Hugh Barton

Marcus Grant

Richard Guise

This substantially revised and important second edition comes at a pivotal time, with both a strong agenda of localism in planning and with public health professionals now realising the vital importance of shaping urban environments in order to reduce the burden of disease and support better health outcomes. This guide ensures you: understand the underlying principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods and towns plan the collaborative and inclusive processes needed for multi-sectoral cooperation develop know-how and skills in matching local need with urban form discover new ways to integrate development with natural systems design places with character and recognise good urban form guide communities, and advise developers, in the creation of successful and sustainable places for living. Containing many new case studies and a wealth of new research, this new edition has benefited from previous user feedback. Shaping Neighbourhoods is the indispensable guide for bridging the gulf between theory and practice, between planning authorities, investors and communities, and between different professional perspectives. Whether you are a student faced with a local planning project; a planner, urban designer or developer involved in new development; a health authority concerned with promoting physical activity; or a community group wanting to improve your neighbourhood; this book is for you.

For Local Health and Global Sustainability

Shaping Neighbourhoods

For many Britons France has provided their first taste of that alien world called 'abroad' - and sometimes their last. Richard Guise has tracked down ten travellers' tales from three centuries, before venturing forth himself to follow some of their wanderings across the country. He finds out what's left from the sights they saw and how dramatically the country and its people changed over these turbulent times - taking in the years of the Grand Tour, the Revolution and the Napoleonic era; the coming of the railways, holidays and guide books; two world wars, recovery and prosperity; and the twenty-first-century threat of terrorism. His virtual companions include two Grand Tourers (Philip Thicknesse and Tobias Smollett - nicknamed Smelfungus), the man rumoured to have inspired Karl Baedeker, a future chairman of London County Council and Richard's own father, a D-Day survivor. They're not all complimentary about France and the French...

Around France with Thicknesse and Smelfungus

Si dice Catalogna e subito si pensa a Barcellona, alle sue spiagge, a Gaudí e alla movida. Ma la Catalogna è molto più di questo. Per scoprire i lati nascosti di questa terra insieme frenetica e selvaggia, Richard Guise, in sella alla bicicletta Benny, ha percorso quattrocento chilometri di vie secondarie costiere e collinari intorno a Barcellona. Nel suo viaggio lento tra coste bellissime e speroni di roccia abitati solo dalle capre, ha scoperto una nazione nella nazione, con una lingua e una cultura proprie, ha conosciuto gli abitanti del posto, scoperto come si balla la sardana, imparato cosa si fa in una bugaderia. Un viaggio originale e ricco di aneddoti divertenti, foto e informazioni pratiche sulle tappe.

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