Big Places Big Plans

Author : Mark B. Lapping
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351162500

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Big Places, Big Plans by Mark B. Lapping Pdf

With origins in the late 1960s, a 'quiet revolution' in land use planning and control has taken hold across North America. First seen as a manifestation of the environmental movement, the revolution prompted governments at several levels to attempt to protect critical areas and vulnerable natural resources. Many of the most dramatic and far-reaching shifts in planning regimes have occurred in large-scale, environmentally unique or sensitive regions. It is these big places, looming large in the American and Canadian psyches, that are the focus of this edited volume. Each of the chapters reflects on the contemporary challenge of environmental and land use planning. Ten leading distinguished scholars here provide thoughtful analyses and critical insights into the processes and contexts shaping the innovative planning and policy schemes in seven regional landscapes.

Author : Kenneth L. Kolson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 080187730X

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Big Plans by Kenneth L. Kolson Pdf

This work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part serendipity plays in urban experience.

Author : Tom Daniels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351177559

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Environmental Planning Handbook by Tom Daniels Pdf

Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their water pure, and their people and property safe from climate and environmental hazards? Newly updated, The Environmental Planning Handbook gives local governments, nonprofits, and citizens the guidance they need to create an action plan they can implement now. It’s essential reading for a post-Katrina, post-Sandy world.

Author : Christopher Coutts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317124382

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Growth Management and Public Land Acquisition by Christopher Coutts Pdf

Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA. Both public land acquisition programs and state and local growth management efforts have been examined in detail, but while there is growing recognition that land acquisition can play an important role in smart growth outcomes, there has so far been little research into the nexus of these areas of public policy. This book investigates various aspects of the land acquisition-smart growth linkage and describes model programs and makes recommendations for the adoption of land acquisition efforts nationally and internationally. It will appeal to practising planners, policy makers, public officials, and citizen groups, as well as academics of urban planning, environmental studies, geography and other disciplines which examine issues of urban sprawl.

Author : Power, Anne,Houghton, John
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781861346599

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Jigsaw Cities by Power, Anne,Houghton, John Pdf

Looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, this title explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal.

Author : Alex Bozikovic,Cheryll Case,John Lorinc,Annabel Vaughan
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770565937

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House Divided by Alex Bozikovic,Cheryll Case,John Lorinc,Annabel Vaughan Pdf

Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects “stable” residential neighborhoods with high property values. House Divided is a citizen’s guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this anthology unpacks the affordability crisis and offers innovative ideas for creating housing for all ages and demographic groups. With charts, maps, data, and policy prescriptions, House Divided poses tough questions about the issue that will make or break the global city of the future.

Author : John C. Bergstrom,Stephen J Goetz,James S. Shortle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135996123

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Land Use Problems and Conflicts by John C. Bergstrom,Stephen J Goetz,James S. Shortle Pdf

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens are starting to realize that many environmental and economic issues have the question of land use at their very core. Comprising papers from a conference sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, Land Use Problems and Conflicts draws together some of the most up-to-date research in this area. Sections are devoted to problems in the United States and Europe, the consequences of such problems, land use-related data and alternative solutions to conflict. With a lineup including some of the best scholarship on this subject to date, this volume will be of use to those studying environmental and land use issues in addition to policy makers and economists.

Author : Jordan Yin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118100233

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Urban Planning For Dummies by Jordan Yin Pdf

How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including studying community demographics, determining the best uses for land, planning economic and transportation development, and implementing plans. Following an introductory course on urban planning, this book is key reading for any urban planning student or anyone involved in urban development. With new studies conclusively demonstrating the dramatic impact of urban design on public psychological and physical health, the impact of the urban planner on a community is immense. And with a wide range of positions for urban planners in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors—including law firms, utility companies, and real estate development firms—having a fundamental understanding of urban planning is key to anyone even considering entry into this field. This book provides a useful introduction and lays the groundwork for serious study. Helps readers understand the essentials of this complex profession Written by a certified practicing urban planner, with extensive practical and community-outreach experience For anyone interested in being in the vanguard of building, designing, and shaping tomorrow's sustainable city, Urban Planning For Dummies offers an informative, entirely accessible introduction on learning how.

Author : Robert J. Mason
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742547019

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Collaborative Land Use Management by Robert J. Mason Pdf

Collaborative Land-Use Management: The Quieter Revolution in Place-Based Planning discusses the less-regulatory approaches to land-use management that have emerged over the past 35 years, analyzing the collective value of such place-based planning approaches as land trusts, open-space ballot measures, watershed conservancies, ecoregional plans, and smart-growth initiatives. Collaborative Land-Use Management appraises these trends from physical, social, economic, civic, and environmental justice perspectives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : PURD:32754075936389

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Federal Design Matters by Anonim Pdf

Author : L. Anders Sandberg,Gerda R. Wekerle,Liette Gilbert
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781442613027

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The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles by L. Anders Sandberg,Gerda R. Wekerle,Liette Gilbert Pdf

The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen activism on the Moraine's future in the face of rapid urban expansion. The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles captures the hidden aspects of a story that received a great deal of attention in the local and national news, and that ultimately led to provincial legislation aimed at protecting the Moraine and Ontario's Greenbelt. By giving voice to a range of actors – residents, activists, civil servants, scientists, developers and aggregate and other resource users, the book demonstrates how space on the urban periphery was reshaped in the Toronto region. The authors ask hard questions about who is included and excluded when the preservation of nature challenges the relentless process of urbanization.

Author : Michael Ripmeester,Phillip Gordon Mackintosh,Christopher Fullerton
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781554584055

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The World of Niagara Wine by Michael Ripmeester,Phillip Gordon Mackintosh,Christopher Fullerton Pdf

The World of Niagara Wine is a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry. In the first section, contributors explore the history and regulation of wine production as well as its contemporary economic significance. The second section focuses on the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketing of Niagara wines. The third introduces readers to the science of grape growing, wine tasting, and wine production, and the final section examines the social and cultural ramifications of Niagara’s increasing reliance on grapes and wine as an economic motor for the region. The original research in this book celebrates and critiques the local wine industry and situates it in a complex web of Old World traditions and New World reliance on technology, science, and taste as well as global processes and local sociocultural reactions. Preface by Konrad Ejbich.

Author : Blake A. Harrison
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Rural tourism
ISBN : 1584655917

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The View from Vermont by Blake A. Harrison Pdf

With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.

Author : Greg Halseth,Sean Patrick Markey,David Bruce
Publisher : CABI
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845935818

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The Next Rural Economies by Greg Halseth,Sean Patrick Markey,David Bruce Pdf

This book discusses the future of rural development and the recognition of the growing importance of 'place-based economies' where the unique attributes and assets of individual places determine their attractiveness for particular types of activities and investments. New understandings of competitiveness and conceptualizations of a new economy underline the importance of making strategic investments in community infrastructure. Doing things, at the local and regional scales, matters and not doing things has consequences. Topics include seasonal economies, amenity migration, IT industries, green energy and transportation developments.

Author : Kenneth B. Beesley
Publisher : Rural Development Institute
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Land use, Rural
ISBN : 9781895397826

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The Rural-urban Fringe in Canada by Kenneth B. Beesley Pdf