Author: Grand Rapids (Mich.). City Plan DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Plan also contins information on: Master plan; comprehensive plan.
The Grand Rapids City Plan
Author: Grand Rapids (Mich.). City Plan DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Plan also contins information on: Master plan; comprehensive plan.
Public Space as a Tool for Downtown Revitalization in Medium-sized Cities
Author: Rachel M. JacquesRevitalizing Downtown
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Revitalizing Downtown: What is the Main Street Approach to downtown revitalization? How can you use it to revitalize your commercial district? Learn about this strategy, which combines historic preservation and economic development in a grassroots organization, in this introductory primer for the downtown professional. Revitalizing Downtown will show you how to: 1. build on your commercial district?s assets through design; 2. expand business through economic restructuring; 3. develop a dynamic, image-building promotional program; and 4. launch an effective, credible organization. Revised and illustrated, Revitalizing Downtown is an essential tool for every revitalization program. 161 pages
ASPO Newsletter
Author: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030944456X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. Cities have captured more than 80 percent of the globe's economic activity and offered social mobility and economic prosperity to millions by clustering creative, innovative, and educated individuals and organizations. Clustering populations, however, can compound both positive and negative conditions, with many modern urban areas experiencing growing inequality, debility, and environmental degradation. The spread and continued growth of urban areas presents a number of concerns for a sustainable future, particularly if cities cannot adequately address the rise of poverty, hunger, resource consumption, and biodiversity loss in their borders. Intended as a comparative illustration of the types of urban sustainability pathways and subsequent lessons learned existing in urban areas, this study examines specific examples that cut across geographies and scales and that feature a range of urban sustainability challenges and opportunities for collaborative learning across metropolitan regions. It focuses on nine cities across the United States and Canada (Los Angeles, CA, New York City, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Grand Rapids, MI, Flint, MI, Cedar Rapids, IA, Chattanooga, TN, and Vancouver, Canada), chosen to represent a variety of metropolitan regions, with consideration given to city size, proximity to coastal and other waterways, susceptibility to hazards, primary industry, and several other factors.
Creating Sustainable Community Programs
Author: Mark R. DanielsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313073961
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Public opinion polls consistently reveal the lack of confidence, disillusionment, and mistrust that citizens feel toward government. Daniels and his contributors believe that the relationship between citizens and their governments can be changed by facilitating greater citizen collaboration with government, particularly through local sustainable programs. As the case studies show, often sustainable community programs are created through grassroots movements that are initiated and managed by citizens themselves, bringing them in contact with their local elected and appointed officials. Unlike traditional programs that are administered by local officials on behalf of their citizens, once sustainable community programs are created, citizens administer their own programs in collaboration with local officials. The case studies look at a variety of sustainable programs, primarily in the United States, that help to deal with issues such as recycling, transportation, microcredit, site redevelopment, pollution, health care, and hunger. Creating Sustainable Community Programs is the first book on sustainable programs that is intended for an audience of public administration scholars, researchers, and students as well as practitioners who are searching for ways to change the relationship between citizens and their governments.
ASPO Newsletter
Author: American Society of Planning OfficialsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City Planning
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Energy and water development appropriations for 1991
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
HUD Newsletter
Author: Welfare, Religion and Gender in Post-apartheid South Africa
Author: Ignatius SwartPublisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN: 1920338683
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
The topic covered by this book is important (crucially so in post-apartheid South Africa) and the research is meticulous. This has resulted in an impressive collection of material concerning welfare, religion and gender in twenty-first century South Africa, which includes both theoretical reflections and an abundance of empirical data. - Professor Grace Davie (Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Exeter, UK)