This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus is on providing students with a substantive and sophisticated understanding of the relation of the state and market and such key current issues as sustainable development, urban renaissance, affordable housing and the relationships between planning, housebuilding and house prices. Drawing examples from Britain, the rest of Europe and the USA, it emphasizes the role of economics in promoting a theoretically-informed and evidence-based approach...
This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus...
Planning theory and practice has engaged increasingly in recognising the diverse needs of social groups. This builds on past and continuing efforts to emphasise redistribution in the provision of better access to services and facilities for all. More recently, planning theory and practice have taken up questions of enhancing interaction and contact between city dwellers. This important new book showcases and compares these three social logics for planning cities - redistribution, recognition and encounter - theoretically and practically in a range of contexts.
Planning theory and practice has engaged increasingly in recognising the diverse needs of social groups. This builds on past and continuing efforts to...
Reviews of 1st edition: ...a major, carefully argued contribution, which should raise the discourse among planning theorists to a new level - a level reserved for a book that succeeds in the ambitious task of weaving together, into one fabric, theories of planning and theories in planning'. - Rachelle Alterman and Tamy Stav, Town Planning Review '... A] visionary and important work...' - A.McArthur, Planning and Design
'A brilliant exposition of the development of theoretical concepts of planning in the second half of the Twentieth century.' - A. Gilg,...
Reviews of 1st edition: ...a major, carefully argued contribution, which should raise the discourse among planning theorists to a new leve...
A major new introduction to planning by one of the leading figures in the field. This text goes beyond description of planning's central ideas and practices to stress the importance of its potential to improve the quality of life in the 21st century.
A major new introduction to planning by one of the leading figures in the field. This text goes beyond description of planning's central ideas and pra...
This book provides agenuinely international introduction to regional and local economic development policies and practice, their contexts and the theoretical issues and debates that underpin them."
This book provides agenuinely international introduction to regional and local economic development policies and practice, their contexts and the theo...
The second edition of this internationally comparative text on urban planning covers both the global and regional context in which it takes place and the different combinations of issues confronting different types of cities. Thoroughly updated throughout, this edition includes a new chapter on "the world city hypothesis.""
The second edition of this internationally comparative text on urban planning covers both the global and regional context in which it takes place and ...
A major new introduction to the UK planning system. It outlines the evolution and use of the new spatial planning approach which is increasingly adopted at all levels of the UK planning system from European through to the national, regional, sub-regional and local level.
A major new introduction to the UK planning system. It outlines the evolution and use of the new spatial planning approach which is increasingly adopt...
Placing the practice of urban design in its political, economic and cultural context, this book sets out a clear and positive vision of the potential of urban design, and in particular its capacity to bring imagined futures into being for the benefit of the many. Urban Design, Space and Society shows how urban design is concerned not only with the aesthetics and practicalities of designing urban spaces, but also with the pursuit of social inclusiveness, participatory democracy, cultural meaning and ecological sustainability. It covers a broad range of interrelated themes and...
Placing the practice of urban design in its political, economic and cultural context, this book sets out a clear and positive vision of the potential ...
Placing the practice of urban design in its political, economic and cultural context, this book sets out a clear and positive vision of the potential of urban design, and in particular its capacity to bring imagined futures into being for the benefit of the many. Urban Design, Space and Society shows how urban design is concerned not only with the aesthetics and practicalities of designing urban spaces, but also with the pursuit of social inclusiveness, participatory democracy, cultural meaning and ecological sustainability. It covers a broad range of interrelated themes and...
Placing the practice of urban design in its political, economic and cultural context, this book sets out a clear and positive vision of the potential ...
This innovative introduction to environmental planning is designed for an international readership. Each of the book's chapters focuses on a key question in environmental planning and works through principles which are appropriate in any national context. Case studies from around the world show how the principles apply in practice.
This innovative introduction to environmental planning is designed for an international readership. Each of the book's chapters focuses on a key quest...
