Best Urban Planning Programs - April 2024

Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities

"The Great American Dream of cruising down the parkway, zipping from here to there at any time has given way to a true nightmare that is destroying the environment, costing billions and deeply impacting our personal well-being. Getting from A to B has never been more difficult, expensive or miserable. It doesn't have to be this way. Jeffrey Tumlin's book Sustainable Transportation Planning offers easy-to-understand, clearly explained tips and techniques that will allow us to quite literally take back our roads. Essential reading for anyone who wants to drive our transportation system out of th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470540931
• ASIN: 0470540931
• ISBN: 0470540931
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Practical Program Evaluation for State and Local Governments (Urban Institute Press)

• ASIN: 0877662967
• ASIN: 0877662967
• ISBN: 0877662967
• Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School

Providing unique, accessible lessons on urban design, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals.   Students of urban design often find themselves lost between books that are either highly academic or overly formulaic, leaving them with few tangible tools to use in their design projects. 101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School fills this void with provocative, practical lessons on urban space, street types, pedestrian experience, managing the design process, the psych... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451496698
• ASIN: 0451496698
• ISBN: 9780451496690
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? (Urban Institute Press)

Imagine if a school were to spend more per pupil on ceramics electives than core science classes. What if a district were to push more funding to wealthy neighborhoods than to impoverished ones? Such policies would provoke outrage. Yet these schools and districts are real.Today's taxpayers spend almost $9,000 per pupil, roughly double what they spent 30 years ago, and educational achievement doesn't seem to be improving. With the movement toward holding schools and districts accountable for student outcomes, we might think that officials can precisely track how much they are spending per stude... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0877667640
• ASIN: 0877667640
• ISBN: 0877667640
• Brand: Brand: Urban Institute Press
• Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Good Schools Poor Neighborhoods: Defying Demographics, Achieving Success (Urban Institute Press)

Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods contrasts highly effective schools serving urban, low-income, minority youth with their more typical, struggling counterparts. Highlighted are two disparate schools: one serving predominately African American students in a large northeastern city and one serving Latino students in a southwestern urban area. Through solid data from original research, as well as lively vignettes and vivid quotes from principals, teachers, parents, and students, a picture of exceptional schools emerges to guide policymakers and practitioners.

• ASIN: 087766742X
• ASIN: 087766742X
• ISBN: 087766742X
• Brand: Brand: Urban Institute Press
• Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Whole30 Fast & Easy Cookbook: 150 Simply Delicious Everyday Recipes for Your Whole30

A New York Times bestseller featuring 150 all new, Whole30-compliant recipes—all fast and easy to prepare Millions of people have transformed their lives with Whole30, yet co-creator Melissa Hartwig wants to make it even easier to achieve Whole30 success—with delicious, compliant, fast, and easy recipes. This follow-up to the best-selling The Whole30 Cookbook is packed recipes designed to get you out of the kitchen fast, so you can enjoy all the benefits of your Whole30-inspired lifestyle.The Whole30 Fast and Easy Cookbook features: Recipes perfect for weeknight cooking, lunches in a hur... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328839206
• ASIN: 1328839206
• ISBN: 1328839206
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Whole30 Day by Day: Your Daily Guide to Whole30 Success

Tips, hacks, advice, and inspiration to help you achieve Whole30 success every day of the program The Whole30 Day by Day is the essential companion to the New York Times bestseller The Whole30; a daily handbook to keep you motivated, inspired, accountable, and engaged during your Whole30 journey. It’s like having Whole30’s own Melissa Hartwig coaching you through the Whole30 one day at a time, sharing a day-by-day timeline, personal motivation, community inspiration, habit hacks, and meal tips. Plus, each day offers guidance for self-reflection, food journaling, and tracking your non-sca... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1328839230
• ASIN: 1328839230
• ISBN: 1328839230
• Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Urban Construction Project Management (McGraw-Hill Construction Series)

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Get Proven Solutions to the Unique Problems of Construction Management in Urban Environments Filled with hands-on advice from two seasoned project management experts, Urban Construction Project Management provides a wealth of proven solutions to the common problems of construction management in urban environments. The book includes cutting-edge information about working on small sites, public safety, the pe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0071544682
• ASIN: 0071544682
• ISBN: 0071544682
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Regional Planning for a Sustainable America: How Creative Programs Are Promoting Prosperity and Saving the Environment

Regional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today’s effective regional planning programs, analyzing dozens of regional initiatives across North America.The American landscape is being transformed by poorly designed, sprawling development. This sprawl—and its wasteful resource use, traffic, and pollution—does not respect arbitrary political boundaries like city limits and state borders. Yet for most of the nation, the patterns of development and conservation are shaped by fragmented, parochial local governments and property developers fo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0813551323
• ASIN: 0813551323
• ISBN: 0813551323
• Manufacturer: Rutgers University Press

Revisiting Rental Housing: Policies, Programs, and Priorities

Rental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States. Government policies and programs continue to grapple with problematic issues, however, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, concentrated poverty, substandard housing stock, and the unmet needs of the disabled, the elderly, and the homeless. In R evisiting Rental Housing, leading housing researchers build upon decades of experience, research, and evaluation to inform our understanding of the nation's rental housing challenges and what can be done about them. It thoughtfully addresses no... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0815774117
• ASIN: 0815774117
• ISBN: 0815774117
• Brand: Brand: Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies
• Manufacturer: Brookings Inst. Press/Harvard JCHS

The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (The MIT Press)

Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people's lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urb... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0262581523
• ASIN: 0262581523
• ISBN: 0262581523
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: The MIT Press

GIS for Housing and Urban Development

The report describes potential applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis by HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research for understanding housing needs, addressing broader issues of urban poverty and community development, and improving access to information and services by the many users of HUD’s data. It offers a vision of HUD as an important player in providing urban data to federal initiatives towards a spatial data infrastructure for the nation. Table of ContentsFront MatterExecutive Summary1. Introduction2. Ensuring the Availability, Accu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0309088747
• ASIN: 0309088747
• ISBN: 0309088747
• Manufacturer: National Academies Press

Terminating Public Programs: An American Political Paradox

This text examines why and when policies or organizations are terminated, how they can be terminated successfully, and what often prevents them from being terminated. The literature on termination and a variety of case studies are reviewed in order to identify theories supported by research.

• ASIN: 0765601257
• ASIN: 0765601257
• ISBN: 0765601257
• Brand: Brand: M E Sharpe Inc
• Manufacturer: Routledge

Federal Housing Policy and Programs: Past and Present

The basic outlines of a federal housing policy were drawn during the Great Depression. Widespread unemployment, bank failures, loss of savings, and home foreclosures led to the collapse of the real estate market. These disasters provided immediate objectives for housing programs: to stimulate employment, to preserve and strengthen financial institutions, and to protect and promote homeownership. During the decades following World War II, homeownership programs were successful. High family formation and high birth rates went hand-in-hand with high wages, mortgage availability, and consumerism,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0882851071
• ASIN: 0882851071
• ISBN: 0882851071
• Brand: Brand: CUPR/Transaction
• Manufacturer: CUPR/Transaction

Sustainable Program Management (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management)

The world is undergoing major transitions due to three driving forces―population changes, climate changes, and energy resource constraints―making it essential for us to move toward sustainability in the implementation of projects and programs as well as our everyday life. Real sustainability exists where there is a balance between population and energy usage and a stable climate―global equilibrium. Designed for program and portfolio managers and senior planners, Sustainable Program Management provides essential information on the three major driving forces of the coming decades and prese... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1466575166
• ASIN: 1466575166
• ISBN: 1466575166
• Brand: Brand: Auerbach Publications
• Manufacturer: Auerbach Publications

Managing Urban Expansion in Mongolia : Best Practices in Scenario-Based Urban Planning

This book is a best practice in urban planning exercise and provides clear cost and benefit implication of three different development paths in seven sectors for policy makers and citizens of Ulaanbaatar to improve their

• UPC: 13724079

Making Best Use of Your Lihtc Dollars : A Planning Paper for State Policy Makers

This paper is intended to help state officials think about how to make strategic use of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), which since the late 1980s has been the primary vehicle for building

• UPC: 53545768

Best Practices in Planning Strategically for Online Educational Programs

9781138936195

• UPC: 56105237

The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program - eBook

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a world-renowned model for regional planning and development. Based along the Tennessee River and its series of hydro-electric power stations, dams and reservoirs, the TVA development program envisioned a

• UPC: 103925879

Planning for Coastal Resilience : Best Practices for Calamitous Times

In this timely book, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience.  Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly

• UPC: 10886879

Motherhood, Poverty, and the Wic Program in Urban America : Life Strategies

This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in

• UPC: 47877000

Bad Ass Strategic Program Planning Adviser: Notebook: Best Strategic Program Planning Adviser Notebook, Journal Gift, Diary, Doodle Gift or Notebook 6

Bad Ass Strategic Program Planning Adviser: Notebook: Best Strategic Program Planning Adviser Notebook, Journal Gift, Diary, Doodle Gift or Notebook

• UPC: 792337896

Best Practices in Metropolitan Transportation Planning

9780815381037

• UPC: 143436865

A Model for Strategic Planning of Family Planning Programs

A Model for Strategic Planning of Family Planning

• UPC: 502684100

The TDR Handbook : Designing and Implementing Transfer of Development Rights Programs

"Transfer of Development Rights" (TDR) programs allow local governments to employ economic principles to encourage good land use planning. TDR programs most often permit landowners to forfeit development rights in areas targeted for preservation and

• UPC: 56056387