Choices 2 : Creating Our Future. The Livable Region Strategic Plan
Author: Greater Vancouver Regional District
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Published: 1992
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Author: Greater Vancouver Regional District
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Published: 1992
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tamar Henkin
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 0309258693
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 159: Transforming Public Transportation Institutional and Business Models offers strategy for defining and implementing transformative change in institutional and business models, thus facilitating the operation and maintenance of public transportation systems. The report identifies the components of transformative change and examines potential consequences of change. " -- pub. desc.
Author: Gerald Hodge
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2007-10-01
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 0774845279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlanning Canadian Regions is the first book to consolidate the history, evolution, current practice, and future prospects for regional planning in Canada. As planners grapple with challenges wrought by globalization, the evolution of massive new city-regions, and the pressures for sustainable and community economic development, a deeper understanding of Canada’s approaches is invaluable. Hodge and Robinson identify the intellectual and conceptual foundations of regional planning and review the history and main modes of regional planning for rural regions, economic development regions, resource development regions, and metropolitan and city-regions. They draw lessons from Canada’s past experience and conclude by proposing a new paradigm addressing the needs of regional planning now and in the future, emphasizing regional governance, greater inclusiveness and integration of physical planning with planning for economic sustainability and natural ecosystems. Planning Canadian Regions will be a much-needed text for students and teachers of regional planning and an indispensable reference for planning practitioners. It will also find a receptive audience in such disciplines as urban planning, environmental studies, geography, political science, public administration, and economics.
Author: Katherine A. Graham
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration of Canada
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780920715789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Zack Taylor
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 0773558438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive ecosystems, water supplies, and food security. Existing urban infrastructure is crumbling while governments struggle to pay for new and expanded services. Can our inherited urban governance institutions and policies effectively respond to these problems? In Shaping the Metropolis Zack Taylor compares the historical development of American and Canadian urban governance, both at the national level and through specific metropolitan case studies. Examining Minneapolis–St Paul and Portland, Oregon, in the United States, and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada, Taylor shows how differences in the structure of governing institutions in American states and Canadian provinces cumulatively produced different forms of urban governance. Arguing that since the nineteenth century American state governments have responded less effectively to rapid urban growth than Canadian provinces, he shows that the concentration of authority in Canadian provincial governments enabled the rapid adoption of coherent urban policies after the Second World War, while dispersed authority in American state governments fostered indecision and catered to parochial interests. Most contemporary policy problems and their solutions are to be found in cities. Shaping the Metropolis shows that urban governance encompasses far more than local government, and that states and provinces have always played a central role in responding to urban policy challenges and will continue to do so in the future.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 918
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ken Cameron
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Published: 2009-12-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1926706811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime and again, Vancouver is recognized internationally as one of the best places to live. It achieved that reputation by breaking rules and forging its own brand of North American urbanism. City Making in Paradise details the nine most important decisions made in the Greater Vancouver region since the 1940s. Authors Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron, themselves key players in several of these developments, reveal the political machinations, the ideological struggles and the personal commitment that lay behind each one. By tracing today’s successes back to their roots, they illustrate their central theme; that cities are the result of the daily choices we make as leaders, activists and citizens.