Development of the urban environment has to be planned and managed if the best use is to be made of the available land, financial resources, and building talent. The creation, redevelopment, or ext…
Faced with the challenge of making the English village of Chew Magna a zero waste society, John Pontin and his Converging World program developed a groundbreaking non-profit scheme that twinned the…
Papers read by experts and reports on the situation in the various countries represented in the meeting helped to identify the situation and to pronounce problems and demands. - Meetings in working…
On October 27, 1967, in a context of increasing concern about the future of international cooperation for economic development, the then President of the World Bank, Mr. George Woods, suggested a "…
-Achieving Sustainable Communities in a Global Economy explores the intersection of sustainable community development and the global economy, offering a detailed analysis of the challenges and oppo…
Development in Theory & Practice explores the evolution of development theories and their practical application in addressing the challenges faced by developing countries. The book provides a compr…
In Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns, Clifford Geertz provides a detailed analysis of the interplay between social structures and economic transformations in two distin…
This book provides an introduction an introduction to this important topic and suggests a way forward to a coherent structure, together with techniques which will enable progress to be assessed. Th…
"In recent years, the term 'environmentally sustainable development' has acquired motherhood status. Everyone - governments, the business lobby, environmental groups - is in favour of it. But it se…
The book has been carefully structure to provide a single introductory text examining the relationship between environmental issues and the design and development of property, using: Suggested lear…