Regional Planning category: 486 books
Localism and neighbourhood planning
Power to the people?
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Governments around the world are seeing the locality as a key arena for effecting changes in governance, restructuring state/civil society relations and achieving sustainable growth. This is the first book to critically analyse this shift towards localism in planning through exploring neighbourhood...
Planning in the UK
Agendas for the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Priorities changed and different themes moved to the top of the agenda such as local democracy, community, transparency, sustainability and co-ordinated or...
by Greg Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring. At the same time, 'culture' is nowadays seen as the world's key intellectual resource possessing new creative weight in sociological, economic and environmental terms. This book argues that, in the light...
Planning in Ten Words or Less
A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights...
Building Regionalism from Below
The Role of Parliaments and Civil Society in Regional Integration in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
This edited book provides a comprehensive and comparative analytical overview of parliamentary bodies and civil society in Africa, both at the regional and national level, and their role in the ongoing regionalisation processes on the African continent. Gathering contributions from African and European...
ICTs for Health, Education, and Socioeconomic Policies
Regional Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Advancing technologies play an important role in the interactions between health, education, and socioeconomic policies. The subsequent outcomes between these areas require a better understanding and assessment in order to pursue further efficient coordination. ICTs for Health, Education and Socioeconomic...
Comparative Area Studies
Methodological Rationales and Cross-Regional Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
In the post-World War II era, the emergence of 'area studies' marked a signal development in the social sciences. As the social sciences evolved methodologically, however, many dismissed area studies as favoring narrow description over general theory. Still, area studies continues to plays a key,...
Sense of Place
A History of Irish Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
The modern Irish planning system was introduced on October 1, 1964, when the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 came into force "to make provision, in the interests of the common good, for the proper planning and development of cities, towns and other areas." Given the...
Fuzzy Planning
The Role of Actors in a Fuzzy Governance Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
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....
Emergent Urbanism
Urban Planning & Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban...
English planning in crisis
10 steps to a sustainable future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The English planning system is in crisis, argue the authors of this provocative new book. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis provide a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, assessing the implications and significance for the future....
The essential guide to planning law
Decision-making and practice in the UK
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This comprehensive yet concise textbook is the first to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. Giving students essential background and contextual information to planning’s statutory basis, the information is supported by practical and applied discussion to help...
E-Planning and Collaboration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery focuses on disaster recovery from the perspective of urban planning, an underutilized tactic that can significantly reduce disaster risks. The book examines disaster risk reduction (DRR), in particular, the recovery stage of what is widely known as the disaster...