REGIONAL & AREA PLANNING
Urban transformation and urban governance
Shaping the competitive city of the future
Combining a detailed case study of the city of Bristol with wide-ranging information and analysis from other sources, this report addresses key challenges facing policy makers, practitioners and academics in their efforts to understand and impact on the changing nature of urban environments today.
Developing locally
An international comparison of local and regional economic development
Throughout the developed world governments have invested substantial sums in local and regional economic development. This is the first book to provide a cross-national comparison and evaluation of regional development strategies, institutions and agencies.
Urban competitiveness
Policies for dynamic cities
The factors that make some cities more successful has become an increasingly important policy issue. This book is the first to explore facets of competitiveness in a systematic way that combines theory, evidence and policy implications. Bringing together experts on urban economic performance, it provides a new look at urban competitiveness.
Ethnicity, class and aspiration
Understanding London's new East End
An analysis of the aspirations of different groups living in East London and the strategies they have used to improve their status.
Leading the Inclusive City
Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet
This engaging book argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future while advancing social justice, promoting care for the environment and bolstering community empowerment.
Localism and Neighbourhood Planning
Power to the People?
A critical analysis of neighbourhood planning. Setting empirical evidence from the UK against international examples, the Editors engage in broader debates on the purposes of planning and the devolution of power to localities.
Urban renaissance?
New Labour, community and urban policy
This book documents and assesses the core of New Labour's approach to the revitalisation of cities.
Disadvantaged by where you live?
Neighbourhood governance in contemporary urban policy
"Disadvantaged by where you live?" offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997.
Neighbourhood Planning
Communities, Networks and Governance
Neighbourhood Planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits.
The future of sustainable cities
Critical reflections
An up-to-date assessment by prominent scholars of the impacts of recent changes on key areas of urban planning, including housing, transport, and the environment, and core areas for future research.
Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice
Improving Health and Wellbeing
With examples of policy and approaches, this book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisions.
Spatial Planning and Resilience Following Disasters
International and Comparative Perspectives
International contributors from academia, research, policy and practice use their experience and knowledge to explore on-going efforts to improve spatial resilience across the globe and predict future trends.