Planning & Housing - All titles
The Future of Planning
Beyond Growth Dependence
This timely book provides a fresh analysis of the limitations of the growth-dependence planning paradigm and considers alternative urban development models, ways of protecting and enhancing existing low value land uses and means of managing community assets within the built environment
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 23.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 79.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 23.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 23.99
The Collaborating Planner?
Practitioners in the Neoliberal Age
Aims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working in local authorities across Great Britain.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 35.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 85.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 35.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 35.99
Rebuilding Britain
Planning for a Better Future
This unique book asks how Britain can organise itself to build a fairer and sustainable society. It explores the value to society of social town planning and offers a doorway for how planning both morally and practically can help to meet key challenges of the 21st century.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 18.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 18.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 18.99
Community Action and Planning
Contexts, Drivers and Outcomes
Analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative action in Marseille.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 29.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 79.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 29.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 29.99
Renewing Europe's Housing
Expert contributors provide contemporary comparative accounts of housing renewal policy and practice in nine European countries. Shared concerns over energy conservation, social protection and inclusion, and the roles and responsibilities of public and private sectors, form the basis of a proposed policy agenda for housing renewal across Europe.
- AvailableHardbackGBP 79.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 27.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 27.99
How to Save Our Town Centres
A Radical Agenda for the Future of High Streets
Written in an engaging and accessible style, How to save our town centres asks whether the internet has killed our high streets and how the relationship between people and places is changing, how business is done and who benefits, and how the use and ownership of land affects us all.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 27.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 27.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 27.99
Applying Leadership and Management in Planning
Theory and Practice
Written by an experienced author and widely respected academic, this valuable book asks whether the planning system is to blame for the frequent criticism it receives and discusses the ways in which management theories, tools and techniques can be applied to planning.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 26.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 79.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 26.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 26.99
Accommodating Difference
Evaluating Supported Housing for Vulnerable People
This important book explores the impact of different forms of policy and practice on the lives of vulnerable people, arguing for a flexible policy approach that places people in control of their own lives and creates housing options that effectively improve the well-being of those who live in them.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 27.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 79.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 27.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 27.99
At Home with Autism
Designing Housing for the Spectrum
Grounded in an extensive array of research sources, this valuable book introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that demand a new approach to how we provide, locate, design and develop homes in which they live.
- AvailableHardbackGBP 95.99 Add to basket
Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities
From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity?
With almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, this book looks at the reasons for the failure (and success) of affordable housing experiences in these cities, stressing the importance of siting affordable housing in areas that ensure more equitable urban revitalisation.
- AvailableHardbackGBP 29.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 10.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 10.99
Infrastructure Delivery Planning
An Effective Practice Approach
Janice Morphet sets out and analyses the key components of infrastructure delivery in Britain, both at national and neighbourhood level, situating this within international, European and domestic economic, territorial and social policy.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 26.99 Add to basket
- AvailableHardbackGBP 79.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 26.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 26.99
English Planning in Crisis
10 Steps to a Sustainable Future
This book is a manifesto for a new planning system in England. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, the authors draw on policy and practice examples from across the UK and internationally to challenge the current English system and ignite debate about its future.
- AvailablePaperbackGBP 9.99 Add to basket
- AvailableEPUBGBP 9.99 Add to basket
- AvailableKindleGBP 9.99