Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

Volume 2
Herausgeber: Stiftel, Bruce; Acselrad, Henri; Watson, Vanessa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest in urban and regional planning will find this collection valuable in opening new avenues for research and debate. This book is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), and the nine planning school associations it represents, who have selected these papers based on regional competitions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138892415
• ISBN-10: 1138892416
• Artikelnr.: 41750221

Autorenporträt

Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, is professor of urban and regional planning at Florida State University, USA. Vanessa Watson is professor in the City and Regional Planning programme and deputy director of the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Henri Acselrad is professor in the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Post-Industrialism, Post-Modernism, and the Reproduction
of Vancouver's Central Area: Retheorising the 21st Century City 3.
"Glocalising" Urban Landscapes: Athens and the 2004 Olympics 4.The
Three-Speed City: Marginalization, Suburbanization, Gentrification 5. The
Future of Rurality under Globalization 6. Reinforcing Identity: Urban
Design Concepts for Achieving Balinese Cities with Cultural Identity 7.
Knowing and Steering: Mediatization, Planning and Democracy in Victoria,
Australia 8. The Instruments for Urban Reform and the Ideal of Citizenship:
The Current Contradictions 9. Regional Planning and Sustainability: Limits
and Potentials of South Africa's Integrated Development Plans 10. The
Americanization of Australian Planning 11. City Planning in the History of
the City 12. Road Expansion, Urban Growth and Induced Travel 13. Changing
Gender Contracts in Self-Help Housing Construction in Botswana: The Case of
Lobatse