Urban Planning & Development

* Examines the social, political and environmental issues at stake and the acute conflicts over the siting of industrial facilities and infrastructure* Essential reading for all involved in land use planning and facility siting at all levels and in all situations* New in the Risk, Society and Policy... More

Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach.... More

Environmental Consciousness and Urban Planning makes the reader aware of the human and environmental implications of development strategies; it questions the standards through which we measure social development. The tract discusses the urbanisation of India within a global context. The rapid growth... More

The last quarter of the twentieth-century witnessed a burgeoning of interest in ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed landscape. More recently a strong aesthetic element has been added to what was formerly a movement aimed at creating nature-like landscapes. The book adv... More

* Written by the acknowledged 'guru' of participatory urban development* Provides a vast range of ideas and examples for practicing urban development in all contexts, worldwide * Essential reading for practitioners, students, and academics in development and urban planningThis book is an argument fo... More

A new 21st-century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city-region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labor. This book, th... More

The Canter text appeals mainly to Civil Engineering students taking course work in environmental assessment practice or impact assessment, usually taught at the junior/senior level as a popular elective. Some chemical and environmental engineers take the course as well. The author has specifically b... More

This book entitled “Environmental Impact Assessment and Management,” embodies 15 chapters covering a wide spectrum. Chapter 1 contain details of EIA, Basic elements and Methodologies. Further, important guidelines to be followed before establishing industries, water related projects and transpor... More

What industrial ecology is and how it may be applied to corporate environmentalism are the subjects of "The Industrial Green Game". Topics include industrial circulation of materials, energy-efficiency strategies, "green" accounting, life-cycle analysis, and other approaches for preserving pollution... More

This book looks at a few indicative aspects of rural infrastructure facilities in India without which the dream of achieving a sustainable economic development will not be achieved. The objective of this book is to take a long and hard look at rural infrastructure in all its aspects and to present e... More

With only two percent of the entire Indian retail landscape dominated by the organized sector, the industry is certainly at an embryonic stage. Organized retailing made its presence felt in the country only during the last decade after the first lot of entrepreneurs set up exclusive outlets. Since t... More

The handbook on participatory rural energy planning is a direct response to the ever-growing need to conceptualize decentralized planning and implementation of rural energy interventions with the active involvement of local communities, especially women; and provide methodological tools to facilitat... More

This major new postcolonial study addresses the questions of modernity and space that haunt our perceptions of Calcutta. This book explores the politics of representation and the cultural changes that occurred in the city as its residents negotiated the idea of being 'modern'. Its dynamic range enco... More

Pakistan is a key country in the "War against Terror." A Western ally and a nuclear power, with a very large Muslim population, and where substantial "Islamicization" programs have taken place over recent years, it is by no means certain in which direction Pakistan will turn going forward. Understan... More

American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. City residents traveling through these neighborhoods move from feeling at home to feeling like tourists to feeling so out of place they fear for their security. As Gera... More

Following a wave of de-industrialization and cutbacks in public spending, American downtowns are reinventing themselves in the image of Disneyland and Las Vegas. "Fantasy City" looks at the changing face of the city and what it means for its citizens and for the future of urban development. America'... More

This book has been developed according to the specifications of the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) O level syllabus 5014 for Environmental Management, first introduced in 2004. It also covers the requirements of the IGCSE syllabus 0680 for Environmental Management. ... More