While Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods provides a unique and comprehensive exploration of housing and planning from 1900 through to the present, it is more than a history of ideas and debates. Drawn from an eclectically wide range of information sources, it puts forward a lively and readable account..
Housing Market Renewal and Social Class critically examines the rationale for housing market renewal: to develop ‘high value’ housing markets in place of so-called ‘failing markets’ of low cost housing...
Focusing on the post-socialist, postwar, and neoliberal transitions experienced in BiH, the book shows that planning systems deviated from control-oriented and top-down regulation to flexible approaches for more open for informal development...
This comprehensive reference book updates the popular, pioneering works on impact fees by introducing new methodologies, concepts, applications, and theories...
New Zealand’s Resource Management Act was the first and most extensive attempt to institute sustainability at a national level, covering all resources from land to water. This book provides a comprehensive account of the challenges of implementing sustainability. It offers a practitioner’s insight i..
Infrastucture Planning and Finance provides a non-technical overview of the engineering, planning and financing aspects of local level infrastructure for planners, engineers and other local officials who need to work with specialized professionals. It also gives basic "how to do it" information alon..
This book address key issues of understanding in contemporary economic geography and local economic policy making in cities and regions in the advanced economies...
This third volume in the series examines the scope and nature of modern town planning in greater depth. It investigates the theories and preoccupations which inform the current planning agenda, compares this with earlier objectives, and discusses likely future trends...