Authors:Nick Wates,  John Thompson, HRH The Prince of
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: planning, community, improve, tools, events, environment, urban, event, manual, collaborative, design
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1844074927
ISBN-13: 9781844074921

Want to improve your town? Your city? Frustrated with conventional planning processes? A Community Planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing special 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�but how do you do it? From Nick Wates, the author of the hugely successful The Community Planning Handbook, comes this events manual�the first on t

Author: Greg Young
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: planning, development, regional, culture, reshaping, urban
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754670775
ISBN-13: 9780754670773

Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberalism. At the same time, ’culture’ is possessing a new creative weight and importance in sociological, economic and ecological terms. This book argues that, in light of this cultural turn, there is a need and opportunity to re-position planning and proposes a new system of ’culturalisation’. Culturalisation is defined as the ethical, critical and reflexive integration of culture into planning. This original and practical system is put forward, showing how deeper, richer and more relevant cu

Authors:Yoram Shiftan, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkam,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: planning, classics, transportation
Number of Pages: 642
Published: 2007-05-07
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 1845421043
ISBN-13: 9781845421045

Transportation planning deals with the ways in which governments at various levels try to ensure the effective and efficient movement of people and goods. For this collection, the editors have selected the key previously published papers which analyse some of the major methodological issues involved in modern transportation planning and discuss the main policy questions and debates. The wide range of topics covered includes traffic assignment, developments in modelling travel behaviour, urban travel, the effect of modern telecommunications on travel, congestion and pricing policy. The book inc

Authors:Alvin Goodman, Makarand Hastak,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: planning, economics, engineering, handbook, infrastructure
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0071474943
ISBN-13: 9780071474948

The expert content needed to maintain our infrastructure Valuable as both a classroom text as well as a self-study guide, this comprehensive reference presents all the essential concepts and methodologies of infrastructure planning. The authors provide all the tools, analysis techniques, and case studies required to upgrade and maintain infrastructure in the USA as well as rest of the world.

Authors:Andreas Drexl, Alf Kimm,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: planning, methods, production, models, mrp, resource, manufacturing, advanced
Number of Pages: 419
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3540642471
ISBN-13: 9783540642473

The logic of Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) is usually implemented in production planning and control systems and therefore has a major impact on the performance of many real production systems. Much of what practitioners complain about, i.e. long lead times, high work-in-process, and large inventories, is due to the deficiencies of the MRP II concept. Thus, researchers are eager to find better models and methods to improve or to replace the current status. This book contains new ideas on master production scheduling, material requirements planning, lot sizing, sequencing and schedul

Author: Neil J. Gunther
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: planning, scalable, applications, highly, services, approach, capacity, tactical, guerrilla
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2006-12-19
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 3540261389
ISBN-13: 9783540261384

In these days of shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are often seen by management as tending to inflate their production schedules. Rather than giving up in the face of this kind of relentless pressure to get things done faster, Guerrilla Capacity Planning facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements based on the opportunistic use of whatever performance data and tools are available in such a way that management insight is expanded but their schedules are not. A key Guerrilla concept is tactical planning where

Author: Sue Nugu
Publisher: CIMA Publishing
Keywords: planning, cima, exam, books, techniques, support, forecasting, using, excel, second, financial, budgeting
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-05
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1856175510
ISBN-13: 9781856175517

This book covers all aspects of budget preparation, from designing and creating a budgetary control system, consolidating data and working with spreadsheets. Now fully updated to include the latest version of Excel, Excel 2007 and for easy budgeting now with access to an online resource of worked examples and spreadsheet templates. The book shows how things are done in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 to ease transition from the previous version to the new version. Now in full colour throughout to aid quick uderstanding through numerous colour screen shots.For those who use Excel on a daily basis in