Author: Nick Wates
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: community, planning, part, tools, villages, world, cities, handbook, people, shape, towns
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 1853836540
ISBN-13: 9781853836541

Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful range of methods 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

Author: Nick Wates
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: planning, community, improve, tools, events, environment, urban, event, manual, collaborative, design
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-08
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 firs

Authors:Nick Albery, Nick Temple, Henrietta Bowen,
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: social, inventions, encyclopedia, ideas, greatest, world
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0865714436
ISBN-13: 9780865714434

This unique encyclopedia brings together the best and most creative ideas from around the world for solving social ills and improving the quality of life. This smörgasbord of innovations-from the practical to the imaginative to the quirky -- is brought together by The Institute for Social Inventions whose sole purpose is to encourage, collect, publicize, and put into action visionary social inventions. According to the editors, nothing is ever "dull" or "worthy"...

Authors:Dr Nick Tiratsoo, Nick Tiratsoo, Jim Tomlinson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, explorations, economic, history, years, wasted, industrial, efficiency, thirteen, conservatives
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-09-14
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0415158702
ISBN-13: 9780415158701

The Conservatives and Industrial Efficiency, 1951-1964 responds to the need for a full assessment of the Conservatives performance in this crucial period. Drawing upon a wide range of archival sources, Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson explore the different aspects of the efficiency question. Beginning with the major issue of attempts in the 1950s to americanize British industry, the authors also discuss the Conservatives policy on ompetition, education and training, investment and research and development. This new survey reveals that the Conservatives were informed about each of these issues,

Author: Nick Ray
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: guide, country, cambodia
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1741043174
ISBN-13: 9781741043174

Discover CambodiaSunrise or sunset? Discover the perfect light to greet the 216 faces of Angkor’s Bayon templePound, whisk and sizzle your way through a cooking course in Siem Reap (and don’t skimp on the fermented fish paste)Detour off the temple trail for snorkelling and sunset cocktails on Serendipity BeachFeel the buzz in Phnom Penh: from bustling backstreets to relaxed riverside barsIn This Guide:Unmatched off-the-beaten-track coverage: from jungles in the southwest to remote mountains in the northIncludes information on the best ecotourism and community-run projects in the co

Author: Nick Ray
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: guide, country, cambodia
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 1740595254
ISBN-13: 9781740595254

As peace finally returns to this last corner of Indochina, visitors are once again making their way to the magnificent Hindu-Buddhist ruins of Angkor. This new title has been developed from the Travel Survival Kit to Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia. 16 pages of color photos.

Author: Nick Ray
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: guide, country, vietnam
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 1741043069
ISBN-13: 9781741043068

Discover Vietnam Lie back on your very own junk and enjoy the languid beauty of Halong Bay’s limestone outcrops, p.136. Get lost in Hanoi’s Old Quarter; sup on streetside pho and toast your fellow diners with a bia hoi, p. 95. Squeeze into the Cu Chi Tunnels and marvel at the engineering ingenuity that kept the VC hidden from enemy fire, p.378. Join the locals in an afternoon pick-me-up of snake’s heart and a cup of serpent blood, p.48 In This Guide: Three authors, 133 days of in-country research and 105 maps - more than any other guide. Content