Envision Planner

Envision Planner
Author: Nicole Meline
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734235708

A transformational planner envisioning the next 90-days as a dance between hustle and flow. Designed by Nicole Meline, founder of ALTER, Envision is a map heartward. Soulful architecture for your next season. A tool to design your days on purpose, while open and attentive to the unexpected.While most planners assume goal-oriented rigidity and measure success with metrics of productivity, Envision celebrates both hustle and flow-purposeful, intentional direction, as well as unfolding paths, curve balls, swerves, and the graces that come along with surprises. Success measured by the metrics of joy, wonder, wellness, creativity, community. Clear goals. Flexible means. Progress over perfection. Less 'to do.' More 'to be.' Practices to attune to all the ways you are being led, invited, mended, matured, transformed, illuminated, supported, amplified.- Envision is undated, so you can begin anytime, any year.- Introductory pages guide you to vision-cast your next three months in light of core categories-body, spirit, mind, community, romance, family, nourishment, economy, digital engagement, work, celebrations, and adventure-with rich questions and igniting journaling exercises.- Daily pages invite you to map your day in light of intentions, gratitude, workout and meditation, your schedule of appointments-reimagined as encounters-and ample space for what you want to create, prayers, and the unexpected luck, grace, extra that invaded your day. Each daily page faces a blank journal page for you to sketch, scribble, expound.- Each 31 days of daily pages is followed by a month-at-a-glace page for you to map events and celebrations, as well as pages to reflect and integrate the wisdom of the past month-what worked? what didn't?-and envision intentions for the month ahead.- Subtly luxe cover with gilded lettering, gold coil binding, a back cover pocket to stash important poems, receipts, totems, and an elastic chord to mark a page or keep your planner closed in your handbag, saddlebag, wilderness survival kit.The Envision Planner extends the vision of Alter, a movement practice, podcast, and soulful adventure retreats led by Nicole Meline, exploring transformation as a conversation between hustle and flow, based at altertogether.com.

Instruments of Planning

Instruments of Planning
Author: Rebecca Leshinsky
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317607880

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning’s instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes. Because each instrument is unique and may be tailored to its own jurisdictional needs, Instruments of Planning is a compendium of case studies from urban regions in Australia, Canada, the United States and Europe, providing readers with a collection that critically challenges the role and potential of planning instruments and instrumentality across a range of contexts. Instruments of Planning captures the political, institutional, and economic challenges that confront planning. It examines planning instruments designed to assist with strategic planning and implementation, and considers the role that technology plays in unpacking and understanding complexity in planning. Written by Rebecca Leshinsky and Crystal Legacy of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, this book fills the gap in planning theory about the instrumentality of planning in the neoliberal urban context. It is essential reading for students, urban researchers, policy analysts and planning practitioners.

Strategy Representation

Strategy Representation
Author: Andrew S. Gordon
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004-07-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1135625255

Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge describes an innovative methodology for investigating the conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns of planning behavior that people recognize across a broad range of real world situations. With a sense of scale that is rarely seen in the cognitive sciences, this book catalogs 372 strategies across 10 different planning domains: business practices, education, object counting, Machiavellian politics, warfare, scientific discovery, personal relationships, musical performance, and the anthropomorphic strategies of animal behavior and cellular immunology. Noting that strategies often serve as the basis for analogies that people draw across planning situations, this work attempts to explain these analogies by defining the fundamental concepts that are common across all instances of each strategy. By aggregating evidence from each of the strategy definitions provided, the representational requirements of strategic planning are identified. The important finding is that the concepts that underlie strategic reasoning are of incredibly broad scope. Nearly 1,000 fundamental concepts are identified, covering every existing area of knowledge representation research and many areas that have not yet been adequately formalized, particularly those related to common sense understanding of mental states and processes. An organization of these concepts into 48 fundamental areas of knowledge and representation is provided, offering an invaluable roadmap for progress within the field.

Site Planning

Site Planning
Author: Gary Hack
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0262344432

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.

Becoming an Urban Planner

Becoming an Urban Planner
Author: Michael Bayer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2011-10-20
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1118174356

Becoming an URBAN PLANNER Are you considering a career in urban planning? Becoming an Urban Planner is the best place to start. Through in-depth interviews with more than eighty urban planners across the United States and Canada, this book gives you a valuable insider’s look at your future profession as it is lived and practiced. Becoming an Urban Planner introduces you to the urban planning profession—its history, what you must know to prepare for a career in planning, and the different types of planning jobs. Beyond the basics, though, it shows you the realities of what it’s really like to be a planner today. You’ll learn about: The skills you’ll need and how to hone them in school and on the job Potential career paths and what people in these positions do Using internships, job shadowing, and other opportunities to break into the field Deciding among planning specialties and moving between public and private sectors How to search for and get your first position Emerging areas in planning, including sustainability and climate change Each topic is explored through in-depth interviews with both generalists and others who have devoted their careers to a particular aspect of planning. These professionals share their insights and describe how they have arrived at where they are and how beginners like you can learn from their experiences. With the information from this book to guide and inspire you, you will be able to chart your own path to success as an urban planner.

Planning

Planning
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2005
Genre: City planning
ISBN:

Designing Your Life

Designing Your Life
Author: Bill Burnett
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 110187533X

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Planning

Planning
Author: Anne Plancher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781889630786

How to Use Exploratory Scenario Planning (Xsp)

How to Use Exploratory Scenario Planning (Xsp)
Author: Jeremy Stapleton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781558444058

Exploratory scenario planning (XSP) can help communities prepare for uncertainties posed by climate change, pandemics, automation, and other unprecedented twenty-first-century challenges. This manual is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in using this emergent planning approach, which is effective at the local, regional, or organizational level. Through the XSP process, stakeholders envision and develop various potential futures (i.e., scenarios) and consider how to measure and prepare for each, rather than working toward a single shared vision for the future. Through instructive case studies, recommendations, sample workshop agendas, and more, this manual equips would-be practitioners with the background knowledge, procedural guidance, and practical strategies to implement this planning tool successfully. Readers will be prepared to facilitate--or even lead--an effective, impactful XSP process in their own settings.

Envisionary Management

Envisionary Management
Author: Willliam P. Anthony
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1988-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Based on extensive research and consulting experience, the authors of this book affirm that an organization's managerial performance as well as an individual's own personal effectiveness can be greatly enhanced through the Use of mental imagery or visualization techniques. Mental imagery allows its practitioners to learn about management through mental as well as actual practice. It effectively generates a performance orientation in which the individual is required to rehearse specific behaviors for optimum results. The practice of mental imagery techniques are not altogether new. Their application in the field of management, however, represents a valuable innovation that will be of special interest to a wide variety of managerial professionals and the people who train them.