Site Planning

Site Planning
Author: Gary Hack
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0262534851

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art guide to site planning, covering planning processes, new technologies, and sustainability, with extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Cities are built site by site. Site planning—the art and science of designing settlements on the land—encompasses a range of activities undertaken by architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and engineers. This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to site planning that is global in scope. It covers planning processes and standards, new technologies, sustainability, and cultural context, addressing the roles of all participants and stakeholders and offering extensive treatment of practices in rapidly urbanizing countries. Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack wrote the classic text on the subject, and this book takes up where the earlier book left off. It can be used as a textbook and will be an essential reference for practitioners. Site Planning consists of forty self-contained modules, organized into five parts: The Art of Site Planning, which presents site planning as a shared enterprise; Understanding Sites, covering the components of site analysis; Planning Sites, covering the processes involved; Site Infrastructure, from transit to waste systems; and Site Prototypes, including housing, recreation, and mixed use. Each module offers a brief introduction, covers standards or approaches, provides examples, and presents innovative practices in sidebars. The book is lavishly illustrated with 1350 photographs, diagrams, and examples of practice.

The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s

The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s
Author: Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1000994155

This book explores various social, cultural, political and economic issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the twenty-first century, including the Olympic Games, and the World Cup and European Championships in football. In a time where sport mega-events are closely followed by controversies, legacy discourses and questions of their governance, the chapters within this book showcase why sport mega-events continue to ignite important questions for scholars, commentators, fans and sport and political authorities. By covering various topics emerging around sport mega-events such as physical activity, legacies, rhetoric, media coverage, environmental impacts, diplomacy and spectators' experiences, this book breaks new ground as it considers a range of longstanding and emerging socio-political issues relating broadly to the staging of spectacular sport mega-events in the present-day. This is a fascinating reading for students and researchers situated in sociology, sport management, event management, political science, sport studies, sport business, urban studies and leisure studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

No Meat Athlete

No Meat Athlete
Author: Matt Frazier
Publisher: Fair Winds Press (MA)
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1592335780

"Combining the winning elements of proven training approaches, motivational stories, and innovative recipes, No Meat Athlete is a unique guidebook, healthy-living cookbook, and nutrition primer for the beginner, every day, and serious athlete who wants to live a meatless lifestyle. Author and popular blogger, Matt Frazier, will show you that there are many benefits to embracing a meat-free athletic lifestyle, including: Weight loss, which often leads to increased speed; Easier digestion and faster recovery after workouts; Improved energy levels to help with not just athletic performance but your day-to-day life; Reduced impact on the planet. Whatever your motivation for choosing a meat-free lifestyle, this book will take you through everything you need to know to apply your lifestyle to your training. Matt Frazier provides practical advice and tips on how to transition to a plant-based diet while getting all the nutrition you need; uses the power of habit to make those changes last; and offers up menu plans for high performance, endurance, and recovery. Once you've mastered the basics, Matt delivers a training manual of his own design for runners of all abilities and ambitions. The manual provides training plans for common race distances and shows runners how to create healthy habits, improve performance, and avoid injuries. No Meat Athlete will take you from the start to finish line, giving you encouraging tips, tricks, and advice along the way"--

E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 1775
Release: 2018-06-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1522556478

As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. E-planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards urban environments. E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications contains a compendium of the latest academic material on the emerging interdisciplinary areas of e-planning and collaboration. Including innovative studies on data management, urban development, and crowdsourcing, this multi-volume book is an ideal source for planners, policymakers, researchers, and graduate students interested in how recent technological advancements are enhancing the traditional practices in e-planning.

2020 Guide to Small Business Tax Planning

2020 Guide to Small Business Tax Planning
Author: Dr. Charles E. Hall PhD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1664119337

Federal and state tax laws are an integral part of business ventures, whether the business is a small sole-proprietorship, partnership or corporate entity. No matter if we like it or not, government, is a business partner which can be a burden, as well as, a useful tool for business growth. The United States Tax Code is very complicated. It is written as the Internal Revenue Code which is Title 26 of the United States Code. The Internal Revenue Code comprises some 10,000 plus pages and is further defined in the Internal Revenue Regulations which is written in some 10,000,000 plus pages. The intent of this book is to provide general guidance to small business. The books chapters provide accounting definitions, regulations and explanation in detail how business is created from its inception and what small business must do in order to be successful. Planning techniques for ongoing business ventures, as well as, retirement planning vehicles are explained. The book takes the business owner from the first day he or she opens their business, through the closure of the business. If the business owner is subjected to an examination by IRS, this book outlines the functions, procedures, rules and regulations that taxpayers and the IRS must follow.

Encyclopedia of Sport Management

Encyclopedia of Sport Management
Author: Paul M Pedersen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 1131
Release: 2024-09-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1035317184

This thoroughly updated second edition of the Encyclopedia of Sport Management is an authoritative reference work that provides detailed explanations of critical concepts within the field.

Organize Tomorrow Today

Organize Tomorrow Today
Author: Jason Selk
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0738218693

In the spirit of business/self-help hits such as Darren Hardy's The Compound Effect, a simple formula for productivity and success, from a prominent sports psychologist and a star business coach who join forces to offer seven fundamental skills for improving your habits and achieving peak performance in work and life.

Scenario Planning

Scenario Planning
Author: Woody Wade
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2012-03-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118237412

Is your business ready for the future? Scenario planning is a fascinating, yet still underutilized, business tool that can be of immense value to a company's strategic planning process. It allows companies to visualize the impact that a portfolio of possible futures could have on their competitiveness. It helps decision-makers see opportunities and threats that could emerge beyond their normal planning horizon. Scenario Planning serves as a guide to taking a long-term look at your business, your industry, and the world, posing thoughtful questions about the possible consequences of some current (and possible future) trends. This book will help you: Outline (and help you prepare for) any trends that could play out in the future that could change the political, social, and economic landscapes and significantly impact your business Explore the impact of technological advances and the emergence of new competitors to your business Examine challenges that are only dimly recognizable as potential problems today This visual book will help you answer this question: Is my organization ready for every possibility?

Direct Tax including Tax Planning & Management AY 2020-21

Direct Tax including Tax Planning & Management AY 2020-21
Author: Dr. H.C. Mehrotra, Dr. S.P. Goyal
Publisher: Sahitya Bhawan Publications
Total Pages: 1092
Release: 2020-07-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9383866497

The present 41st edition of the book has been thoroughly revised in the light of the amendments made by The Income Tax Act, 1961; The Income Tax Rules, 1962, (as amended up-to-date); The Finance Act, 2019, the Finance (No. 2) Act, 2019, the Finance Act, 2020 and the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019 as applicable to Assessment Year 2020-21 and the Latest Circulars and Notifications of C.B.D.T. The salient features of the book are : The language of the book is simple and lucid. All important aspects of Tax Planning and Management for the Assessment Years 2020-21 and 2021-22 have been included in the book. Small illustrations and examples are given for ticklish law points so as to make them easy and self-explanatory for students to understand the subject. Provisions of Taxation and other Laws (Relaxation of Certain Provisions) Ordinance, 2020 dated 31.3.2020 have been incorporated in the book. In the chapter ‘‘Deduction and Collection of Tax at Source’’ reduced rates applicable for the period from 14.5.2020 to 31.3.2021 have been incorporated. All important case laws and circulars/notifications reported upto June 2020 have been incorporated. At the end of the book salient features of ‘‘Direct Tax Vivad se Vishwas Act, 2020’’ have been incorporated. More than 500 solved illustrations have been given in various chapters from the questions set for examinations conducted by the various Universities.

Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018-2030

Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018-2030
Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2019-01-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9241514183

Regular physical activity is proven to help prevent and treat noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease stroke diabetes and breast and colon cancer. It also helps to prevent hypertension overweight and obesity and can improve mental health quality of life and well-being. In addition to the multiple health benefits of physical activity societies that are more active can generate additional returns on investment including a reduced use of fossil fuels cleaner air and less congested safer roads. These outcomes are interconnected with achieving the shared goals political priorities and ambition of the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030. The new WHO global action plan to promote physical activity responds to the requests by countries for updated guidance and a framework of effective and feasible policy actions to increase physical activity at all levels. It also responds to requests for global leadership and stronger regional and national coordination and the need for a whole-of-society response to achieve a paradigm shift in both supporting and valuing all people being regularly active according to ability and across the life course. The action plan was developed through a worldwide consultation process involving governments and key stakeholders across multiple sectors including health sports transport urban design civil society academia and the private sector.