This part explains the City and the City Council, organization of the local authority, decision-making mechanisms, developmental planning including land use, school system planning, and cross-departmental planning. Part II is a study of city planning as a process of strategic choice that has been altered in many different ways depending on the purpose. This part also discusses the problems encountered in the planning process such as the existence of organization boundaries in the government sector. Part III deals with a fictional case that relates the uncertainties and political realities of decision-making in an urban setting. The case studies cover land allocation and development, tax, and traffic issues. Part IV discusses organizational challenge and also touches in some way on the future organizational structure of local governments. This text then explains the need for ""connective planning"" of how individuals build flexible networks among decision-making agencies to serve the various interests of both the private and government sectors. This book is suitable for sociologists, city administrators and officials, local government officials, heads of government agencies, and heads of planning and engineering departments of local government units.
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Journey to Work--modal Split
Author: Frank Richard WilsonPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Engineering the Development of Coventry
Author: Brian RedknapPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
An Analysis of Retail Trade Districts Within Selected British and American Seaside Resorts
Author: Charles Arthur StansfieldPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Retail trade
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Author: Arthur G. Ling