"Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning Volume 5 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issuesfrom the theory and practice of planning, including new research in social inclusion, metropolitan planning, urban design and transformation"--
This is the third book in the series offering a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world.
All those with an interest in urban and regional planning will find this collection valuable in opening new avenues for research and debate.
1. Introduction: Seizing the Opportunity Thomas Harper, Heloisa Costa
and Anthony Yeh
2. Portraying, classifying and understanding the emerging
landscapes in the post-industrial city Aspa Gospodini
3. Water and Urban
Sustainability in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico Virginia
Lahera Ramón
4. China's urban developmental planning in rapid urbanization:
Resource mobilization and responsiveness to market change Jieming Zhu
5. New
Urbanism and Sprawl: A Toronto Case Study Andrejs Skaburskis
6. Reimagining
inner-city regeneration in Hillbrow, Johannesburg: Identifying a role for
faith-based community development Tanja Winkler
7. Town planning versus
urbanismo Michael Hebbert
8. "Paris burns": Architecture or revolution? Ester
Limonad
9. On the edge of reason: Planning and urban futures in Africa Philip
Harrison
10. Territorial planning and the national project: The challenges of
fragmentation Carlos Vainer
11. Planning styles in conflict: The metropolitan
transportation commission Judith E. Innes and Judith Gruber
12.
Performance-Based Planning: Perspectives from the United States, Australia,
and New Zealand Douglas C. Baker, Neil G. Sipe, and Brendan J. Gleeson
13.
The logic of critical communicative planning: Transaction cost alteration
Tore Sager
14. Planning appeals: Are third party rights legitimate? the case
study of Victoria, Australia Stephen Willey
Thomas Harper is Professor in the Planning Program at the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada.
Heloisa Costa is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Anthony Gar-On Yeh is Professor at the Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Hong Kong.