Free DownloadPlanning Your Wedding: A Complete Guide by Alex Bugeja
English | December 22, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DR7RM3J6 | 337 pages | EPUB | 0.76 Mb
Plan the perfect wedding with this comprehensive guide, covering every detail from setting a date and budget to managing guest lists and writing thank-you notes. Whether you dream of a grand celebration or an intimate gathering, this book provides the knowledge and tools you need to navigate the complexities of wedding planning with confidence and ease.
Free DownloadRobert Goodspeed, "Intelligence for Future Cities: Planning Through Big Data and Urban Analytics "
English | ISBN: 3031317459 | 2023 | 356 pages | EPUB | 90 MB
This book contains a selection of the best papers presented at the Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) conference, held in June 2023 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Major themes of this book are smart cities, urban big data, and shared mobility. This book also contains chapters with cutting-edge research on urban modeling, walkability and bikeability analysis, and planning support systems (PSS).
Free DownloadShlomit Flint Ashery, "The Planning Role in Stretching the City: A Tale of Two London Neighbourhoods "
English | ISBN: 3031354826 | 2023 | 121 pages | EPUB | 33 MB
This research aims to uncover new insights into minority housing strategies and their impact on densely populated urban areas. The study assumes that as space becomes scarce, inter and intra groups interactions in the urban space motivate people to maximize the utility of the resources at their disposal. This ‘stretch’ of the built environment provides them with critical selective advantages and a sense of security and belonging.
Free DownloadSamina Raja, "Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States: Future Directions for a New Ethic in City Building"
English | ISBN: 3031320786 | 2025 | 597 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions of ethics and equity are addressed. The book is organized into six sections. Written by a team of scholars and practitioners, the book covers a comprehensive array of topics ranging from theory to practice of planning for equitable urban agriculture. Section 1 makes the case for re-imagining agriculture as central to urban landscapes, and unpacks why, how, and when planning should support UA, and more broadly food systems. Section 2, written by early career and seasoned scholars, provides a theoretical foundation for the book. Section 3, written by teams of scholars and community partners, examines how civic agriculture is unfolding across urban landscapes, led largely by community organizations. Section 4, written by planning practitionersand scholars, documents local government planning tied to urban agriculture, focusing especially on how they address questions of equity. Section 5 explores UA as a locus of pedagogy of equity. Section 6 places the UA movement in the US within a global context, and concludes with ideas and challenges for the future. The book concludes with a call for planning as public nurturance – an approach that can be illustrated through urban agriculture. Planning as public nurturance is a value-explicit process that centers an ethics of care, especially protecting the interests of publics that are marginalized. It builds the capacity of marginalized groups to authentically co-design and participate in planning/policy processes. Such a planning approach requires that progress toward equitable outcomes is consistently evaluated through accountability measures. And, finally, such an approach requires attention to structural and institutional inequities. Addressing these four elements is more likelyto create a condition under which urban agriculture may be used as a lever in the planning and development of more just and equitable cities.
Free DownloadAntonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza, "Planning and Operation of Active Distribution Networks: Technical, Social and Environmental Aspects "
English | ISBN: 3030908119 | 2022 | 532 pages | EPUB | 45 MB
This book offers a broad and detailed view about how traditional distribution systems are evolving smart/active systems. The reader will be able to share the view of a number of researchers directly involved in this field. For this sake, philosophical discussions are enriched by the presentation of theoretical and computational tools. A senior reader may incorporate some concepts not available during his/her graduation process, whereas new Engineers may have contact with some material that may be essential to his/her practice as professionals.
Free DownloadS. K. Kulshrestha, "Planning Indian Megacity Regions: Spatial Model, Development Dynamics and Future Advances "
English | ISBN: 9811654689 | 2022 | 213 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
This book focuses on spatial planning of megacities that are growing in Asia, Africa, and America. These cities are not be seen in isolation from their respective influence regions. They complement each other. Most of the solutions to the problems of such cities are found in their respective regions, and, on the other hand, the regions derive their strength from their respective megacities. There is a need for promoting integrated spatial planning of megacity regions. The five chapters in this book highlight the spatial planning of such regions.
Free DownloadKwi-Gon Kim, "Planning Climate Smart and Wise Cities: A Multidisciplinary Approach "
English | ISBN: 3030801640 | 2022 | 500 pages | EPUB | 138 MB
This book provides information that facilitates integrated climate actions in cities, leveraging disruptive technologies, business models, policies, financing, and leadership solutions. It fosters the development of climate smart and wise cities. It reviews the major developments of climate actions in cities and combines climate environment and energy technology, policy and financing instruments. A range of distinguished authors assess the experiences thus far and also consider future development from both theoretical and practical perspectives. They also discuss many policy and technical options, including climate smart and wise city planning, inclusion of urban nature, international and national carbon market mechanisms and measuring its impact and digital transformation. Moreover, attention is paid to the role of natural principles, the role of transparency principles and to aspects of democratic climate governance within a climate action scheme. This book makes clear that thecarbon neutrality, sustainability, circularity, efficiency, connectivity and resiliency of cities depend to a large extent on the specific digital technologies and the leadership reshaping our cities.
