ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|24 pages

Introduction

Global commonality and regional specificity

chapter 2|44 pages

Post-industrialism, post-modernism, and the reproduction of Vancouver's central area

Retheorising the twenty-first century city

chapter 3|34 pages

‘Glocalising' urban landscapes

Athens and the 2004 Olympics

chapter 4|24 pages

The three-speed city

Marginalisation, periurbanisation, gentrification

chapter 6|27 pages

Reinforcing identity

Urban design concepts for achieving Balinese cities with cultural identity

chapter 7|29 pages

Knowing and steering

Mediatization, planning and democracy in Victoria, Australia

chapter 8|12 pages

The instruments for urban reform and the ideal of citizenship

The current contradictions

chapter 9|24 pages

Regional planning and sustainability

Limits and potentials of South Africa's integrated development plans

chapter 11|28 pages

City planning and urban history

chapter 12|34 pages

Road expansion, urban growth, and induced travel

A path analysis