Political Science : City Planning & Urban Development

This book gives an international perspective on the role of institutions and regulations regarding national transport policy, local sustainable transport, international transport and freight transport. more...

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Whether a sunbathing beach in the Mediterranean, a surf beach in Australia, a conservation area in the UK or a wild section of wind and wave swept dunes on the Oregon coast, beaches are one of the most widely loved and heavily used and abused areas in the world. Competing social or recreational, economic and conservation uses and the needs of many users make beach management particularly challenging but vitally important. This comprehensive book provides full coverage of beach management principles and practice, with an emphasis on needs-based management. The book comprises two sections. Part one covers beach management principles and theory and addresses practical management tools and guidelines including how to determine the best management strategy for different beach types (linear, pocket, resort, urban, village, rural and remote) as well as how to include user preferences and priorities in effective management plans. The second section provides a wealth of case studies of best and worst practice authored by a cast of international beach management experts from the UK, USA, New Zealand, the Mediterranean, and Latin America. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing economic, social and environmental outcomes and reconciling competing needs in management planning for beach area. This book is an indispensable tool kit for all professionals in beach and coastal/beach zone management including local and regional authorities, planners, park and protected area managers, societies, resort and beach owners and managers. It is also a comprehensive primer for university undergraduate students in professional planning, land, coastal zone and beach management, coastal geography as well as tourism and conservation planning and management. more...

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Contrary to accepted wisdom, rapid urban growth can leave communities permanently scarred, deeply in debt, with unaffordable housing, a lost sense of community, and sacrificed environmental quality. In Better NOT Bigger, Fodor explodes the fundamental myth that growth is good for us and that more development will bring in more tax money, add jobs, lower housing costs, and reduce property taxes. Lively and well-illustrated, Better NOT Bigger provides insights, ideas, and tools to empower citizens to switch off their local "growth machine" by debunking the pro-growth rhetoric. Highly accessible to ordinary citizens as well as professional planners. more...

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‘Biofuels for Transport is a tour de force through the complex array of issues associated with rapidly expanding biofuels markets around the world. Exploring both the risks and opportunities of biofuels production and consumption this timely publication is a mustread for policy-makers investors entrepreneurs and civil society organizations interested in creating a more sustainable future.’ Julia Marton-Lefèvre Director General of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) ‘This is the most authoritative work published so far on the production and use of biofuels covering not only the technical but also the key environmental economic and social issues. Anyone interested in finding if Brazil is going to be the "new Saudi Arabia" of ethanol or if there is going to be a new OPEC of producers of biofuels should read this book.’ Professor José Goldemberg University of São Paulo Brazil Former Secretary for the Environment of the State of São Paulo Brazil ‘Biofuels for Transport is an insightful and timely study of how biofuels can reach their potential to strengthen energy security promote economic development and protect the environment. This much-needed analysis will benefit both policy-makers and practitioners.’ Senator Richard Lugar ‘A compelling synthesis of the current and future trends in biofuels with a thorough assessment of actions that must be taken to ensure the sustainable development of this industry.’ Amory B. Lovins Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute ‘An essential treatment of this vital subject.’ Vinod Khosla founder of Khosla Ventures USA The world is on the verge of an unprecedented increase in the production and use of biofuels for transport. The combination of rising oil prices issues of security climate instability and pollution deepening poverty in rural and agricultural areas and a host of improved technologies is propelling governments to enact powerful i more...

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A glance at a list of America's fastest growing ''cities'' reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people really noticing—including many of their ten million residents. These ''boomburbs'' are large, rapidly growing, incorporated communities of more than 100,000 residents that are not the biggest city in their region. Here, Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy explain who lives in them, what they look like, how they are governed, and why their rise calls into question the definition of urban. Located in over twenty-five major metro areas throughout the United States, numerous boomburbs have doubled, tripled, even quadrupled in size between census reports. Some are now more populated than traditional big cities. The population of the biggest boomburb-Mesa, Arizona-recently surpassed that of Minneapolis and Miami. Typically large and sprawling, boomburbs are ''accidental cities,'' but not because they lack planning. Many are made up of master-planned communities that have grown into one another. Few anticipated becoming big cities and unintentionally arrived at their status. Although boomburbs possess elements found in cities such as housing, retailing, offices, and entertainment, they lack large downtowns. But they can contain high-profile industries and entertainment venues: the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Arizona Cardinals are among over a dozen major-league sports teams who play in the boomburbs. Urban in fact but not in feel, these drive-by cities of highways, office parks, and shopping malls are much more horizontally built and less pedestrian friendly than most older suburbs. And, contrary to common perceptions of suburbia, they are not rich and elitist. Poverty is often seen in boomburb communities of small single-family homes, neighborhoods that once represented the Ame more...

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