The Routledge Companion to Comparative International Planning

Part I: Background to international comparative planning

1. Introduction
Olivier Sykes, Ela Babalık, and Andrea I. Frank

2. A History of international comparison: Theory, methods and practice 
Linda Hantrais

3. What is published as international comparative planning research in academic journals?
Stefanie Dühr

Part II: Why compare? The motivations for international comparison for planning and urban policy

4. Modes of inter-urban comparisons and theory building
Kevin Ward

5. Beyond (and between) the global city? Exploring a framework to strengthen policy mobility between differing urban scales
Alexander Nurse

6. Knowledge co-production through international comparison: Transnational territorial knowledge communities in action
Francesca Bragaglia and Giancarlo Cotella

7. Spatial planning outcome assessment in international comparison
Marco Pütz and Nadine Kießling

8. Limits on the international mobility of planning ideas and practices: Some historical lessons
Stephen V. Ward

9. Decoloniality of international comparative planning research
Garth Klein

10. Benchmarking responses to urban shrinkage: Balancing normative dimensions in the planning concept of “shrinking smart”
Bozhidar Ivanov and Karina Pallagst

Part III - What to compare?

11. Comparative urban planning law: Theories, methodologies, and challenges
Jinwon Jeon

12. Planning systems compared: A reflection on the state of art
Dominic Stead

13. Comparing planning policy instruments
Stefanie Dühr

14. Planning culture
Frank Othengrafen and Karsten Zimmermann

15. 'Governance approaches' to study planning systems
Umberto Janin Rivolin

16. Where is design in planning education? An international comparison of planning programmes in England, Italy, and Portugal
Manuela Madeddu and Juliana Martins

Part IV: Comparative international planning research

17. How to make "peace" with informality: Deconstructing the black box of spatial informality in land uses
Deniz Ay and Jean-David Gerber

18. The right to the city: Worldwide concept and a Brazilian perspective
Camila D’Ottaviano

19. Rural development planning in Europe: The challenges and results of a comparative approach
Xavier Desjardins and Philippe Estèbe

20. Resilience and risk mitigation: Making the case for working across silos and cross-case learning
Richard Sliuzas, Stefan Greiving, Adriana Galderisi, Kalliopi Sapountzaki, and Cassidy Johnson

21. Neighbourhood models for public health: A comparative retrospective over the last century
Nihan Oya Memlük Çobanoğlu and Machiel Van Dorst

22. Comparative studies in cultural heritage and urban conservation: Integration in the English and German planning systems
Carol Ludwig and Georg Sedlmeyer

23. International comparative transport planning studies
Jiangping Zhou

24. Transit-oriented development: Improving urban sustainability
Richard D. Knowles and Chia-Lin Chen

25. Digitalisation, urban data, and the 15-minute city
 Alessia Calafiore and Richard Dunning

26. Comparing the adoption of digital data and technologies in planning
Michele Campagna

27. Urban form and urban morphology: Professional and academic approaches
Peter J. Larkham, Feng Song, Junyuan Lu, Xueqi Chen, and Qianhui Zhao

28. Comparative international studies on public spaces: Benefits and limitations
Christine Mady

Part V: Informing global agendas and professional practice through comparison 

29. International planning guidelines and diffusion to local planning
Bruce Stiftel

30. Liveability and its implication in comparative spatial planning
Fei Chen, Aura L Istrate, and Junjie Xi

31. International comparison of experiences and knowledge exchange in metropolitan and regional networks: A view from Stuttgart Region (Germany)
Thomas Kiwitt and Frieder Oesterle

32. International collaborative planning through private consultancy
Jane Healey Brown, Kim Power, Anna Bevington, Kieron Hyams, and Jess Jones

Part VI: Education in and for comparative international planning

33. Teaching international comparative planning in a globalised higher education context: Pedagogical imperative and challenges
Claire Colomb and Susan Moore

34. Developing comparative competencies in planning education: The international planning studio
Jean-Michel Roux

35. Developing comparative study competencies through lived experiences: Semester abroad
Ender Peker

36. Global planning education and online pedagogy: An inquiry into implementation
Christopher Silver 

Part VII: Conclusions and future developments

37. International comparative planning: Key findings and future agendas
Ela Babalık, Andrea I. Frank, and Olivier Sykes

Index

Biography

Ela Babalık is Professor of City and Regional Planning, and a transport policy expert. Having been a member of the academic staff for over 25 years at the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, she is teaching urban transport planning and transport policy as a part-time instructor at METU as well as carrying out training, policymaking projects, and consultancy work at the national and international level. Her areas of expertise include transport policy, sustainable mobility, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and planning education.

Andrea I. Frank is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Other than in the UK, she previously has held academic appointments in the USA, Germany, and Indonesia. Her areas of expertise include sustainability, public participation, creativity, planning pedagogy, and education for planning as well as international and comparative planning. With Christopher Silver, she is co-editor of Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects (2018) and Teaching Urban and Regional Planning (with A.R. Pires, 2021).

Olivier Sykes is Associate Professor in European Spatial Planning and Discipline Lead for Planning at the University of Liverpool. His research and teaching address the fields of European spatial planning, international planning studies, and comparative urban policy and regeneration. He is co-author of International Planning Studies: An Introduction (2023) and co-editor of Planning in a Failing State: Reforming Spatial Governance in England (2024).