1st Edition

Planning Regional Futures

Edited By John Harrison, Daniel Galland, Mark Tewdwr-Jones Copyright 2022
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned. This is in a context where planning is seen to face powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually and practically – in ways arguably not seen before: planning is no longer solely the domain of professional planners but... Read more

Introduction: Whither regional planning?

John Harrison, Daniel Galland and Mark Tewdwr-Jones

1. Regional planning is dead: long live planning regional futures

John Harrison, Daniel Galland and Mark Tewdwr-Jones

2. The return of the city-region in the new urban agenda: is this relevant in the Global South?

Vanessa Watson

3. Planning, temporary urbanism and citizen-led alternative-substitute place-making in the Global South

Lauren Andres, Hakeem Bakare, John R. Bryson, Winnie Khaemba, Lorena Melgaço and George R. Mwaniki

4. Getting the territory right: infrastructure-led development and the re-emergence of spatial planning strategies

Seth Schindler and J. Miguel Kanai

5. City-regional imaginaries and politics of rescaling

Simin Davoudi and Elizabeth Brooks

6. Two logics of regionalism: the development of a regional imaginary in the Toronto–Waterloo Innovation Corridor

David Wachsmuth and Patrick Kilfoil

7. Planning megaregional futures: spatial imaginaries and megaregion formation in China

John Harrison and Hao Gu

8. Understanding heterogeneous spatial production externalities as a missing link between land-use planning and urban economic futures

Haozhi Pan, Tianren Yang, Ying Jin, Sandy Dall’Erba and Geoffrey Hewings

9. Spatial planning, nationalism and territorial politics in Europe

Claire Colomb and John Tomaney

10. Towards a sustainable, negotiated mode of strategic regional planning: a political economy perspective

Ian Gordon and Tony Champion

11. Regional planning as cultural criticism: reclaiming the radical wholes of interwar regional thinkers

Garrett Dash Nelson

12. Future-proof cities through governance experiments? Insights from the Resilient Melbourne Strategy (RMS)

Sebastian Fastenrath and Lars Coenen

13. The new normative: synergistic scenario planning for carbon-neutral cities and regions

Joe Ravetz, Aleksi Neuvonen and Raine Mäntysalo

Biography

John Harrison is Reader in Human Geography at Loughborough University, UK.

Daniel Galland is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.

Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Bartlett Professor of Cities and Regions at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, UK.