Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies 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.
Well-illustrated chapters weave together conceptual development, experience and implications for future practice and address the challenge of urban and metropolitan planning and development.
Useful for students, social scientists and policy makers, Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies offers concepts and detailed cases of interest to those involved in policy development and...
Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relev...
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...
This book, originally published in 1988, provides an account of an analysis of British planning in practice, as observed through empirical research including a range of case studies.
This book, originally published in 1988, provides an account of an analysis of British planning in practice, as observed through empirical research in...
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 volume takes an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning. Through case studies, an international group of researchers, planning practitioners, and planning academics and educators provide accounts of designing and implementing research projects from different approaches and venues.
This volume takes an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning...
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning. Through case studies, an international group of researchers, planning practitioners, and planning academics and educators, all recognized authorities in the field, provide accounts of designing and implementing research projects from different approaches and venues. This book shows how to apply quantitative and qualitative methods to projects, and how to take your research from the classroom to the real...
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research...
This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their critics struggle to transform themselves in the context of post-industrial economies and societies. This context has generated new relations of economic life and social activity to be accommodated in cities, and has also changed expectations of the roles, relationships and modes of governance. New conceptual tools to analyze these experiences are becoming available, linked to a broad "institutionalist" wave of ideas sweeping right across the social sciences....
This title was first published in 2002: Urban governance has faced numerous challenges as city governments, their partners and their critics strugg...
