1st Edition

Regions in Evolution A History of Regional Planning

396 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

396 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Throughout the twentieth century, planning and planners were central to our understanding of cities and regions. Today, however, planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually, practically – in ways arguably not seen before. Recent developments and trends are raising fundamental questions about how we plan regions. Planning is no longer solely the domain of professional... Read more

Introduction 1. The evolution of regions and planning Part I: History, Hallmarks and Heyday (Pre-1967) 2. Confronting the limits of the local: the emergence of regional consciousness 3. Putting the region into regional planning 4. Incremental forms of regional planning: a faltering and ad hoc approach Part II: Professional as Vindication or Curse? (1967-1979) 5. Regional planning: Branching into diverging styles 6. What was ‘regional’ about 1960s regional planning? 7. A spatial scientific approach to regional planning Part III: Regional Problems, Regional Planning Solutions? (1979-2007) 8. Regional planning perplexed: meandering across multiple policy agendas 9. Planning amid an explosion of regional spaces 10. The outmanoeuvring of regional planning by trends and circumstance Part IV: Whither Regional Planning? (2007-2020) 11. Do planning and planners matter for regional development? 12. Let the old see the new: a modern twist or old wine in new bottles? 13. Keeping the regional planning idea alive through institutional churn Part V: Planning Regional Futures (2021- ) 14. Planning regional futures: regional planning as part of the problem or part of the solution? 15. Renewing regional imaginaries: fads and fashions, old ideas made good, or running out of new ideas? 16. Regional planning as a multitude of approaches Conclusion 17. Renewing the planning of regions – might regions still need a coordinator supremo?