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1. An Anatomy of Sprawl

   Planning and Politics in Britain

   By Nicholas A. Phelps

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation...

   Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory

   By John Friedmann

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself. Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the...

   Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge
3. Implementing Sustainability

   The New Zealand Experience

   By Caroline L. Miller

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently. This book examines the lessons that can be learned by planning practitioners...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
4. Land and Limits

   Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process, 2nd Edition

   By Susan Owens, Richard Cowell

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy. In the decade since the book was first conceived,...

   Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. Transport Matters

   Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions

   By Angela Hull

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and...

   Published August 8th 2010 by Routledge
8. Grotton Revisited

   Planning in Crisis?

   By Steve Ankers, David Kaiserman, Chris Shepley

   Series: RTPI Library Series

   Some thirty years ago the small Metropolitan County of Grotton found itself bathed in the bright glare of publicity as The Grotton Papers lifted the lid on the inner workings of the six planning departments of this hitherto little remarked corner of England. The intervening years have seen...

   Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Crossing Borders

    International Exchange and Planning Practices

    Edited by Patsy Healey, Robert Upton

    Series: RTPI Library Series

    The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book. It raises questions about why and how some ideas and practices attract international attention, and about the invention processes which go on when...

    Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge