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Build over there : understanding the government's role in shaping our cities / Hamish Barrell.
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Title:Build over there : understanding the government's role in shaping our cities / Hamish Barrell.
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Author/Creator:Barrell, Hamish, author.
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Published/Created:Bury St. Edmunds : Arena Books, 2017.
©2017
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: HT166 .B3853 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Library of Congress Subjects:City planning.
City planning--Economic aspects.
City planning--Social aspects.
City planning--Environmental aspects.
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Description:357 pages ; 24 cm
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-357).
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ISBN:9781909421882 (pbk.)
190942188X (pbk.)
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Contents:Part I
Progress, Urbanisation, and its consequences
Introduction
The traditional community
The nature of progress
The new community
The normative approach
Part II- The reason for cities
TH e location of settlements
Resource use beyond city
Part III - Justifying the planning system
Pre-Industrial origins - Industrial pre-cursor
Justification of state intervention - land use controls - Evolution of democratic planning systems
Planning systems differences
The modern purpose of planning
Planning for the urban form
Planning tools: funding, regulation or compulsory purchase
Central planning
Politicisation of planning
Politics and the market
Alternatives to planning
Part IV - Implementing planning
Agencies, politics and industrial roles
Pan-national government
national government
Local government
Regional government
Skills, law and process
Plan making
Development management
Property values and compensation
Environmental management
Public participation
Beyond consultation
Success, failure and realism
Part V - From villages to vanity spaces
The role of ethics and morality in planning
Culture
Public space
Employment, poverty and economic planning
Accommodation and living arrangements
Suburbs or high rises
Third dimension
Part VI - From streets to the sea
Transportation and efficiency
Landuse control: past, present and future
Managing open space
Part VII- Crisis Planning
Crisis, natural hazards, disasters and resilience
Security, crime and warfare
Conclusions: A view to the future