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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|44 pages
Post-industrialism, post-modernism, and the reproduction of Vancouver's central area
Retheorising the twenty-first century city
chapter 6|27 pages
Reinforcing identity
Urban design concepts for achieving Balinese cities with cultural identity
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 13|31 pages
Changing gender contracts in self-help housing construction in Botswana
The case of Lobatse
