Planning and Urban Design

Introduction to Rural Planning

By Nick Gallent, Meri Juntti, Sue Kidd, Dave Shaw

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Providing an overview of rural (spatial) planning for students on planning, geography and related programmes, this book charts the major patterns and processes of rural change affecting the British countryside, its landscape, its communities and its economies in the twentieth century. The authors...

Published January 16th 2008 by Routledge

Handbook of Local and Regional Development

Edited by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, John Tomaney

The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and...

Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge

Just Growth

Inclusion and Prosperity in America's Metropolitan Regions

By Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor

Series: Regions and Cities

Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader – and quite...

Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge

Town and Country Planning in the UK

By J Barry Cullingworth, Vincent Nadin

To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge

Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions

An International Comparative Perspective

Edited by Jiang Xu, Anthony Yeh

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Neoliberalism’s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political...

Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge

The Futures of the City Region

Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

Series: Regions and Cities

Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge

Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities

Edited by Anne Lorentzen, Bas van Heur

Series: Regions and Cities

The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics...

Published August 21st 2011 by Routledge

Creating Knowledge Locations in Cities

Innovation and Integration Challenges

By Willem van Winden, Luis de Carvalho, Erwin van Tuijl, Jeroen van Haaren, Leo van den Berg

Series: Regions and Cities

Based on a clear and comprehensive literature review, this book contains an analysis of five knowledge locations in Europe and one in South Korea. The case studies in the book cover several European countries (Ireland, Finland, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands). The cases are well grounded in the...

Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge

Networking Regionalised Innovative Labour Markets

Edited by Ulrich Hilpert, Helen Lawton Smith

Series: Regions and Cities

A map which shows where innovation is clustered worldwide is also a map of the location of the highly skilled and talented labour. New technologies, their creative applications or synergy across different areas of scientific research or technology development always create opportunities for the...

Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge

Re-framing Regional Development

Evolution, Innovation and Transition

Edited by Philip Cooke

Series: Regions and Cities

Turbulence characterises the current global scene. This book uses complementary theoretical approaches to understand and help prescribe policies to ‘re-frame’ the regional development problem in turbulent times. These approaches are: evolutionary complexity; evolutionary economic geography;...

Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge

Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?

Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies

Edited by Nicola Bellini, Mike Danson, Henrik Halkier

Series: Regions and Cities

Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative policy-makers and as the implementers of programmes and initiatives originating from the national or European level. By drawing on a combination of conceptual reflection, surveys...

Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge

Regional Development in Northern Europe

Peripherality, Marginality and Border Issues

Edited by Mike Danson, Peter de Souza

Series: Regions and Cities

This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the...

Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge

Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development

Creating Favourable Conditions for Small Businesses in Central Europe

By Matthias Fink, Stephan Loidl, Richard Lang

Series: Regions and Cities

How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities learn from each other? How can each individual in the local area contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know-how can successfully be transferred on a communal...

Published July 19th 2012 by Routledge

Cities, State and Globalization

City-Regional Governance in Europe and North America

By Tassilo Herrschel

Series: Regions and Cities

This book makes a new contributution to the current lively debate on city regional governance, offering a genuinely comparative approach, covering Europe (east and west) and North America, and thus different ‘cultures’ of city regionalism. Drawing on a series of case studies conducted by the...

To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge

Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

By Philip Cooke

Series: Regions and Cities

Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge

Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe

Concepts, Measures and Comparative Case Studies

Edited by Luciana Lazzeretti

Series: Regions and Cities

In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement, and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development. Increasingly, European cities and regions are using the arts to fuel wellbeing and reinvigorate...

Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge

Innovation Governance in an Open Economy

Shaping Regional Nodes in a Globalized World

Edited by Annika Rickne, Staffan Laestadius, Henry Etzkowitz

Series: Regions and Cities

In an increasingly globalised world, paradoxically regional innovation clusters have moved to the forefront of attention as a strategy for economic and social development. Transcending international success cases, like Silicon Valley and Route 128, as sources of lessons, successful high tech...

Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge

Knowledge Economy and the City

Spaces of knowledge

By Ali Madanipour

Series: Regions and Cities

This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies. If a new knowledge-based economy is emerging,...

Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge

The Recession and Beyond

Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn

Edited by David Bailey, Caroline Chapain

Series: Regions and Cities

How has the recession impacted on firms, people and places? How have local and regional authorities responded? This book aims to answer these questions by offering an overview of the impacts of the recession on people and places and how it has affected local authorities in the UK and other OECD...

Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge

Beyond Territory

Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation, Diffusion and Innovation

Edited by Harald Bathelt, Maryann Feldman, Dieter F. Kogler

Series: Regions and Cities

The main purpose of the book is to discuss new trends in the dynamic geography of innovation and argue that in an era of increasing globalization, two trends seem quite dominant: rigid territorial models of innovation, and localized configurations of innovative activities. The book brings together...

Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Effective Practice in Spatial Planning

By Janice Morphet

Series: RTPI Library Series

After years of being regarded as a regulatory tool, spatial planning is now a key agent in delivering better places for the future. Dealing with the role of spatial planning in major change such as urban extensions or redevelopment, this book asks how it can deliver at the local level....

Published June 20th 2010 by Routledge

Spatial Planning and Climate Change

By Elizabeth Wilson, Jake Piper

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this, spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches. Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the...

Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge

The Ecosystem Approach to Marine Planning and Management

Edited by Sue Kidd, Andy Plater, Chris Frid

The marine environment is one of our most precious yet fragile natural resources. It provides a wide range of essential goods and services, including food, regulation of climate and nutrient cycling, as well as a setting for transport, recreation and tourism. This environment is however extremely...

Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge

Strategic Spatial Projects

Catalysts for Change

Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck, Jef Van den Broeck, Louis Albrechts, Frank Moulaert, Ann Verhetsel

Series: RTPI Library Series

Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and...

Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge

European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation

By Stefanie Dühr, Claire Colomb, Vincent Nadin

There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and regional borders. EU policies in areas such as environment, transport, agriculture or regional policy have far-reaching effects on...

Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge

Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

Edited by Manfred Steger, Anne McNevin

Series: Rethinking Globalizations

How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to...

Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Cohesion, Coherence, Cooperation: European Spatial Planning Coming of Age?

By Andreas Faludi

Series: RTPI Library Series

Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This book examines the most recent of these, the concept of territorial cohesion. Territorial cohesion is the pursuit of balanced development, competitiveness...

Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge