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The Community Planning Handbook

How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World

By: Nick Wates

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The Community Planning Handbook

How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World

By: Nick Wates

Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved: planners and local authorities, architects and other practitioners, community workers, students and local residents. It features an accessible how-to-do-it style, best practice information on effective methods, and international scope and relevance. Tips, checklists and sample documents help readers to get started quickly, learn from others' experience and to select the approach best suited to their situation. The glossary, bibliography and contact details provide quick access to further information and support. This fully updated new edition contains extra material on following up after community engagement activities.

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Routledge

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1317907701

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Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

How People Are Creating Their Own Environment

By: Nick Wates,Charles Knevitt

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Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

How People Are Creating Their Own Environment

By: Nick Wates,Charles Knevitt

First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built environment is most effective when those who live in a particular area are actively engaged with its creation and daily administration. A work that has influenced policy makers and planning legislation, Community Architecture remains one of the key reference works for student architects and planners.

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Routledge

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1134618891

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The Community Planning Event Manual

How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

By: Nick Wates,John Thompson

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The Community Planning Event Manual

How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

By: Nick Wates,John Thompson

Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their say and be involved - residents, businesses, professionals and politicians. It's effective and it's fun. From Nick Wates, author of the hugely successful Community Planning Handbook, comes this Event Manual, the first on the subject, which explains why and how to organize community planning events. The book is aimed at anyone - from concerned individuals to community groups to professional planners in business and government - interested in the remarkable potential of community planning events. It includes a step-by-step guide, detailed checklists and other tools for event organisers. The method is user-friendly, flexible and easy to employ in any context from small neighbourhood improvements to major infrastructure and construction projects anywhere in the world. With a Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales and Introduction by John Thompson.

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1136554548

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Against Landlords

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

By: Nick Bano

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Against Landlords

How to Solve the Housing Crisis

By: Nick Bano

When landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done? Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of tenants live in hazardous conditions. Homelessness is at a new high. Yet the government’s only solution is to promote homeownership. Against Landlords shows that this crisis is not the product of happenstance or political incompetence. Government policy has intentionally split British citizens into homeowners and renters, two classes set on very different financial paths. In the UK, one out of every twenty-one adults is a landlord, and it is this group, and those who aspire to join it, represented by the political class. In his radical new interpretation of the housing crisis, lawyer Nick Bano explains how this environment set the conditions for the Grenfell Tower fire and how it means a life of anxiety for the nation’s renters. It is a problem that stretches far beyond London and one inherently racist in nature. Building more housing is not the solution. It is firstly a problem of the law, Bano argues, and reforms must sweep away the landlordism at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life.

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Verso Books

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180429389X

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The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

By: Nick Wates

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The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

By: Nick Wates

First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants’ groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties, and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London. The author describes how property developers, interested only in maximising profits, attempted to redevelop the Tolmers area for offices, while the local authority, pressurised by local tenants and faced with a housing shortage, tried to redevelop for housing. This book is about the politics of central city redevelopment. Although this text focuses on one particular case study, the same processes operate in all cities where land is used as a commodity for financial speculation. By tracing the Tolmers case in detail, this text demonstrates the forces which operate in city redevelopment, and shows the affect which various forms of opposition can have.

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1135120706

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The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning 2e

By: Adam Sheppard,Nick Croft,Nick Smith

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The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning 2e

By: Adam Sheppard,Nick Croft,Nick Smith

The fully updated Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides a concise introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. This second edition considers who planners are and what they do, showing how planning – as an art, science and system – has evolved as an organised action of the state. The book discusses the planning system, processes, legal constructs and approaches, taking into account the recent regulatory changes within the UK nations. Restructured to improve readability, it explores the interactions of government and society with the planning system, and the relationship between urban planning, the environment and placemaking. It encourages the reader to adopt a reflective and inquisitive outlook, and features: • case study boxes; • further reading and resources; • guidance on the recent policy and system updates, including those through devolution.

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Policy Press

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1447369823

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Village Housing

Constraints and opportunities in rural England

By: Nick Gallent,Iqbal Hamiduddin,Phoebe Stirling,Meiling Wu

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Village Housing

Constraints and opportunities in rural England

By: Nick Gallent,Iqbal Hamiduddin,Phoebe Stirling,Meiling Wu

Village Housing explores the housing challenge faced by England’s amenity villages, rooted in post-war counter-urbanisation and a rising tide of investment demand for rural homes. It tracks solutions to date and considers what further actions might be taken to increase the equity of housing outcomes and thereby support rural economies and alternate rural futures. Examining past, current and future intervention, the book’s authors analyse three major themes; the interwar reliance on landowners to provide tied housing and post-war diversification of responses to rising housing access difficulties (including from the public and third sectors); recent responses that are community-led or rely on flexibilities in the planning system; and actions that disrupt established production processes including self-build, low impact development and a re-emergence of council provision. These responses to the village housing challenge are set against a broader backdrop of structural constraint – rooted in a planning-land-tax-finance nexus – and opportunities, through reform, to reduce that constraint. Village Housing makes the case for planning, land and tax reforms that can broader the social inclusivity and diversity of villages, supporting their economic function and allowing them to play their part in post-carbon rural futures. It aims to contribute greater understanding of the village housing problem – framed by the wider cost crisis afflicting advanced economies – and offer glimpses of alternative relationships with planning and land.

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UCL Press

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1800083033

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Study Skills for Town and Country Planning

By: Adam Sheppard,Nick Smith

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Study Skills for Town and Country Planning

By: Adam Sheppard,Nick Smith

Sheppard and Smith provide a clear, accessible and friendly guide to studying to become a planner, with great tips, insight and advice – including what employers will be looking for and the importance of lifelong learning" - Michael Harris, Deputy Head of Policy and Research, Royal Town Planning Institute "If you are thinking of studying town and country planning at university, this book tells you what to expect and how to succeed" - Cliff Hague, Emeritus Professor of Heriot-Watt University and Past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute Study Skills for Town and Country Planning is a basic introduction to studying planning, a ′how to′ for students to develop a relevant skill set to succeed in their degree, and a guide to applying those skills in a very practical and diverse workplace. Clearly written and accessible, the book includes: Up-to-date case studies, providing real examples of applying the relevant tools and techniques covered in the book Practical activities, such as preparing and practising presentations and drafting short reports ′Tips for Success′ Suggestions for further reading a Glossary explaining new terms This student-focused guide provides an introduction to the study skills associated with town and country planning for anyone considering or already studying a planning related course. Adam Sheppard is a senior lecturer in the Department of Planning and Architecture at the University of the West of England. Nick Smith is a senior lecturer in the Department of Planning and Architecture at the University of the West of England.

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SAGE

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1446293122

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Gloucestershire and North Bristol Soldiers on the Somme

By: Nick Thornicroft

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Gloucestershire and North Bristol Soldiers on the Somme

By: Nick Thornicroft

When war broke out in 1914 there was a widespread sense of optimism among the British public. Fired by patriotic fervour and pride in their nation, many were convinced that &‘it would all be over by Christmas' and young men rushed to join the army and share in the &‘honour and glory' of war. These illusions were swiftly lost as a war of attrition developed; advances on both sides were small and casualties high. Even with this background, the slaughter on 1 July 1916 of thousands of British soldiers, who went over the top to their deaths on the Somme, shocked a world increasingly conditioned to the realities of armed conflict. Nick Thornicroft delves into the heart of the British Army on the blackest day in its history and gives a vivid portrayal of Gloucestershire soldiers in the heat of battle; these ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances, fighting with incredible bravery for their country's future.Through assiduous research and compassion for his subject, Nick Thornicroft has woven the experiences of Gloucestershire and North Bristol's soldiers into the wider military story, and in doing so brings a human aspect to one of the most inhuman battles in history. The author has also written about the Somme experiences of other men from the South West in his book Cornwall's Fallen: The Road to the Somme, also available from The History Press (ISBN 978 0 7524 4528 1).

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The History Press

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0750962550

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9780750962551

Family Business

By: Carole Howorth,Nick Robinson

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Family Business

By: Carole Howorth,Nick Robinson

Family businesses are the most common business form in the world, ranging from the millions of small local businesses to giants such as Walmart. This book showcases the crucial contribution that family businesses make to the world economy and informs students of the existing and potential research in this area. Drawing upon global academic research and case studies, theories of family businesses are explained and prevailing myths and assumptions are tested. Features including exercises linked to case studies develop skills in applying theories in practice. This concise textbook is essential reading for students of family business and useful additional reading for those interested in entrepreneurship more broadly.

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Routledge

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131544030X

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #4

The Arts in Space Part 1

By: Nick Abadzis

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #4

The Arts in Space Part 1

By: Nick Abadzis

ONE TRIP, ONE TIME, ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE. WHERE AND WHEN WOULD YOU GO? In exchange for the invaluable assistance she offered defending New York Ð and to say sorry for dropping into her life like a tornado! Ð the Doctor has promised Gabby one trip Ð just one trip! Ð in the TARDIS. With the whole universe laid before her, all of time and space, where will Gabriella Gonzalez choose to go? What will they find when they get thereÉ and can one trip in the TARDIS ever be enough? More importantly, the Tenth Doctor has been hurt by the fate of his companions before Ð and recently! With Donna still fresh in his mind, can Gabby convince him that he shouldnÕt travel alone, for just a little while longer? Nick Abadzis and Elena Casagrande take the new Tenth Doctor era to the next level! Plus: every packed issue includes bonus humor strip content!

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Titan Comics

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1782763937

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Frontlines

Stories of Global Environmental Justice

By: Nick Meynen

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Frontlines

Stories of Global Environmental Justice

By: Nick Meynen

Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth. Revealing our ecosystems to be under a sustained attack, Nick Meynen finds causes for hope in unconventional places.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789041937

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The Community Planning Event Manual

How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

By: Nick Wates,John Thompson

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The Community Planning Event Manual

How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

By: Nick Wates,John Thompson

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The Community Planning Handbook

How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World

By: Nick Wates

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How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World

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Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

By: Nicholas Carter

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Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

By: Nicholas Carter

IT had rained in torrents all the way down from Schenectady, so when Jack Duane glimpsed the lights of what looked to be a big house through the trees, he braked his battered, convertible sedan to a stop at the side of the road. Mud lay along the fenders and running boards; mud and water had spumed up and freckled Duane’s face and hat. He pulled off the latter—it was soggy—and slapped it on the seat beside him, leaning out and squinting through the darkness and falling water. He was on the last lap of a two weeks’ journey from San Francisco, his objective being New York City. There he hoped to wangle a job as foreign correspondent from an old crony, J. J. Molloy, now editor of the New York Globe. Adventurer, journalist, globetrotter, Duane was of the type that is always on the move. “It’s a place, anyway, Moses,” he said to the large black man beside him, his servitor and bodyguard, who had accompanied him everywhere for the past three years. “Somebody lives there; they ought to have some gas.” “Yasah,” said Moses, staring past Duane’s shoulder, “it’s a funny-looking place, suh.” Duane agreed. Considering that they were seventy miles from New York, in the foothills of the Catskills, with woods all around them and the rain pouring down, the thing they saw through the trees, some three hundred yards from the country road, was indeed peculiar. It looked more like a couple of Pullman cars coupled together and lighted, than like a farmer’s dwelling. “Fenced in, too,” said Duane, pointing to the high steel fence that bordered the road, separating them from the object of their vision. “And look there—” A fitful flash of lightning in the east, illuminating the distant treetops, showed up the towering steel and network of a high-voltage electric line’s tower. The roving journalist muttered something to express his puzzlement, and got out of the car. Moses followed him. “Well,” said Duane presently, when they had stared a moment longer, “whatever it is, I’m barging in. We’ve got to have some gas or we’ll never make New York tonight.” MOSES agreed. The two men started across the road—the big Negro hatless and wearing a slicker—the reporter in a belted trench coat, his brown felt hat pulled out of shape on his head. “It’s a big thing,” Duane said as he and Moses halted at the fence and peered through. Distantly, he could see now that the mysterious structure in the woods was at least a hundred yards long, flat-topped and black as coal except from narrow shafts of light that came from its windows. “And look at the light coming out of the roof.” That was, indeed, the most peculiar feature of this place they had discovered. From a section of the roof near the center, as though through a skylight, a great white light came out, illuminating the slanting rain and the bending trees.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465536493

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9781465536495

Tolmers in Colour

Memories of a London Squatter Community

By: Nick Wates,Mae Dewsbery,Caroline Lwin

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Tolmers in Colour

Memories of a London Squatter Community

By: Nick Wates,Mae Dewsbery,Caroline Lwin

For seventeen years, Tolmers Square in north London was the focus of a conflict involving tenant's groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties at both national and local level, and property developers. The Tolmers case shows clearly the destructive forces which often operate in city redevelopment, and the effectiveness of various forms of campaigning and community action.

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0950725927

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The Community Planning Handbook

The Community Planning Handbook

Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

The Community Planning Event Manual

The Community Planning Event Manual

Against Landlords

Against Landlords

The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning 2e

The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning 2e

Village Housing

Village Housing

Study Skills for Town and Country Planning

Study Skills for Town and Country Planning

Gloucestershire and North Bristol Soldiers on the Somme

Gloucestershire and North Bristol Soldiers on the Somme

Family Business

Family Business

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #4

Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #4

Frontlines

Frontlines

The Community Planning Event Manual

The Community Planning Event Manual

The Community Planning Handbook

The Community Planning Handbook

Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

Nick Carter Detective: The War-Makers

Tolmers in Colour

Tolmers in Colour

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