1st Edition
Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies Towards a Relational Planning for Our Times
1. The Project of Strategic Planning for Urban Areas 2. Urban 'Regions' and Their Governance 3. The Strategic Shaping of Urban Development in Amsterdam 4. The Struggle for Strategic Flexibility in Urban Planning in Milan 5. The Transformation of Identity in the Cambridge Sub-Region 6. Strategy-Making in a Relational World 7. Spatial Imaginations and Urban 'Region' Strategies 8. Getting to Know an Urban 'Region' 9. Relational Complexity and Urban Governance
Biography
Patsy Healey is Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle, where she was previously Head of Department, then Director of the Centre for Research in European Urban Environments.
She is a specialist in planning theory, planning systems and planning practices and has undertaken research on how planning strategies work out in practice and on partnership forms of neighbourhood regeneration experiences. She is Senior Editor of the Journal, Planning Theory and Practice.
"This book is a tour de force by a master at the top of her game. If there is a single book capturing the conjunciton of contemporary urban planning theory and strategic planning practice in Europe, this could be it." -- Planning Theory
