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   Peter Ambrose

Publisher:

   Routledge

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1994
Subjects:   City Planning, Urban Policy
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books on: (City Planning) OR (Urban Policy)  - 58283 results

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Planning and the Urban Community: Essays on Urbanism and City Planning Presented before a Seminar Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Planning and Urban Development of Carnegie Institute of Technology and University of Pittsburgh
Book by Harvey S. Perloff; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961
Subjects: City Planning
Planning and the Urban Community Planning and the Urban Community Essays on Urbanism and City Planning presented before a Seminar Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Planning and Urban Development of Carnegie Institute...
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The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973
Book by Janet R. Daly-Bednarek; University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Subjects: Central Business Districts--Nebraska--Omaha--Planning--History--20th Century, City Planning--Nebraska--Omaha--History--20th Century, Urban Renewal--Nebraska--Omaha--History--20th Century
...Papers dealt with outdoor urban recreation, new designs for city parks, and federal aid for parks and recreation. 74 Perhaps...three landscape architect organizations took up the issue of "Planning for Leisure and Change." 75 Actions taken in various cities...
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Youth Crime and Urban Policy: A View from the Inner City
Book by Robert L. Woodson; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1981
Subjects: Juvenile Delinquency--United States--Congresses, Urban Policy--United States--Congresses, Youth--Government Policy--United States--Congresses
...former gang members and other inner-city youth who through community grassroots...Individuals voluntarily working and planning together can help solve many of our...Urban Policy: A View from the Inner City, promises to be interesting and constructive...
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City Planning in America: Between Promise and Despair
Book by Mary Hommann; Praeger Publishers, 1993
Subjects: City Planning--United States
...development. Much of what was built in the past remains today. The dysfunctional portions of this universe are what city planning wanted to do something about when it came into being in the latter part of the nineteenth century and still must...
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Outline of Town and City Planning: A Review of past Efforts and Modern Aims
Book by Thomas Adams; Russell Sage, 1935
Subjects: City Planning
...describes the evolution of the city and regional planning movement in the United States...THOMAS ADAMS INTRODUCTION CITY and town planning is a science, an art, and a...development the most popular part of city planning. People have seen the effects...
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Innovation in Urban Policy: Movement and Incorporation in City Administration and Community Development
Journal article by Pierre Clavel, Maile Deppe; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: City planning--Analysis, Community development--Management, Urban policy--Analysis
...University, Working Papers in Planning, No. 155. Clavel, P., Pitt...the neighborhoods: Progressive city government in Chicago, 1983...routinization. In G. Peterson (Ed.), Big city politics, governance and fiscal...cities. Journal of American Planning Association, 52(2), 133-141...
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Talk, Money and Institutional Design: Comparing Urban Policy Prospects in Toronto versus London
Journal article by Sylvia Bashevkin; Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 13, 2004
Subjects: Canada--Economic aspects, Canada--Social aspects, City planning--Forecasts and trends, Urban planning--Forecasts and trends, Urban policy--Forecasts and trends
...these goals are known, his account suggests, specific propositions can be developed to predict progressive policy prospects in city A versus B. The following discussion reviews the main components of Lemieuxs argument, summarizes the empirical supports...
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Development Charges and City Planning Objectives: The Ontario Disconnect
Journal article by Ray Tomalty, Andrejs Skaburskis; Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 12, 2003
Subjects: City planning--Analysis, Ontario, Ontario Municipal Board
...the industry argued that the Planning Act linked the need for services...Policy. Toronto: Program in Planning, University of Toronto. Greater...Canadian Metropolis: A Public Policy Perspective, edited by F. Frisken...of Development Impact Fees" Urban Studies. 29:5, pp. 651-666...
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Dreaming of a Decentralized Metropolis: City Planning in Socialist Milwaukee
Journal article by John Mccarthy; Michigan Historical Review, Vol. 32, 2006
Subjects: City planning--History, Decentralization in government--History, Government decentralization--History, Metropolitan areas--Social aspects, Milwaukee, Wisconsin--History, Milwaukee, Wisconsin--Social aspects, Urban planning--History
...gained municipal powers of zoning and planning to lessen its effects. Whitnall especially...the urban form that the industrial city had taken, believing that congestion...American urban landscapes. To be sure, city planning and urban policy in Milwaukee often...
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"A Remedy on Paper": The Role of Law in the Failure of City Planning in New Haven, 1907-1913
Journal article by Mark Fenster; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 107, 1998
Subjects: City planning and redevelopment law--History, New Haven, Connecticut--History
...a leader in urban renewal and city planning under Mayor Richard Lee, who would...the Rational City: The Myth of City Planning 31-32 (1983) hereinafter Boyer...Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800-1920, at 35-42, 75-81 (1989...
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Weighing in on City Planning: Could Smart Urban Design Keep People Fit and Trim?
Magazine article; Science News, Vol. 171, January 20, 2007
Subjects: City planning--Health aspects, City planning--Methods, Community life--Health aspects, Urban planning--Health aspects, Urban planning--Methods, Walking--Environmental aspects, Walking--Health aspects
Weighing in on City Planning: Could Smart Urban Design Keep People...walk to," says Frank, a professor of urban planning at the University of British...that associates health problems with urban sprawl, a loose term for humanmade landscapes...
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Bruce Katz Sharpens Vision of Urban Policy
Magazine article by Eli Lehrer; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, December 7, 1998
Subjects: Katz, Bruce--Interviews, Urban policy--Political aspects
...fascinated with books about World War I." Favorite films: City Lights; Metropolis; Godfather I and II. Most films by Akira...Transportation Efficiency Act, or ISTEA, which reshaped local planning decisions throughout the country. Insight: Why has Brookings...
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Greening the City: The Ecological and Human Dimensions of the City Can Be Part of Town Planning
Magazine article by Peter Newman, Edmund P. Fowler; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 22, April 1996
Subjects: City planning--Environmental aspects, Land use--Planning, Population density--Environmental aspects, Urban ecology--Planning, Urban economics--Planning
...concludes that the science of city planning and art of city design, in real life and in real...1984); and R.B. Gratz, The Living City (New York: Simon and Schuster...Citizens Guide to Transportation Planning and Livable Communities (New York...
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The City That Never Sleeps
Magazine article by Charles Jencks; New Statesman, Vol. 125, June 28, 1996
Subjects: City planning--Analysis, London, England--Planning, Urban policy--Analysis, Urbanization--Analysis
...fine-grained growth and decline of urban tissue. The pulsations of a living city could not be captured by the machine model. We are living well after the failure of Modern planning, after 30 years of blowing up mechanistic housing blocks, and the whole...
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A City Where Business and Philanthropy Flourish
Magazine article by Michael Barone; The American Enterprise, Vol. 9, September 1998
Subjects: City planning--Social aspects, Grand Rapids, Michigan--Social aspects, Urban policy--Citizen participation
A city where business and philanthropy flourish by Michael Barone Looking for a city with a tradition of community involvement...The home town of President Gerald Ford, the city proposed by Chicago Tribune publisher Colonel...
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Shaping the Region with an Eye on the Environment; Commercial Property Focus on Urban Planning Urban Planning in the North East Has Been a Prime Driver in Developing the Character and Environment of the Region, Says Scott Munro
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 16, 2008
Subjects: City planning, Commercial buildings, Urban planning
...such as this, it appears that spatial planning policies have an undoubted role in...Most growth is proposed in inner-city areas, such as Newcastle, Sunderland...however, that the impact of urban planning in the North East, to encourage economic...
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Will Planning Policy Spur on Edge of Town Regeneration?
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 23, 2008
Subjects: City planning, Urban planning
Will Planning Policy Spur on Edge of Town Regeneration? THE North East should, in many ways, be viewed as an excellent example of regeneration...
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City Planning Improvements at Elgin Shores
Newspaper article by Patrick Waldron; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 8, 2004
City Planning Improvements at Elgin Shores. by...unpolished." Its a reputation and image city of Elgin park officials and many forest...boat launch. For the last 21 years, the city of Elgins parks department has leased a...
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City Planning Better Help for Anorexics; CONFERENCE TACKLES GROWING PROBLEM OF EATING DISORDERS
Newspaper article by Paula Hall; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), February 12, 2000
City Planning Better Help for Anorexics; CONFERENCE TACKLES...bulimia could be launched in Coventry. The city has no dedicated service of its own and...voluntary and social workers. Coventry City Football Club is sponsoring a major conference...
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City Planning Archeological Dig on Founder's Homestead
Newspaper article by Sara Hooker; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 2, 2006
Subjects: Archaeology, Excavations (Archaeology)
City Planning Archeological Dig on Founders Homestead. by Sara Hooker Byline...changes that went on at the property over the past 175 years." When the city purchased the property in April, members of the Naperville Heritage Society...
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City Planning
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CITY PLANNING process of planning for the improvement of urban centers in order to provide healthy and safe living conditions, efficient...
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Garden City , in City Planning
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GARDEN CITY , in city planning an ideal, self-contained community...Under the auspices of the Regional Planning Association of America, the garden-city idea was more fully realized in the...influence on the development of modern city planning. See F. J. Osborn, Green-Belt Cities...
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Regional Planning
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
REGIONAL PLANNING see city planning . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Urban Planning
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
URBAN PLANNING see city planning . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Town Planning
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TOWN PLANNING see city planning . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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