Applying leadership and management in planning: Theory and by Janet Morphet

The Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

Towns form the lives and outlooks of billions of individuals, but they've been overshadowed in modern political notion via geographical regions, id teams, and ideas like justice and freedom. The Spirit of towns revives the classical concept that a urban expresses its personal detailed ethos or values.

Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities (SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences)

The variety of megacities all over the world is quickly expanding and modern towns also are increasing quickly. for that reason, towns and their population have gotten more and more liable to the results of catastrophic average occasions comparable to severe climate occasions (recently extra widespread and severe because of the ongoing weather changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced occasions akin to terrorist assaults or injuries.

International Intervention in a Secular Age: Re-Enchanting Humanity? (Interventions)

Foreign intervention is not only approximately ‘saving’ human lives: it's also an try and safe humanity’s position within the universe. This ebook explores the Western secular ideals that underpin modern practices of intervention—most importantly, ideals approximately existence, dying and the dominance of humanity.

Governance in South Asia: State of the Civil Services

The ebook for the 1st time deals a accomplished and modern account of the country of civil prone in South Asia nations. It brings jointly studies of former senior bureaucrats and critics from India and different SAARC international locations to verify the kingdom of civil provider and the necessity for reforms.