A guide to transforming brownfields into sustainable assets. It provides a framework for sustainable remediation practices that land planners and developers can use to convert a land liability into a sustainable asset. It covers global trends and business drivers related to brownfields and green development.

Using the practical experience of developing sustainable communities cost-effectively, this title presents a simple framework that allows students, developers, surveyors, engineers, policy-makers, architects and planners to structure their thinking. It is suitable for design professionals and the development and planning industry.

Discusses the sustainability of the planet and its population when dealing with climate change. This book focuses on community based solutions and how the heavy lifting of sustainability can always be done inside existing cities and communities.

A glimpse into the inner workings of 21st century Britain. This book provides an account of how the power and instant communication facilities of the internet can change the face of modern democracy.

Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across Europe.

This book provides a definition of social exclusion and looks at both the processes which cause it and the dimensions of the problem throughout Europe.

An illustrated, practical guide that reveals how to develop mixed-use projects that incorporate place-making principles. It lists the key points that can make or break a project and describes some of the best practices and techniques developing mixed-use town centres, towers, urban villages, and districts.

Concise review of the rules and regulations for employing labour directly, labour-only subcontractors or supply and fix-sub-contractors. Also offers practical advice on the tax deduction scheme and how to avoid falling foul of the Inland Revenue.

Presents a global perspective on the issue of land use policy. This book provides research on scientific databases developed using remote sensing and geospatial analysis of retrospective and prospective scenarios that have facilitated the development of land use planning and policies towards sustainable development.

Planning theory has undergone significant changes in recent decades. The revised and updated 2nd edition of this popular text provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of these changes, how they relate to planning practice, and their significance. It is an essential guide to current planning theory and the post-positivist perspective.

The legacy of a makeshift landscape. New edition.

Planning theory has undergone significant changes during the past two decades of the 20th century. This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of these changes, how they relate to planning practice and their significance.

Scenario planning is a technique for strategic planning and execution that takes into account the many uncertainties that are the reality of the world. This book explains what scenarios are and are not, why they are needed, as well as their uses and benefits. It also deals with cultural and organizational changes that organizations must undertake.

Directs attention towards the relationship between symbolic, imaginative change and intended regeneration or place development. This book reinvents places by the interplay of industries, citizens and authorities, by projects of construction, promotion and consumption, and by processes related to information, identity and imagery.

Presents a contribution to the debate on land development strategies, as well as helping to supporting land use decision making at various levels. This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective that analyses the general principles of land use multifunctionality and reports on a variety of success stories.

Focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society. This book explores the dynamics of technology-induced change that is taking place within the context of the global knowledge economy and network society.

Bringing together authors from academia and practice, this book examines spatial planning at different scales in a number of case studies throughout the British Isles, helping planners to become re-engaged in critical thinking about space and place. It examines case studies ranging from a large conurbation (London) to regional and national levels.

An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography.

With case studies and research, this title outlines the principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods and towns, putting the topical issues of climate change and obesity at the centre of its concern.