“The Renaissance City” is a book by Giulio Carlo Argan that delves into the theories of city planning that emerged in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book provides an il…
This is a report of an experiment in interdisciplinary education for environmental planning recently carried out at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It represents an attempt to use a studio c…
The book India's Changing Villages explores the social, economic, and cultural transformations occurring in India's villages. S. C. Dube analyzes how modernization, industrialization, and urbanizat…
Written for contractors and endorsed by the Associated General Contractors of America Written specifically for contractors, this "how-to" book enables you to meet the challenges of green building c…
The book A Human Approach to Urban Planning emphasizes the importance of a human-centered approach in urban planning. Georges Meyer Heine argues that urban planning should consider the social, psyc…
The book Power, Poverty, and Urban Policy explores the relationship between power, poverty, and urban policy in the United States. It examines how local and national power structures influence the …
The World Wide Web has revealed the immense value and broad applicability of GIS, set the bar for today's user expectations, and introduced flexible architectures for use with modern IT infrastruct…
The state of urban political analysis today is almost-not quite as disquieting as the state of the cities themselves. Political scientists can lend sympathetic ears, but they have not yet developed…
The book Managing Cities in Developing Countries: The Theory and Practice of Urban Management provides an in-depth analysis of urban management in developing countries, focusing on relevant theorie…
Small businesses face many challenges today, including the increasing demand by larger companies for ISO compliance. Compliance is a challenging task for any organisation and can often be time cons…