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For the past century, governments have been compelled, time and again, to return to the search for solutions to the housing and economic challenges posed by a restructuring countryside. The rural housing question is an analysis of the complexity of housing and development tensions in the rural areas of England, Wales and Scotland. It analyses a range of topics: from attitudes to rural development, economic change, land use, planning and counter-urbanisation; through retirement and ageing, leisure consumption, lifestyle shifts and homelessness; to public and private house building, private and public renting and community initiatives. Across this spectrum of concerns, it attempts to isolate the fundamental tensions that give the rural housing question an intractable quality. The book is aimed at policy makers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the future of the British countryside.
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In the early 2000s there was intense concern about the sustainability of local housing markets in parts of the north of England. Nine Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders were set up in 2003 as long term market restructuring initiatives, aimed at transforming residential neighbourhoods and securing sustainability in their local housing markets. Did the Pathfinders arrest the collapse in prices and demand in these neighbourhood? This book assesses the effectiveness of housing market restructuring initiatives, and asks how the nine areas are fairing during the current recession. It also looks at the wider lessons for building sustainable markets that we can learn from the Pathfinders. The authors have been closely involved in the development and monitoring of the programme and are ideally placed to analyse its results.
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Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and perceptions of mobility and accessibility in city-regions. Looking at evidence from Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, it considers the meaning of the key concepts of sustainable accessibility, the spatial planning model, and integrated territorial policies.
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The book presents a comprehensive overview of relevant theory, including the socio-spatial characteristics of neighbourhoods and cities; the place of individuals and households in the economic system; and the design form of the housing stock in relation to its usability, valuation, and adaptability.
Next, it evaluates the urban renewal plans that the city of Rotterdam launched in the seventies, drawing international attention at the time, leading to changes in the structures of housing provision, as well as the economic and social context. The author makes his case by evaluating a major urban renewal plan that has been tested for over 30 years, and connects the academic theory and debate with professional practice.
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Inspired by Times Square, Toronto wanted the Dundas Square area to capture entertainment and impulse spending by tourists and residents. As with similar redevelopments in Europe and the United States, a labyrinth of players, policies, and legislation -- conflicting theories, arguments, and ambitions -- eventually sidelined the public-planning function. The usual explanation in these cases is that the influence of money and politics superseded the planning process.
But this book exposes the cracks in planning itself, revealing how its theories - based on the premise that space is a social construction - do not help practicing planners, who need a broader understanding of urbanism in which to find and persuasively argue for creative solutions to post-industrial problems. The findings drawn from this case will be widely recognized in redevelopment challenges elsewhere, and thus will be extremely useful to students and practitioners of urban design, public administration, municipal law, and urban and regional planning.
Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In the "Planners' Encounter with Complexity", the authors present various understandings of complexity and how the environment is considered accordingly. One of these considerations is the environment as subject to processes of continuous change, being either progressive or destructive, evolving non-linearly and alternating between stable and dynamic periods. If the environment that is subject to change is adaptive, self-organizing, robust and flexible in relation to this change, a process of evolution and co-evolution can be expected. This understanding of an evolving environment is not mainstream to every planner. However, in this book the authors argue that environments confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes might be more real than the idea that an environment is simply a planner's creation. Above all, they argue that recognizing the 'complexity' of our environment offers an entirely new perspective on our world and our environment, on planning theory and practice, and on the raise on d'etre of the planners that we are.
The book is above all concerned with demonstrating how sustainable urban development can be delivered in practice. It will be essential reading for students, academics and professionals in planning, urban design and architecture world-wide working to achieve sustainability.
It explores the different modes by which a sustainable urban environment can be delivered through the interface of public policy and urban development. It offers an original framework for considering governing processes with an emphasis on learning through networks. Chapters look at spatial planning, regulation, the provision of information and fiscal measures.
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In this revised and updated edition of their 1992 book Separate Societies, the authors present a compelling examination of the damaging divisions that isolate poor city minority residents from the middle-class suburban majority. It vividly documents how the urban working class has been pushed out of industrial jobs through global economic restructuring, and how the Wall Street meltdown has aggravated underemployment, depleted public services, and sharpened racial and class inequalities. As such, the authors urge the Obama administration to create better urban policy and foster better metropolitan management to effectively and efficiently promote equality.
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A rich and inspiring read, written with authority, deep understanding and extraordinary clarity by one of the world’s leading planning scholars.– Alessandro Balducci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
In this major reassessment of what planning can and should achieve, Patsy Healey sets out a radical but realistic agenda which will be essential reading for practitioners and an ideal introduction for students entering the field.
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Stefanie Dühr, Claire Colomb & Vincent Nadin, European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation, Routledge, 2010, 480p
Written for students, academics, practitioners and researchers of spatial planning and related disciplines, this book is essential reading for everybody interested in engaging with the European dimension of spatial planning and territorial governance.
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The book presents ideas the authors have developed over the past 20 years of research and practice. It is designed for scholars, graduate students, and practitioners. The book pulls together new case material and new theory to offer a way of understanding and conducting collaborative policy and planning and point toward future directions for the field. The hope is that it will be useful in courses as well as research and practice.
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Patsy Healey, Robert Upton: Crossing Borders: International Exchange and Planning Practices, Routledge, 2010, 392p
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Planning theory has undergone significant changes in recent decades. The revised and updated second edition of this popular text provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of these changes, how they relate to planning practice, and their significance. It is an essential guide to current planning theory and the post-positivist perspective.
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Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is a fairly rapidly evolving maturity and sophistication in how strategies are developed and produced. Crucially, the authors argue that the reworked boundaries of spatial planning means that to understand it we need to look as much outside the formal system of practices of ‘planning’ as within it ...
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Bringing together an interdisciplinary team from across the EU, this book connects elements of cultural and planning theories to explain differences and peculiarities among EU member states. A 'culturized planning model' is introduced to consider the 'rules of the game': how culture affects planning practices not only on an explicit 'surface' but also on a 'hidden' implicit level. The model consists of three analytical dimensions: 'planning artifacts', 'planning environment' and 'societal environment'. This book adopts these dimensions to compare planning cultures of different European countries.This sheds light not only on the organizational or institutional structure of planning, but also the influence of deeper cultural values and layers on planning and implementation processes
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In France, since the 1980ies, regulatory land-use planning was under pressure. At the turn of the millenium, the French planning system has undergone a deep reform aiming to promote more strategic approaches. In 1999 and 2000, three major laws have reset the scene. The loi Chevènement has modified the framework of municipal cooperation. The loi Voyet has created a participative process for the establishment of strategic spatial visions. The loi Solidarité et Renouvellement Urbains has reformed the regulatory planning documents. This thesis analyses the reform and its implementation, showing its achievements but also its limits.
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Planning Sustainable Cities reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and ageing, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality. It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes
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are the likely long‐term implications of this shift to Asia for the
cities and regions of Europe? To just ‘wait and see’ cannot be the
response, nor the hope that the attractiveness of Asia will diminish
over time and that the economic growth will slow down. Will Europe be
able to retain its economic power?
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European Union has no formal competence for territorial governance.
However, initiated the integration process in the sign of 'cohesion',
the EU and its Member States are jointly engaged since the 1990s in
several programmes and projects of spatial and local development,
involving regions and cities. EU territorial governance is both context
and output of such complex initiatives, which are modifyning some
consolidated planning practices and theories. Based on research
developed within the ESPON international network, this book proposes
the state of scientific debate about EU territorial governance.
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Globalization initiates competition between spaces. Cities
and regions develop strategies to enhance territorial attractiveness
and competitiveness. In this book, academics and practitioners debate
abtout this evolution, building on the case of two French regions of
the Paris basin. The book results from a conference organised by IATEUR, Reims, France, in June 2006.
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consideration of ethics in social research has gained increasing
prominence in the past few years, particularly research which seeks to
inform public policy. This important and unique book provides a
thorough examination of the issues relating to research ethics in
planning for an international audience. The authors examine alternative
frameworks within which ethical action can be discussed and critically
describe the key institutional arrangements surrounding the management
of ethical behaviour in research. Also included are highly relevant
accounts of ethical challenges faced in planning research. This book results from a research of the AESOP Thematic Group on Ethics and Planning.
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Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened its environmental dimension and has become a new rationale for coordinating actions and integrating different policy priorities.This book sets out the economic, social and environmental challenges that climate change raises for urban and regional planners and explores current and potential responses. These are set within the context of recent research and scholarly works on the role of spatial planning in combating climate change...
AESOP members will get a 20% discount if using the code AF20 when ordering through the publisher's website.
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This book takes a new institutionalist approach in explaining the planning and development of large retail developments in Europe.
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Since borders that have been closed for over forty years are opening up, Central Europe is undergoing dramatic changes and facing huge challenges. Situated in Central Europe, the Vienna-Bratislava-Györ area straddling Austria, Hungary and Slovakia explores new opportunities for co-operation and integration. The book gives a fascinating view of the practice of European policy making on transnational level, at the same time treating this area is a laboratory for EU territorial cohesion policy. It investigates ways of conceptualising space, thereby identifying its potentials on a transnational level. In addition, it explores how this polycentric region is dealing with its territorial potential to play in a higher league in the competition between places as forming the core of a possible Global Economic Integration Zone in Central Europe.
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34 pioneers and witnesses to history of Swiss spatial planning who created "spatial facts" in the 1960s and 1970s had been interviewed in a research project by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology" in 2006/07. This book documents their statements and discloses the relationship of the instituionalization of Swiss spatial planning to contemporary history. The challenges Swiss spatial planning is faced is very similar to other European countries and, therefore, the conclusions drawn by the witnesses to history are interesting and instructing for readers beyond Swiss borders.
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Pedestrian mobility and the regeneration of the European city centre Spatial Metro, a project largely funded by the EU, aims to make city visits more enjoyable for pedestrians by making cities easier to navigate, easier to walk around and easier to understand and appreciate. This is achieved in various ways, including illuminating characteristic buildings, providing ‘metro style’ maps as well as appropriate information and signposting for pedestrians and the application of GPS technology. Together with municipalities and universities, five cities (Norwich, Bristol, Rouen, Koblenz and Biel/Bienne) in North West Europe have carried out pilot studies and exchanged experiences.
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John Pendlebury provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation in the historic environment both in its evolution and in its relationship to wider societal and economic forces. The book introduces ideas about the meanings of historic environments and the values of those who seek to protect them and how these translate into public policies of conservation. UK practice is used as a means, along with international examples, for bringing together a real understanding of practice with a sympathetic social science analysis of the issues. The author explores beneath and beyond the rarely challenged consensus of the conservation of the historic environment as an important goal of public policy.
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This book examines the ways in which the new wave of spatial planning in the latter part of the 20th Century has been informed by the concepts of space and place and how these concepts have been used in the construction of plans. The authors, both academics and practitioners, provide an historical analysis of the different ways in which the notions of space and place have been adopted in planning thought and practice. Also, through an exploration of recent experiences of strategic spatial plan making in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, they consider the ways in which contemporary spatial planning practices employ ideas about space and place. Using six illustrative case studies of practice, this book examines which conceptions of space and place have been articulated, presented and visualised through the production of spatial strategies. It brings together leading planning researchers, producing accounts of spatial strategy making that are theoretically informed, empirically grounded and practice relevant. While there is widespread support for re-orienting planning towards space and place, there has been little common understanding about what constitutes ‘spatial planning’, and what conceptions of space and place underpin it. This book addresses these questions and stimulates debate and critical thinking about space and place among academic and professional planners.
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Tracking technologies such as GPS, mobile phone tracing, video and RFID monitoring are rapidly becoming part of daily life. Technological progress offers huge possibilities for studying human activity patterns in time and space in new ways. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) held an international expert meeting in early 2007 to investigate the current and future possibilities and limitations of the application of tracking technologies in urban design and spatial planning. This book is the result of that expert meeting.Urbanism on Track introduces the reader to the basics of tracking research and provides insight into its advantages above other research techniques. But it also shows the bottlenecks in gathering and processing data and applying research results to real-life problems. Urbanism on Track showcases tracking experiments in urban studies, planning and design – from pedestrian navigation in Austria to Danish field tests, from TU Delft's Spatial Metro project to MIT's Real Time Rome and last but not least the Sense of the City project realised in Eindhoven.
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The aim of this book, which is primarily intended for students, professionals, and public officials, is to illustrate the activity of urban design by defining and describing a process. The primary aim of the text is not to explain how to design a city portion, a precinct or a public space, but what steps need to be completed in order to reach the final outcome. A process model applied, as in this case, to urban design is a way of managing the internal dynamics of a projects. It is a means to help designers in their role of project manager. A role which is to plan, to control, and to co-ordinate a project from conception to completion. Urban Design proposes a nine-step design process that is described in nine chapters. For each phase of the process, the book provides descriptions, principles, examples and references to Italian and International case studies, and to a wide literature. Along the whole book, the Italian text is faced by the English text.
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Urban revitalization is a long process, and its success depends on social innovations. Just as with technological developments, it is almost impossible to predict which social innovations will be effective. Only in retrospect can we say, something special has happened here - and it’s been going on for a long time. The book looks at bottom up initiatives, where residents and local organizations took charge and took risks to improve their living conditions and to build a new future. The book presents case studies of a series of initiatives which have borne fruit over a long period of time: the revitalized industrial areas of Montreal, those of Mondragon in the Basque country, the Eldonian projects in Liverpool, the search for urban scenarios in Jerusalem, as well as cases in Nicaragua, Peru, France, the Netherlands and EU-wide projects.
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This book takes a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural look at mass appraisal expertise for property valuation in different market conditions, and offers some cutting- edge approaches. With its exceptionally wide coverage of valuation issues, Mass Appraisal Methods: an international perspective for property valuers addresses property valuation problems common to different countries and approaches applicable in both developed and emerging economies.
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The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of different housing finance systems, presenting a collection of studies that describe various aspects of selected mortgage markets around the world. The uniqueness of the chosen markets lies in the fact that they represent not only different regions around the globe (Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe), but also understudied markets in different stages of economic and financial development. This book examines questions relating to housing finance efficiency and contract heterogeneity. In addition, it analyses the securitization experiences in these countries to provide lessons on how mortgage markets are integrated with capital markets and how particular institutional framework interacts with mortgage markets.
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Urban Networks – Network Urbanism is a collection of key articles by Gabriel Dupuy on the relation between urban infrastructure networks and urban development. His work on ‘network urbanism’ has been a primary source in the French and Spanish speaking world for two decades and this book provides the first overview of his work in English. Dupuy’s work stands out for its concreteness and clarity. This makes his work readily applicable in the context of spatial planning.
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Empowering the Planning Fields' contains contributions from many authors from all over the world exploring current issues and discourses in the 'Planning Fields'. It deals with a broad spectrum of topics which illustrates the complexity of the issues the planning discipline is wrestling with. The authors raise fundamental issues and develop substantiated arguments which, as Klaus Kunzmann formulated, constitute a task for 'a new generation' of planners, academics and practitioners. This book is also a tribute to Louis Albrechts, a 'champion scholar' at the Planning department at the K.U.Leuven, to commemorate his attainment of emeritus status but most of all his work in the Planning Fields.
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Planning from the Bottom up highlights the gap between the official rhetoric and the political reality of democratic decentralisation and bottom-up planning using an in-depth study of the metropolitan planning process in Kolkata, India. The key issue addressed here is how elected officials at different governmental levels, professional planners, and ordinary citizens interact in the process of metropolitan planning, and which players dominate the process.
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- Introduction
- European organisations and the institutionalisation of a territorial dimension in EU policy
- Polycentric development: What is behind it?
- Visions on territorial cohesion
- Territorial cohesion: The underlying discourses
- The emerging EU Territorial cohesion agenda: The ball in the court of the member states
- Mixed messages: How the ESDP’s concepts have been applied in INTERREG IIIB Programmes, priorities and projects
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Dutch housing associations have a market share of about 33% of the entire Dutch housing stock. They spent around 2.8 billion Euros a year on the maintenance of dwellings, of which external suppliers account for approximately 89%. External service suppliers can as such be seen as an extension of the housing associations in fulfilling their public tasks and private objectives. Maintenance service delivery gives an opportunity for high quality interaction with tenants. At the moment maintenance service delivery appears to be of a suboptimal quality leading to a lower than potential tenant satisfaction. With this an essential part of the objectives of housing associations is not fulfilled optimally. This research reveals the essential determinants of maintenance service quality in order to promote tenant satisfaction. Commodity strategies for the purchasing of maintenance services are developed which make its optimization possible from the perspective of tenant satisfaction.
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The ultimate goal of building and construction – in relation to environmental issues – is to construct in an environmentally neutral way; or, as the Brundtland Report states, to consume in such a way that our children have the same choices that we have. Construction will always be needed, and will always consume resources. But in accordance with the conditions of the Brundtland Report, we should move construction into a direction that does not deplete resources, and does not worsen living circumstances through harmful indoor or outdoor environmental effects... In developing an approach for assessing sustainable building, the Three Step Strategy (in the Netherlands named Trias Ecologica) has proven to be useful. This publication takes a detailed look at this Strategy.
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Energy performance policy in the building sector - such as is described by EU Directive known as EPBD - has the aim of reducing energy consumption in buildings. Given the importance of the development of innovations in energy technology, and a transition to a sustainable energy supply system, it is necessary that policy instruments for energy conservation in the building sector stimulate the development and diffusion of innovations. This publication contributes to knowledge about the content of energy performance policy and concludes that the effect of energy performance policy in encouraging innovation is limited. The study of the innovation system of the Dutch construction industry identifies how the project-based nature of the construction industry is an obstacle to ‘learning-rich’ collaboration between the various stakeholders. The study contributes to the discussion about the impact of government policy for energy conservation in the building sector, in the context of climate change policy.
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In recent years, a formidable gulf has opened up between planning theory and practice. Over the past four decades, planning academics have developed strong theories and created models to accompany and elucidate the planning process. However, many planning practitioners have resisted the notion that theory can play a positive role in the solution of concrete planning problems. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the main planning theories and models, while then putting forward an innovative new model and a set of tools, based on the theories of Mario Bunge, which are aimed at helping planners achieve a better understanding of the complexities involved in the role of planners and their impact on the built environment.
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European territorial cooperation is the third objective of the EU Cohesion Policy for 2007–2013, as well as being the new umbrella under which ESDP follow-ups, such as INTERREG and ESPON, can continue. Cooperation is inherent to planning, and so is learning, and this is even more the case for European planning. Learning in itself can become a source of change, such as when ESPON gave rise to the Territorial Agenda. The papers in this issue cast light upon the various aspects of European territorialcooperation and learning, both within the mainstream instigated by the European Cohesion Policy as well as cross-border and bilateral projects. This introduction also speculates on the wider implications of cooperation and learning: the emergence of a transnational group of experts who promote change.
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Dutch land-use planning is - deservedly - widely known and respected throughout the planning world, This is the first comprehensive book in English on that subject written by an 'insider'. 'Dutch land-use planning' includes not only the formal structures and rules but also the informal daily practices. Much attention is given to the frictions between the different planning agencies in the country and to the tensions betweeen principles and pragmatism. After reading this book, the planner will be better able to understand how the Dutch realise those projects which have made them world famous.
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Mega-city regions are currently a frequent topic of discussion. Researchers are exploring the fundamentals for understanding the role of metropolitan regions and their social, economic, and cultural developments on a national and European basis. The responsible decision makers in politics and business are calling for new measures for greater urban areas. But that is just the start of the problem: Europe seems to lack an awareness for metropolitan regions. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions, and residents the features of mega-city regions remain invisible. They are scarcely charted; there are no concepts for representing them or any direct sensory understanding of them in everyday life. The book is based on the understanding that the visual depiction of mega-city regions is fundamental to identifying, acting, and developing within existing concentrations of urban populations. Through essays from various disciplines the book approaches the phenomenon and discusses the necessity to visualize mega-city regions.
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Planning Theory expresses a sound unease about the direction taken by the current analysis and criticism of planning experiences, both in the field of economics and in urban and regional planning. To oppose this, the present book aims to identify the essential guidelines of a re-launch of planning processes and techniques, configuring a kind of neo-discipline, called ‘planology’ by the author, which builds upon a multi-disciplinary integration (never seen and experimented with until now) of economic, environmental, and sociological approaches, a crucial element missing in previous unsuccessful planning attempts.
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The book describes a pro-active approach that evolved in Britain though direct experience at Chelmsford in Essex between 1996 and 2003. This expressed and prescribed the desired physical form through both spatial policy and detailed guidance and pursued it through active negotiation. The approach delivered a high quality urban environment in a uniform manner, not merely through isolated examples. Not just the policies but the life and appearance of the town were turned around. The high standards of design achieved were recognised by the award to the Council by the British government of the quality mark of Beacon Status for the Quality of the Built Environment in 2003.
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Spatial Planning Systems of Britain and France brings together a wide selection of comparative essays to highlight the fundamental similarities and differences between the spatial planning in Great Britain and France: two countries that are near neighbours and yet have developed very different modes of planning in terms of their structure, practical application and underlying philosophies. Drawing on the outcomes of the Franco-British Planning Study Group and with a foreword by Vincent Renard of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the book offers a comparative investigation of the basic contexts for planning in both countries, including its administrative, economic, financial and legal implications, and then move on to illustrate themes such as urban policy and transport planning through detailed analysis and case studies.
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A comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience. In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable cities, and counter the spatial distortions created by apartheid. This book covers the experience of the planning community, the extent to which their aims were achieved, and the hindering factors. Although some of the factors affecting planning have been contextspecific, the nature of South Africa’s transition and its relationship to global dynamics have meant that many of the issues confronting planners in other parts of the world are echoed here. Issues of governance, integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and values are significant, and the particular nature of the South African experience lends new insights to thinking on these questions, exploring the possibilities of achievement in the planning field.
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The principle of public participation in policy-making and policy implementation features in many European Union directives and policy documents. It is also undeniably connected to the rise of what can be called the European e-society, in which digital technologies are expected to strengthen public involvement in democratic processes. One broad group of such technologies are commonly referred to as geo-visualisations. This book contains the results of a European project that explored the potential for using innovative geo-visualisation techniques in public participation processes for spatial planning. The approach taken in the project involved continual interaction between concept development, the technological possibilities, and their practical application in case studies conducted in Belgium, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands. The structure of the book mirrors this procedure.
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Going beyond previous investigations into urban land use and travel, Petter Næss presents new research from Denmark on residential location and travel to show how and why urban spatial structures affect people's travel behaviour. In a comprehensive case study of the Copenhagen metropolitan area, Næss combines traditional quantitative travel surveys with qualitative interviews in order to identify the more detailed mechanisms through which urban structure affects travel behaviour. The case study findings are compared with those from other Nordic countries and analyzed and evaluated in the light of relevant theory and literature to provide solid, valuable conclusions for planning sustainable urban development. With a broader range of statistics than previous studies and conclusions of international relevance, Urban Structure Matters provides well-grounded conclusions for how spatial planning of urban areas can be used to reduce car dependence and achieve a more sustainable development of cities.
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Recently, the Land Use Planning Group of Wageningen University has published "Multiple Landscape: Merging past and present". This book on archaeological and historical-geographical issues in environmental planning includes a selected number of revised and updated papers of the fifth international workshop on sustainable land use planning "Multiple landscape: Merging past and present in landscape planning" that was held in Wageningen, The Netherlands in 2004.
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Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of an area (by segregation, lifestyle changes and neglecting urban centres); and on the economy (via distributed production, land prices, and issues of scale). Urban Sprawl in Europe: landscapes, land-use change & policy explains the nature and dynamics of urban sprawl.
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This book provides for a state-of the-art review of SEA theory and practice and promotes a more systematic approach to SEA. It is written for a wide student, professional and academic audience and aims particularly at supporting the development of SEA modules in undergraduate and postgraduate planning, environmental assessment, engineering and law courses. It provides an overview of the fundamental principles and rules of SEA, reports systematically on international SEA practice and theory and pushes the envelope by developing the theory. Supporting material includes boxed examples and case studies from around the world, extra reading suggestions and a glossary of terms.
This publication concerns large-scale urban area development in general, and in particular with gaining an understanding of the role played by global-local interaction in shaping the area development strategies in one particularly explosive urban project, the development of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area. The Pudong development provides an extreme example of a situation in which interaction between global and local forces took place in a location whose boundaries had been closed to the outside world for almost forty years and in a period when doors and windows were beginning to open. The research led to a concrete interpretation of the tensions developing at district level and provided an example capable of representing the complexity and dynamics of current area developments. The practical question addressed by the research was: What were the main factors responsible for the speed achieved by the Pudong development? The associated theoretical question was To what extent did the development of the Pudong New Area reflect the characteristics of a developmental state?
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In understanding and explaining the functioning of cities, contemporary urban and regional studies attribute great significance to relationships between cities. This book focuses on relationships between cities in polycentric urban regions (PURs), which are regions containing proximate but distinct cities that are rather similar in size. This book explores whether there are synergies between cities in PURs. In doing so, several widespread assumptions with respect to PURs are questioned. Do cities constituting a PUR increasingly complement each other? Does a PUR provide a similar critical mass for supporting amenities as a monocentric city region? Does a network model of spatial organisation describe the spatial-functional structure of PURs more accurately than a central place model? The author develops theories on synergy in PURs and clarifies related concepts such as complementarity, regional organising capacity and critical mass. Drawing on empirical evidence from PURs in North West Europe, particularly the Randstad, it appears that PURs are often far from being more than the sum of the parts.
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Urban quality is generally considered increasingly important for urban competitiveness. Nevertheless, large urban redevelopment schemes often fail to provide sufficient quality from a user’s perspective. This study therefore investigates the role of urban quality in large-scale urban redevelopment, which is here elaborated in terms of Richard Florida’s concept of quality of place. In a number of extensive case studies, it focuses on prestigious redevelopment projects around the high-speed rail stations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Lille. It provides an analysis of the role of urban quality in the development of these projects, as well as some insights in the applicability of quality of place in a wider Dutch context. In addition, the study advocates a more open and flexible planning process, based on a distinctly long-term perspective on urban quality.
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This important new book tackles the ongoing debate between market and government in planning. By applying transaction cost economics to an evaluation of land use systems, the author provides a fresh angle and a useful contribution to a growing field of study for researchers in urban planning, public administration and land economics. The book explains the relevance of the cost of land use decisions to planning practice and analyses institutions and transaction costs. The author offers evidence from three systematic empirical studies with detailed analyses of the planning of Nijmegen - Holland being known for its plan-led development; Bristol - where the UK planning system is characterised by being development-led and discretionary; and Houston - generally regarded as the city with no planning at all.
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Many of the key notions associated with spatial planning are essentially ‘fuzzy’ in their nature. For example, while almost everyone accepts ‘sustainability’ as an important goal of planning, the actions of the actors involved can render the achieved ‘sustainability’ minimal, or even counterproductive. Putting forward an innovative way of looking at planning problems and policies, this volume suggests actor-consulting is important in addressing the fuzzy nature of planning.
»Stadtmanagement« – ein Modewort oder neue Qualitäten für die Stadtentwicklung?
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The contribution of the book is to empower regional and urban planners to work with and mobilize other local stakeholders to engage and plan for the opportunities and challenges that are presented by the forces of globalization. A principal theme is that these forces are facilitated by information and communications technologies (ICT). A further emphasis is the need for local communities to be innovative and planful by creating productive content for the ICTs to enable. The book's message is constructed from analyses of global knowledge economy trends, relational planning theory and local knowledge-economy cases from the global economy's three primary technology-economic regions from Eastern Asia, Western Europe and North America.
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The book develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas.
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"Principles of Urban Structure" provides a fresh theoretical outlook on designing urban space
"Visualizing the Invisible" combines theory and practice when producing ideas about urban planning
The ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for professionals and students of architecture, urban design and planning. Unique introductory guide to urban housing design. An accessible text that outlines the current debate on addressing climate change and the need for more urban housing. Contemporary case studies showcase representative examples for high density housing design.
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