Product Description: Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban areas...read more

Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable to provide satisfactory policy responses in the future. Key themes debated include: * widening the remit of traditional town planning * giving land and buildings a community value * acting for people rather than simply for the market * promoting an equalization of environmental conditions and discouragement of motorization * the need to anticipate long term global trends at the local and national level. Contributors: Andrew Blowers, Bob Colenutt, Richard Cowell, Bob Evans, Cliff Hague, Peter Hall, Susan Owens, Eric Reade, Yvonne Rydin.

Key academics and professionals explore how social and environmental justice within and between nations need to be part of the policies and agreements underpinning sustainable development. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: A complete study, including illustrations, on all the Latin rhythms.

Product Description: A complete study, including illustrations, on all the Latin rhythms. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If you collect any type of World War II militaria you will sooner or later come across a Nazi buckle. If you are fascinated by the artwork and the quality of construction or you want to know what it is worth, you need this book for your militaria library...read more

Product Description: A SOCCER MANUAL FOR PLAYERS, PARENTS, COACHES AND REFEREES Off-side is the most controversial law in soccer. It is complicated. It is tough to interpret. It is difficult to teach. But it is the most important, the most far reaching, and ...read more

Product Description: Critically assesses the concept of sustainability and the way in which it is used as a basis for environmental planning. The book, which brings together authors from a wide range of professional and academic disciplines, argues that national environmental planning is reactive and ad hoc, and calls for a wider ranging refocusing of environmental planning based on reliable and consistent data collection, equitable public participation and a well-debated understanding of sustainability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work on town planning offers a detailed study of the profession. It covers class theories; the nature of expert labour and professionalism; the ways in which planning serves the public interest; the planners themselves; and various approaches to the subject of town planning...read more

The colorful and biologically diverse world of the reef is presented with illustrations of the flora and fauna native to the shallow ocean waters of coastal California