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Book Synopsis"An important book which adds the often neglected angle of political geography to the growing body of critical research on the Israeli state and society, and on the Jewish-Arab conflict."-Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University of JerusalemTrade Review"Yiftachel's admirable work attempts both to characterise the nature of the Israeh state and to draw moral implications from such characterisation. On the basis of his analysis Yiftachel offers his vision for what he and many others refer to as 'Israel-Palestine'. Yiftachel asks, and attempts to answer, two interrelated questions: first, 'what kind of a polity is the state of Israel?', and second, 'what kind of a society is Israeh society?' Conventional wisdom would answer both questions with the word 'democratic'. However, Yiftachel's book masterfully challenges such an answer. His claim is that the state of Israel, uncritically dubbed as 'Jewish-democratic', belongs to a group of states that ought to be referred to as 'ethnocracies'. Israeli society is also an ethnocratic society." * Holy Land Studies *"A thoughtful, humane, and arresting book. . . . It ranges widely, contributing to a number of discussions in political geography, political sociology, and planning." * Planning Theory *"An important book that adds the often neglected angle of political geography to the growing body of critical research on the Israeli state and society, and on the Jewish-Arab conflict." * Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. SETTINGS 1. Introduction 2. The Ethnocratic Regime: The Politics of Seizing Contested Territory PART II. ETHNOCRACY AND TERRITORY IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE 3. Zionist and Palestinian Nationalism: The Making of Territorial Identities 4. Debating Israeli Democracy 5. The Making of Ethnocracy in Israel/Palestine 6. The Spatial Foundation: the Israeli Land System PART III. ETHNOCRACY AND ITS PERIPHERIES: PALESTINIAN ARABS AND MIZRAHIM 7. Fractured Regionalism among Palestinian Arabs in Israel 8. Bedouin Arabs and Urban Ethnocracy in the Beer-Sheva Region 9. Mizrahi Identities in the Development Towns: The Making of a Third Space 10. Between Local and National: Mobilization in the Mizrahi Peripheries PART IV. LOOKING AHEAD 11. A Way Forward? The Planning of a Binational Capital in Jerusalem 12. Epilogue: A Demos for Israel/Palestine? Toward Phased Binationalism Notes Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisSix-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami''s airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro''s Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end of the twentieth century, the one-time citrus and tourism hub was more closely associated with vice than sunshine. When Diaz took office in 2001, the city was paralyzed by a notoriously corrupt police department, unresponsive government, a dying business district, and heated ethnic and racial divisions. During Diaz''s two terms as mayor, Miami was transformed into a vibrant, progressive, and economically resurgent world-class metropolis.In Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time, award-winning former mayor Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of the most diverse and dynamic urban communities in the United States. This firstTrade Review"Miami Transformed is the story of a doer, a big thinker with a passion for improving the lives of people. Manny Diaz is undaunted by the challenges that inevitably arise in government and business but always squarely focused on the agenda he has carefully set to reach his goals. That's the definition of a good leader, and that, based on my experience, is Manny Diaz." * Richard M. Daley, former Mayor of Chicago *"Manny Diaz became the mayor of Miami during a critical time, when professional leadership was needed. He took the city to new heights and also represented Miami nationally and internationally as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Manny is a visionary leader who has never lost his footing or his roots. He epitomizes the immigrant success story and the fruition of the American Dream." * Eduardo J. Padrón, President of Miami Dade College *"Under Mayor Manny Diaz's leadership and direction, Miami has undergone a great and sustaining transformation into a cultural hotspot and a hub for the 'creative class,' with a thriving business climate that is open, multicultural, and inclusive. Miami Transformed offers politicians and policymakers a blueprint for transforming their cities block-by-block into destinations for innovative businesses and entrepreneurs, building livable and safe communities for all." * Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited *"Manny Diaz was a great mayor, and he will go down in history as one of our country's most innovative urban leaders because he put progress before partisanship-and because he never stopped asking 'Why not?' His legacy will be defined not only by a soaring skyline but also by cutting-edge policies that made Miami a national leader on urban issues." * From the Foreword, by Mayor Michael Bloomberg *Table of ContentsForeword —by Michael Bloomberg Introduction Chapter 1. July 21, 1961 Chapter 2. The Lost Generation Finds Its Way Chapter 3. Creating My Own Politics Chapter 4. Two Six-Year-Olds Chapter 5. The Choice for Change Chapter 6. Now What? Chapter 7. Grand Ideas Chapter 8. Expanding Economic Opportunity Chapter 9. Education Chapter 10. Making Neighborhoods Safe Chapter 11. Investing in Our Future Chapter 12. Designing a Sustainable City Chapter 13. Fostering Arts and Culture Conclusion Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisJohn F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City''s most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world''s busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK''s status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and maTrade Review"The Metropolitan Airport is a valuable study of the complex history of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Filled with fascinating information on the airport and the Port Authority that built and operates it, Bloom's analysis is insightful and balanced." * Jameson W. Doig, Princeton University *"Nicholas Dagen Bloom has written the first good book on JFK International. Writing in a fluent, accessible style, he is attuned to the multiple areas of the airport's significance, from its impact on the New York regional economy to its design, environmental impact, and political status under the Port Authority of New York." * Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University *

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Book SynopsisToday the challenges facing our nation''s metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban sprawl, spatial segregation, gentrification, education, housing affordability, regional equity, and more. Unfortunately, local governments do not have the capacity to respond to the interlocking set of problems facing metropolitan regions, and future challenges such as population growth and climate change will not make it easier. But will we ever have a more effective and sustainable approach to developing the metropolitan region? The answer may depend on our ability to develop a means to govern a metropolitan region that promotes population density, regional public transit systems, and the equitable development of city and suburbs within a system of land use and planning that is by and large a local one. If we want to plan for sustainable regions we need to understand and strengthen existing metropolitan planning arraTrade Review"Governing the Fragmented Metropolis should be on the shelf of any library with a serious interest in contemporary urban affairs." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"I know of no other work that systematically examines different approaches to regional, public decision making on land use in the United States. This book is a much needed, path-breaking effort to assess the effectiveness of alternative institutional structures in preventing urban sprawl." * Connie P. Ozawa, Portland State University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Planning for a Metropolitan Future Chapter 2. Planning Without Authority in Boston Chapter 3. Becoming a Regional Player in Denver Chapter 4. A Nested System in Transition in Portland Chapter 5. Lessons for Metropolitan Planning Chapter 6. Governing More Effective Regions Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Trade Review"The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Victor Valle is the pit bull of Los Angeles writers. In the mid-1980s he sank his teeth into a story about corruption in the strange city-state of Industry, and he never let go. Now, after twenty years of relentless sleuthing, he tells a tale of epic greed that began in the dusty hills east of Los Angeles but now engrosses the very centers of power in Southern California's Pacific Rim economy. As a noirish revelation of power and secret history of L.A., this is a stunning non-fiction sequel to Robert Towne's Chinatown." -- Mike Davis * author of City of Quartz *"A wonderful, muckraking account of arrogance and the pursuit of economic power. Highly recommended." * Choice *"This important book should rightly take its place alongside such works as Mike Davis's City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, Gray Brechin's Imperial San Francisco, and Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire on the shelf of standard noir literature on California's development. Reflecting Victor Valle's prize-winning talents as an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, much of the narrative of City of Industry reads as well as a Dashiell Hammett novel." -- Michael R. Adamson * Pacific Historical Review *"The history of the tale of political intrigue, manipulation of state and local laws, monopolistic business practices, and outright bribery is revealed in City of Industry. Like a Progressive Era muckraker, Valle digs deeply into his evidence to dissect corruption on one level and raise a consciousness of what he sees as similar behavior on a much larger scale." * Southern California Quarterly *"The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Victor Valle is the pit bull of Los Angeles writers. In the mid-1980s he sank his teeth into a story about corruption in the strange city-state of Industry, and he never let go. Now, after twenty years of relentless sleuthing, he tells a tale of epic greed that began in the dusty hills east of Los Angeles but now engrosses the very centers of power in Southern California's Pacific Rim economy. As a noirish revelation of power and secret history of L.A., this is a stunning non-fiction sequel to Robert Towne's Chinatown." -- Mike Davis * author of City of Quartz *"A wonderful, muckraking account of arrogance and the pursuit of economic power. Highly recommended." * Choice *"This important book should rightly take its place alongside such works as Mike Davis's City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, Gray Brechin's Imperial San Francisco, and Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire on the shelf of standard noir literature on California's development. Reflecting Victor Valle's prize-winning talents as an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, much of the narrative of City of Industry reads as well as a Dashiell Hammett novel." -- Michael R. Adamson * Pacific Historical Review *"The history of the tale of political intrigue, manipulation of state and local laws, monopolistic business practices, and outright bribery is revealed in City of Industry. Like a Progressive Era muckraker, Valle digs deeply into his evidence to dissect corruption on one level and raise a consciousness of what he sees as similar behavior on a much larger scale." * Southern California Quarterly *Table of ContentsAchnowledgments Introduction His Theater of Shame A Legacy of Debt, Rails, and Nooses In the School of Power Graduation Day "We don't like the dirty deal" Triangulating the Throne Constructing their Ladder Defending their Ladder The Other Chinatowns Jim's Busy Period Assembling Jim's Portrait Jim's Hot Vegas Tip A Punishing Gaze Performing His Whiteness Burying the Body Epilogue Index

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Book SynopsisAs cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories behind these sites, from Philadelphia's Liberty Lands park to Lisbon's Green Plan, and it looks at the ways in which these narratives can be leveraged toward future engagement and use.Trade ReviewCyclical City is original and substantial in its approach to urban landscapes and to their capacity to address the challenges of growth, decline, vacancy, and neglect—issues that face most cities in the twenty-first century. " - Thaïsa Way, University of Washington, author of The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design

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Book SynopsisIn today’s globalised world, modern society is characterized by rapid transitions in space that are in part the result of technological developments of previous decades.Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Amnon Frenkel, Peter Nijkamp and Philip McCann PART I: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 1. The Spatial Consequences of Autarky in Land-use Regulation: Strategic Interaction or Simply Parallelism? Paavo Monkkonen and John M. Quigley 2. Intra-urban Mobility and Changing Density Functions in Tel Aviv, 1995–2006 Daniel Felsenstein and Shlomie Hazam 3. The Role of Monetary and Financial Factors in Regional Development: An Overview Masagus M. Ridhwan, Peter Nijkamp, Piet Rietveld and Henri L.F. de Groot PART II: INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION 4. Spatial Mobility of Firms Piet H. Pellenbarg and Joris Knoben 5. The Location of Knowledge Economy and High-tech in Israel Dafna Schwartz, Gil Avnimelech and Raphael Bar-El 6. University–Industry Technology Transfer: Fostering and Hindering Factors and Programmes Amnon Frenkel and Daniel Shefer PART III: HUMAN CAPITAL, MIGRATION AND LABOUR FORCE 7. The Effect of Asset and Credit Constraint on Interregional Labour Migration Patricio Aroca, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Michael Sonis 8. Circular Statistics, Migration Models and the Directionality of Job Search Processes Alessandra Faggian, Jonathan Corcoran and Philip McCann 9. Commuting and Migration: Can They be Complementary? Raphael Bar-El and Miki Malul 10. Globalisation, the CEECs and European Policy Daniela Constantin, Zizi Goschin and Philip McCann 11. Spatial Filtering Methods for Tracing Space–Time Developments in an Open Regional System: Experiments with German Unemployment Data Roberto Patuelli, Daniel A. Griffith, Michael Tiefelsdorf and Peter Nijkamp PART IV: SPATIAL MOBILITY 12. The Role of Computing in Urban Travel Forecasting: How Transportation Planning Practice Shaped Software, and Software Impacted Transportation Planning Practice David Boyce and Hillel Bar-Gera 13. Sustainable Transportation Development and Travel Behavior Yoram Shiftan and Daniel Shefer 14. Reinventing the Wheel: Planning the Rail Network to Meet the Mobility Needs of the 21st Century Moshe Givoni and David Banister 15. Are Urban Transportation Benefits Absorbed Fully by Land Values? Haim Aviram and Daniel Shefer Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘This is a well-written international engagement with pedagogical innovation and change in planning education. I agree with the authors that right now, spatial planning is crucial to planetary survival but that there are profound challenges to overcome. The book provides a range of case studies that will provide the planning educator, or any other reader, an opportunity to examine how context interfaces with pedagogical approaches, and ultimately to learn from them.’ -- -- Nancy Odendaal, University of Cape Town, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xv Daniel Galland 1 Introduction: transformational change in planning education pedagogy? 1 Andrea I. Frank and Artur da Rosa Pires PART I PEDAGOGICAL DEBATES 2 Education for 21st century urban and spatial planning: critical postmodern pedagogies 20 Terry Lamb and Goran Vodicka 3 Planning education and planning the university: a becoming-symbiosis 39 Ronald Barnett PART II TEACHING AND LEARNING IN, FOR AND WITH COMMUNITIES 4 Pedagogy built on working with communities: a first semester core course 57 Ayse Yonder, Mercedes Narciso and Juan Camilo Osorio 5 Planning with the community: engaged professional education in ethno-nationally contested city 74 Rachel Kallus 6 Challenges in education of participatory planning: collaborating with patients and physicians to plan mental health facilities 94 Elsa Vivant 7 Beyond the classroom: new skills through community– university outreach 108 Camila D’Ottaviano and João Farias Rovati 8 Collaborative and innovative participatory planning pedagogies: reflections from the Community Participation in Planning project 125 Gavan Rafferty, Grazia Concilio, José Carlos Mota, Fernando Nogueira, Emma Puerari and Louise O’Kane PART III DEVELOPING NEW CLASSROOM-BASED COMPETENCIES 9 Urban design studio as a critical learning space within the architecture curriculum: the evolving pedagogical approach to “PROJECTO 5” 142 Teresa Calix 10 Addressing the interplay of design-based disciplines and social sciences in urban development education 157 Lukas Gilliard, Nadia Alaily-Mattar and Alain Thierstein 11 Using theatre and performance for greater reflexivity in planning and design education 174 Marleen Buizer and Iulian Barba Lata 12 MIKROAKADEMIE: peer learning to enrich the curriculum and enhance participation and self-reflection 188 Andreas Brück and Angela Million PART IV FURTHER EDUCATION AND LIFE-LONG CAPACITY BUILDING 13 Online, but not isolated: addressing a key challenge of digital distance learning 204 Adam Sheppard 14 A problem-based and process-oriented curriculum in continuing education 221 Anita Grams 15 Professional training for social responsibility: fundamentals and practice of a residency programme in architecture and urbanism 236 Maria L. Refinetti Martins and Paula Custódio de Oliveira 16 A student workshop on tactical urbanism: one day to change the 100th year neighbourhood? 251 Duygu Cihanger Ribeiro 17 Conclusion: nurturing new learning landscapes and pedagogies 267 Artur da Rosa Pires and Andrea I. Frank Index 281

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Book SynopsisIn this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements within systems, but as deliberative actors with ambitions, desires, strategies and objectives.Trade Review‘I consider this edited volume to be more than a welcome contribution and a notorious collection for all scholars, keen to understand the theoretical grounding, practices, patterns and types of leadership, as well as the manifestation of that leadership in local and regional socio-economic development and policy.’ -- Eduardo Oliveira, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘The Handbook on City and Regional Leadership is the first comprehensive overview of place leadership in urban and regional research, edited by pioneers of the concept, Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer. Publication of the Handbook is very timely with the significant growth of research on the importance of agency in regional development in recent years. The Handbook covers a broad range of topics ranging from theoretical issues and empirical studies to methodological questions. It contains a rich and stimulating compilation of chapters and is a must-read for researchers as well as policy makers interested in promoting place leadership.’Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I THE SETUP AND THE PLOT 1 Introduction to city and regional leadership 2 Markku Sotarauta and Andrew Beer 2 Place, city, regional, rural … leadership: a review 19 Andrew Beer, Markku Sotarauta and Karen Ayles PART II THEORETICAL AND THEMATIC AREAS 3 Old wine in a new bottle: Revisiting organisational conceptions of leadership to understand what place leaders ‘actually’ do to make things happen 41 Alyson Nicholds 4 Place leadership, policy-making and politics 57 Alessandro Sancino, Leslie Budd and Michela Pagani 5 Re-imagining place leadership as social purpose 71 John Gibney and Alyson Nicholds 6 Roles of formal and informal leadership: civil society leadership interaction with political leadership in local development 91 Oto Potluka 7 Place leadership and corporate spatial responsibilities 108 Hans-Hermann Albers and Lech Suwala 8 Place-based leadership ‘beyond place’: the rise of international city diplomacy 131 Robin Hambleton 9 Combinatorial power and place leadership 152 Markku Sotarauta PART III EMPIRICAL STUDIES 10 From coal-mining to data-mining: the role of leadership in the emergence of a regional innovation system in an old industrial region 168 Jiří Blažek and Viktor Květoň 11 The supporting and hampering role of place leadership in Italian industrial districts 187 Marco Bellandi, Monica Plechero and Erica Santini 12 Patterns of place leadership: institutional change and path development in peripheral regions 203 Markku Sotarauta, Heli Kurikka, and Jari Kolehmainen 13 Universities and place leadership: a question of agency and alignment 226 Liliana Fonseca, Lisa Nieth, Maria Salomaa and Paul Benneworth 14 Establishing leadership in a ‘busy’ governance structure 248 Martin Quinn 15 Inclusive leadership and local economic development: perspectives from Latin American peripheral regions 266 Sergio Montero and Andrés M. Medina-Garzón PART IV METHODOLOGY 16 Theory, methods and innovation in the study of place leadership: a review of the opportunity 281 Andrew Beer and Jacob Irving 17 Investigating agency: methodological and empirical challenges 302 Markus Grillitsch, Josephine V. Rekers and Markku Sotarauta 18 Action research as a methodology for the construction of territorial leadership 324 James Karlsen and Miren Larrea 19 Narrative and leadership: lessons for policy and place leadership 343 Helen Dinmore and Andrew Beer Index

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is on how public policy - and especially the planning system - both shapes and reflects the essential characteristics of land and property markets. It challenges the common misconceptions that property markets operate in isolation from public policy and that planning permission is the only significant form of state intervention in the market. Planning, Public Policy & Property Markets contends that effective state-market relations in land and property are critical to a prosperous economy and a robust democracy, especially at a time when development aims to be sustainable and environmental protection needs to be matched by urban and rural regeneration. The book thus reflects an increased realisation among academics and practitioners of the importance of theoretical integration and joined-up' policy-making. Its rounded perspective addresses a significant weakness in the academic literature and will encourage broaTrade Review"I found this a very clear and readable book, well categorised into different aspects of the topic ... [It] should help advance understanding of how the state and the market interact, and thereby improve the effectiveness of the state’s actions when seeking to influence market outcomes." Planning in London "It is the breadth of approaches and topics that marks the book's distinctive contribution." Housing Studies "This is a an interesting study and a valuable addition to the literature on property markets." European Spatial Research and Policy Vol. 13, No. 1 "It is a profoundly thought-over study which introduces new insights into not always acknowledged reflections on spatial organisation." European Spatial Research and Policy Vol. 13, No. 2Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Abbreviations. Part 1: Introduction. 1 Examining Public Policy and Property Markets. David Adams, Craig Watkins and Michael White Introduction The Scope of The Book Property Research and Public Policy Structure of the Book . Part 2: Conceptualising Relationships. 2. Conceptualising State-Market Relations in Land and Property: The Mainstream Contribution of Neo-Classical and Welfare Economics. David Adams, Neil Dunse and Michael White Introduction Insights on Supply, Demand and Public Policy from Neo-Classical Economics Insights on Market Failure and Public Policy from Welfare Economics Conclusions Notes . . 3. Conceptualising State-Market Relations in Land and Property: The Growth of Institutionalism – Extension or Challenge to Mainstream Economics?. David Adams, Neil Dunse and Michael White Introduction The Institutional Framework for Land and Property Market Operations New Institutional Economics The Political Economy of Institutionalism Uncertainty, Risk Containment and Confidence Building Conclusions Notes . 4. Planning Tools and Markets: Towards an Extended Conceptualisation. Steve Tiesdell and Philip Allmendinger Introduction Understanding ‘Planning’ Mainstream Economics The Political Economy of Institutionalism A Typology of Planning Tools Market Characteristics Conclusions Notes . Part 3: Unravelling the Relationships. Section 3.1: Modelling Relationships. 5. Modelling Local Housing Market Adjustment in England. Glen Bramley and Chris Leishman Introduction Background Datasets Modelling Framework and Techniques Estimation of Key Relationships Policy Simulations Conclusions Appendix 5.1: Variable Definitions and Sources . . 6. Estimating the Impact of Planning on Commercial Property Markets . John Henneberry, Tony McGough and Fotis Mouzakis Introduction Model Development and Specification Empirical Study and Results Conclusions Notes Appendix 6.1: Results . Section 3.2: Measurement Issues. 7. UK Roads Policy, Accessibility and Industrial Property Rents . Neil Dunse and Colin Jones Introduction Roads Policy and the UK Motorway Network Transport Infrastructure and the Spatial Economy Measuring the Effect of Transport Investment Hedonic Pricing Analysis and the Impact of the UK Motorway Network Discussion and Policy Implications Notes . . 8. Urban Regeneration, Property Indices and Market Performance. Alastair Adair, Jim Berry, Ken Gibb, Norman Hutchison, Stanley McGreal and Craig Watkins Introduction The Urban Regeneration Policy Context Data and Research Methods Comparing Urban Regeneration and Prime Property Market Performance The Total Returns Index Conclusions . Section 3.3: Surveys and Case Studies. 9. Planning for Consumers’ New-Build Housing Choices. Chris Leishman and Fran Warren Introduction Planning and New-Build Housing The New-Build Housing Choice Process The Housing Preference Study Overview of the Findings Preferences and Satisfaction with Room Layouts and Features Density and Variety on New-Build Housing Estates Conclusions . 10. Planning Obligations and Affordable Housing. Sarah Monk, Christina Short and Christine Whitehead Introduction The Research Context Research Methods How Much Affordable Housing is Being Provided? Government Evidence How is s106 Operating? Evidence from Local Authorities What is Happening on the Ground? Evidence from the Local Authority Case studies Conclusions . 11. Reinforcing Commercial Competitiveness Through City Centre Renewal . Gwyndaf Williams and Stuart Batho Introduction Urban Governance and the Entrepreneurial City Centre The Local Governance and Development Context Mobilising Regeneration Capacity: The Study Approach Reinforcing Commercial Competitiveness Commercial Impact of the Renewal Programme Conclusions . Section 4: Conclusions. 12. Planning, Public Policy and Property Markets: Current Relations and Future Challenges . David Adams, Craig Watkins and Michael White Introduction What State Actors Could Learn About the Market What Market Actors Could Learn About the State The Evolving Research Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References. Index

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Book SynopsisImplementing City Sustainability examines the structures and processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. As American cities adoptsustainabilityobjectives, they are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination, and collective action challenges to achieve successful implementation. Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning, public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply it to local sustainability to explain how cities canand in some cases doorganize to successfully administer changes to achieve complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations. Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research design and original data to provide a national overv

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Book SynopsisImplementing City Sustainability examines the structures and processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental, social, and economic well-being within their communities. As American cities adoptsustainabilityobjectives, they are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination, and collective action challenges to achieve successful implementation. Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning, public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply it to local sustainability to explain how cities canand in some cases doorganize to successfully administer changes to achieve complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations. Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research design and original data to provide a national overv

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of The Suburban Land Question is to identify the common elements of land development in suburban regions around the world.Table of ContentsPrologue: Photo Essay on the Spatial Morphology of Suburban Land Development 1. The suburban land question: introduction 2. Alternative peripheries: socialist mass housing compared to modern suburbia 3. Differentiated landscapes of suburban property 4. Beyond the suburban field 5. The morphology of dispersed suburbanism 6. The paradox of informality and formality 7. Comparing recent suburban developments in Austria and the Netherlands 8. Factors affecting development patterns in the suburbs of small to mid-sized Canadian cities 9. Latin American suburbia 10. Urban governance, land use, and housing affordability 11. An effective public partnership for suburban land development 12. Production of Land for Real Estate Markets in the Suburban Area of Chennai Metropolis 13. Conclusion: what are the suburban land questions?

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Book SynopsisThe Seventh Annual Seminar of Canadian-American relations held at the University of Windsor brought together a number of distinguished participants, representing such interested groups as labour, business, and research, to discuss planning. The result is this volume which brings together some of the contributors to discuss this important and controversial area of Canadian-American relations.The noted economist Harry G. Johnson begins by defining planning in the Canadian-American context as 'the general process of attempting to take stock of the present situation and its evolving trends, predict the general direction of future developments, assess these in the light of generally accepted social and economic goals, and where necessary formulate programs and policies designed to shape future developments as closely as possible to conform to what is considered to be in the social interest.' He then identifies several promising areas for joint planning, including the liberali

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of The Suburban Land Question is to identify the common elements of land development in suburban regions around the world.Table of ContentsPrologue: Photo Essay on the Spatial Morphology of Suburban Land Development 1. The suburban land question: introduction 2. Alternative peripheries: socialist mass housing compared to modern suburbia 3. Differentiated landscapes of suburban property 4. Beyond the suburban field 5. The morphology of dispersed suburbanism 6. The paradox of informality and formality 7. Comparing recent suburban developments in Austria and the Netherlands 8. Factors affecting development patterns in the suburbs of small to mid-sized Canadian cities 9. Latin American suburbia 10. Urban governance, land use, and housing affordability 11. An effective public partnership for suburban land development 12. Production of Land for Real Estate Markets in the Suburban Area of Chennai Metropolis 13. Conclusion: what are the suburban land questions?

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Book SynopsisWritten by an experienced author and widely respected academic, this valuable book asks whether the planning system is to blame for the frequent criticism it receives and discusses the ways in which management theories, tools and techniques can be applied to planning.Trade Review“Planning is a vital and distinctive activity, but the highest level of management and leadership are required to get it right. Clearly applying management theory to planning and planners, this important books fills a real gap in the literature.” Ben Clifford, University College London"As this book explains, effective leadership and management are crucial to successful planning. All those who aspire to leadership positions in planning would do well to heed its advice." David Adams, University of Glasgow"Good leadership in planning is recognised as a vital quality for the creation of successful places. This comprehensive book gives public and private sector planners a real insight into how to achieve this in the context of a declining public sector in an increasingly privatised world." Janet Askew, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute 2015 and University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction; Sector and Scales; Theories, tools and techniques; Strategy and Planning; managing resources in planning: people and communications; Managing Resources for planning; finance; Managing planning processes; managing planning; projects, plans and programmes; Sustainable Management and Risk; personal management in planning.

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Book SynopsisWritten by an experienced author and widely respected academic, this valuable book asks whether the planning system is to blame for the frequent criticism it receives and discusses the ways in which management theories, tools and techniques can be applied to planning.Trade Review“Planning is a vital and distinctive activity, but the highest level of management and leadership are required to get it right. Clearly applying management theory to planning and planners, this important books fills a real gap in the literature.” Ben Clifford, University College London"As this book explains, effective leadership and management are crucial to successful planning. All those who aspire to leadership positions in planning would do well to heed its advice." David Adams, University of Glasgow"Good leadership in planning is recognised as a vital quality for the creation of successful places. This comprehensive book gives public and private sector planners a real insight into how to achieve this in the context of a declining public sector in an increasingly privatised world." Janet Askew, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute 2015 and University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction; Sector and Scales; Theories, tools and techniques; Strategy and Planning; managing resources in planning: people and communications; Managing Resources for planning; finance; Managing planning processes; managing planning; projects, plans and programmes; Sustainable Management and Risk; personal management in planning.

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Book SynopsisInternational contributors from academia, research, policy and practice use their experience and knowledge to explore on-going efforts to improve spatial resilience across the globe and predict future trends.Trade Review“In times of growing awareness on the crucial role of spatial planning in disaster recovery and resilience building this book meets the challenge outstandingly by bringing together prominent contributors from academia, research and policy-making to judge remediation efforts after calamities with an indelible imprint on human history." Sapountzaki Kalliopi, Harokopio University, GreeceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Disaster response and spatial planning – key challenges and strategies ~ Stefan Greiving; PART A; I. Japan; Disaster risk management and land use in Japan: In geography vulnerable to water-related disasters ~ Kanako Iuchi; Spatial Planning Control for Housing Recovery after Great East Japan Earthquake ~ Tamiyo Kondo; Reconstruction plans and planning processes after the Great East Japan Earthquake ~ Michio Ubaura; II. Indonesia; Land use politics after Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 ~ Togu Pardede; Coastal resilience in Indonesia: From plan to implementation ~ Surtiari, G.A.K ., Garschagen, M ., Birkmann , J., Setiadi, N ., Manuati, Y; III. USA; Planning for resilience in the New York metro region after Superstorm Sandy ~ Donovan Finn; IV. Slovakia; Spatial planning focusing on risk management in Slovakia ~ Alena Kučeravcová, Jan Dzurdženík; Enhancement of flood management and flood-protection planning in Eastern Slovakia ~ Jozef Šuľak, Jaroslav Tešliar; V. Germany; Flood risk management by spatial planning ~ Stefan Greiving, Nadine Mägdefrau; Major-accident hazards in spatial planning ~ Nadine Mägdefrau; Cross-Analysis of Part A ~ Stefan Greiving, Nadine Mägdefrau, Teresa Sprague; PART B; Planning systems for risk reduction and issues in pre-disaster implementation ~ Kanako Iuchi; Efforts and limitations in spatial transformation after disasters ~ Michio Ubaur; Role of coordination in building spatial resilience after disasters ~ Alena Kučeravcová, Jozef Šuľak, Jaroslav Tešliar, Ján Dzurdženík; Residents’ participation in rebuilding more resilient space ~ Nadine Mägdefrau, Teresa Sprague; Spatial planning and uncertainties associated with future disasters ~ Stefan Greiving; Conclusion: Change-proof cities and regions – an integrated concept for tackling key challenges for spatial development ~ Stefan Greiving, Kanako Iuchi, Jaroslav Tesliar, Michio Ubaura.

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Book SynopsisInternational contributors from academia, research, policy and practice use their experience and knowledge to explore on-going efforts to improve spatial resilience across the globe and predict future trends.Trade Review“In times of growing awareness on the crucial role of spatial planning in disaster recovery and resilience building this book meets the challenge outstandingly by bringing together prominent contributors from academia, research and policy-making to judge remediation efforts after calamities with an indelible imprint on human history." Sapountzaki Kalliopi, Harokopio University, GreeceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Disaster response and spatial planning – key challenges and strategies ~ Stefan Greiving; PART A; I. Japan; Disaster risk management and land use in Japan: In geography vulnerable to water-related disasters ~ Kanako Iuchi; Spatial Planning Control for Housing Recovery after Great East Japan Earthquake ~ Tamiyo Kondo; Reconstruction plans and planning processes after the Great East Japan Earthquake ~ Michio Ubaura; II. Indonesia; Land use politics after Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004 ~ Togu Pardede; Coastal resilience in Indonesia: From plan to implementation ~ Surtiari, G.A.K ., Garschagen, M ., Birkmann , J., Setiadi, N ., Manuati, Y; III. USA; Planning for resilience in the New York metro region after Superstorm Sandy ~ Donovan Finn; IV. Slovakia; Spatial planning focusing on risk management in Slovakia ~ Alena Kučeravcová, Jan Dzurdženík; Enhancement of flood management and flood-protection planning in Eastern Slovakia ~ Jozef Šuľak, Jaroslav Tešliar; V. Germany; Flood risk management by spatial planning ~ Stefan Greiving, Nadine Mägdefrau; Major-accident hazards in spatial planning ~ Nadine Mägdefrau; Cross-Analysis of Part A ~ Stefan Greiving, Nadine Mägdefrau, Teresa Sprague; PART B; Planning systems for risk reduction and issues in pre-disaster implementation ~ Kanako Iuchi; Efforts and limitations in spatial transformation after disasters ~ Michio Ubaur; Role of coordination in building spatial resilience after disasters ~ Alena Kučeravcová, Jozef Šuľak, Jaroslav Tešliar, Ján Dzurdženík; Residents’ participation in rebuilding more resilient space ~ Nadine Mägdefrau, Teresa Sprague; Spatial planning and uncertainties associated with future disasters ~ Stefan Greiving; Conclusion: Change-proof cities and regions – an integrated concept for tackling key challenges for spatial development ~ Stefan Greiving, Kanako Iuchi, Jaroslav Tesliar, Michio Ubaura.

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Book SynopsisThrough varied case studies this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities over 10 years, to present a compelling framework showing how Europe's post-industrial cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.Trade Review“Europe's economic future is bound up with the future of its cities. Based on an analysis of how and why some cities have found a new route to success this resulting guide is informative and practical, and will be hugely valuable to others.” Howard Davies, chair Royal Bank of Scotland"Many of Europe's stories cities have seen more bust than boom for decades, writes urban-sustainability specialist Anne Power. Yet a number have risen reinvented, and in this brilliant analysis, Power shows how." Barbara Kiser, Nature"The dynamics of cities have determined the welfare of Europe throughout history. Now that our societies are at an ecological and social tipping point, cities must lead the way for the future. Cities for a Small Continent provides many ideas and insights into how they can do just that." Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, France"Anne Power is a tireless enthusiast for cities and a better society. This is a passionate, original and informative book, telling how urban reinvention can create a more radical and sustainable future.” Richard Rogers, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners"This publication offers real hope for something better. We can learn to live together in close proximity, offering communitarian answers to social and economic transitions. What shines through in all the examples is how in a small continent, we can turn necessity into a fairer, more sustainable world. The message is one of hope." David Blunkett Former leader of Sheffield City Council and former National Government Cabinet Minster, 1997-2006"Anne Power's book charts a new future towards cleaner, less congested, more productive and attractive cities. It builds on a strong sense of history and a deep understanding of the dynamics of cities. It is a very important contribution." Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics, Grantham Institute on Climate Change"An essential read, arriving at a time when European cities are on the front lines of addressing some of the continent's most pressing challenges: international migration, demographic transformation, climate change, sluggish economic growth and public safety." Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar, The Brookings InstitutionTable of ContentsForeword ~ ?Richard Rogers; Cities in a Crowded Continent; Divided and United Europe; Grit and Vision; Struggle and Strive; Threats and Opportunities; Over scale and under scale; The Power of Social Innovation; Shoots of growth in US Cities ~ Bruce Katz and Alex Jones; New Ways Out of the Woods.

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Book SynopsisThrough varied case studies this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities over 10 years, to present a compelling framework showing how Europe's post-industrial cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.Trade Review“Europe's economic future is bound up with the future of its cities. Based on an analysis of how and why some cities have found a new route to success this resulting guide is informative and practical, and will be hugely valuable to others.” Howard Davies, chair Royal Bank of Scotland"Many of Europe's stories cities have seen more bust than boom for decades, writes urban-sustainability specialist Anne Power. Yet a number have risen reinvented, and in this brilliant analysis, Power shows how." Barbara Kiser, Nature"The dynamics of cities have determined the welfare of Europe throughout history. Now that our societies are at an ecological and social tipping point, cities must lead the way for the future. Cities for a Small Continent provides many ideas and insights into how they can do just that." Martine Aubry, Mayor of Lille, France"Anne Power is a tireless enthusiast for cities and a better society. This is a passionate, original and informative book, telling how urban reinvention can create a more radical and sustainable future.” Richard Rogers, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners"This publication offers real hope for something better. We can learn to live together in close proximity, offering communitarian answers to social and economic transitions. What shines through in all the examples is how in a small continent, we can turn necessity into a fairer, more sustainable world. The message is one of hope." David Blunkett Former leader of Sheffield City Council and former National Government Cabinet Minster, 1997-2006"Anne Power's book charts a new future towards cleaner, less congested, more productive and attractive cities. It builds on a strong sense of history and a deep understanding of the dynamics of cities. It is a very important contribution." Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics, Grantham Institute on Climate Change"An essential read, arriving at a time when European cities are on the front lines of addressing some of the continent's most pressing challenges: international migration, demographic transformation, climate change, sluggish economic growth and public safety." Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar, The Brookings InstitutionTable of ContentsForeword ~ ?Richard Rogers; Cities in a Crowded Continent; Divided and United Europe; Grit and Vision; Struggle and Strive; Threats and Opportunities; Over scale and under scale; The Power of Social Innovation; Shoots of growth in US Cities ~ Bruce Katz and Alex Jones; New Ways Out of the Woods.

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of neighbourhood planning. Setting empirical evidence from the UK against international examples, the Editors engage in broader debates on the purposes of planning and the devolution of power to localities.Trade Review"This book provides an analytical, current, and essential insight into localism and neighbourhood planning and is a must read for anyone studying or engaging in urban planning and public policy today." Adam Sheppard, University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Sue Brownill and Quintin Bradley; Part One: Understanding and characterising neighbourhood planning; Neighbourhood planning and the purposes and practices of localism ~ Sue Brownill; Neighbourhoods, communities and the local scale ~ Quintin Bradley; Neighbourhood planning and the spatial practices of localism ~ Quintin Bradley, Amy Burnett and William Sparling; The uneven geographies of neighbourhood planning in England ~ Gavin Parker; Part Two: Experiences, contestations and debates; Developing a neighbourhood plan: stories from ‘community-led’ planning pathfinders ~ David McGuiness and Carol Ludwig; Voices from the neighbourhood: stories from the participants in neighbourhood plans and the professionals working with them ~ Edited by Quintin Bradley and Sue Brownill; Participation and conflict in the formation of neighbourhood areas and forums in ‘super-diverse’ cities ~ Claire Colomb; Assembling neighbourhoods: topologies of power and the re-shaping of planning ~ Sue Brownill; A passion for place: the emotional identifications and empowerment of neighbourhood planning ~ Quintin Bradley; Part Three: International comparisons in community planning; Community-based planning and localism in the devolved UK ~ Simon Pemberton; Citizen participation, an essential lever for urban transformation in France? ~ Camille Gardesse and Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger; Localism and neighbourhood planning in Australian public policy and governance ~ Paul Burton; The many lives of neighbourhood planning in the United States: much ado about Something? ~ Larry Bennett; Part Four: Reflections and conclusions; Reflections on neighbourhood planning: towards a progressive localism ~ Quintin Bradley and Sue Brownill.

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of neighbourhood planning. Setting empirical evidence from the UK against international examples, the Editors engage in broader debates on the purposes of planning and the devolution of power to localities.Trade Review"This book provides an analytical, current, and essential insight into localism and neighbourhood planning and is a must read for anyone studying or engaging in urban planning and public policy today." Adam Sheppard, University of the West of EnglandTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Sue Brownill and Quintin Bradley; Part One: Understanding and characterising neighbourhood planning; Neighbourhood planning and the purposes and practices of localism ~ Sue Brownill; Neighbourhoods, communities and the local scale ~ Quintin Bradley; Neighbourhood planning and the spatial practices of localism ~ Quintin Bradley, Amy Burnett and William Sparling; The uneven geographies of neighbourhood planning in England ~ Gavin Parker; Part Two: Experiences, contestations and debates; Developing a neighbourhood plan: stories from `community-led’ planning pathfinders ~ David McGuiness and Carol Ludwig; Voices from the neighbourhood: stories from the participants in neighbourhood plans and the professionals working with them ~ Edited by Quintin Bradley and Sue Brownill; Participation and conflict in the formation of neighbourhood areas and forums in `super-diverse’ cities ~ Claire Colomb; Assembling neighbourhoods: topologies of power and the re-shaping of planning ~ Sue Brownill; A passion for place: the emotional identifications and empowerment of neighbourhood planning ~ Quintin Bradley; Part Three: International comparisons in community planning; Community-based planning and localism in the devolved UK ~ Simon Pemberton; Citizen participation, an essential lever for urban transformation in France? ~ Camille Gardesse and Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger; Localism and neighbourhood planning in Australian public policy and governance ~ Paul Burton; The many lives of neighbourhood planning in the United States: much ado about Something? ~ Larry Bennett; Part Four: Reflections and conclusions; Reflections on neighbourhood planning: towards a progressive localism ~ Quintin Bradley and Sue Brownill.

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Book SynopsisMarshall examines the ideological structuring of current planning models and the interplay of political interests. He analyses attempts at planning reform by recent governments to show how we can generate more effective political engagements for common gain.Table of ContentsIntroducing planning, politics and ideology Writing on politics and ideology in planning Ideologies in Britain, with initial linking to planning Planning history, planning reform and politics and ideology Planning expertise and planning law: autonomy from politics and ideology? Ideology and politics in government, central and local Ideology and politics in professions, lobbying, consultancies and pressure groups Communication, the media and deliberation Facets of planning action: heritage, local environment and design Fields of planning action: housing, economy and infrastructure Paths to improving the ideological and political dimensions of planning

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Book SynopsisMarshall examines the ideological structuring of current planning models and the interplay of political interests. He analyses attempts at planning reform by recent governments to show how we can generate more effective political engagements for common gain.Trade Review''This is much more than a ‘methodology book’; it re-imagines what criminology might be. I already want to re-read... A book to inspire the novice and long-time criminologist in equal measure.'' * Jennifer Fleetwood, Goldsmiths, University of London *‘’Dazzling in its methodological, conceptual and theoretical scope, the authors provide a compelling critical contribution to criminological analyses of time, space and place. This book is testament to the fact that criminology can be imaginative!’’ * Yvonne Jewkes, University of Bath *Table of ContentsIntroducing planning, politics and ideology Writing on politics and ideology in planning Ideologies in Britain, with initial linking to planning Planning history, planning reform and politics and ideology Planning expertise and planning law: autonomy from politics and ideology? Ideology and politics in government, central and local Ideology and politics in professions, lobbying, consultancies and pressure groups Communication, the media and deliberation Facets of planning action: heritage, local environment and design Fields of planning action: housing, economy and infrastructure Paths to improving the ideological and political dimensions of planning

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Book SynopsisFocusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.Trade Review"This book is a fascinating read and its message is spot on. The need for increasing the delivery of new homes has never been more urgent - but equally vital is building homes that are beautiful, energy efficient and that add value to the local community. Thank you Shaun, this book is essential reading for all housing policy makers." Sue Chalkley, Hastoe Housing Association"A must read for anyone interested in housing." Evan Davis, Journalist and Presenter"Finally a solution to the housing argument: Shaun Spiers has shown how we can build more homes and still save the countryside, so everyone wins." Alice Thomson, The Times"This is a book that needed to be written and which I hope officials, ministers, local authorities and - perhaps most of all - the volume house-builders read." Fiona Reynolds, Master of Emmanuel College and author of The Fight for Beauty“This book is at once reasonable and visionary - a remarkable combination, and a remarkably important contribution to one of the most important social policy debates of our time. Everyone interested in the question of how to meet our urgent housing needs, while also protecting the landscape, should read it.” Sir Andrew Motion"Rural planning in Britain has all but collapsed. How to restore it, how to reinvigorate the rural economy and chart who will live in it and how, is by far the biggest challenge to domestic politics in Britain. Thank god for this book and its clear thinking on the subject." Simon Jenkins, journalist and author“This book argues convincingly that the beauty of the English countryside is compatible with reasonable growth in housing if it is well planned and well designed - only matching beauty will do! Well done Shaun Spiers.” Sir Terry Farrell, Architect and Urban DesignerTable of ContentsHow to think about housing and planning; The housing crisis; Rural Housing; Environmental constraints; Political constraints; Structural constraints; Solutions; Challenge.

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Book SynopsisCharting the experience of Planning Aid England (PAE) past and present, this book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system.Trade Review"Parker and Street's well-informed book sets out an interesting proposal for securing greater justice within planning. It is sure to provoke intense discussion within professional and political circles." Huw Thomas, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction - why this book and why now, structure/content; Neoliberal times and participation in planning; Advocacy planning in review; Planning Aid and Advocacy; Neoadvocacy and contemporary issues in progressive planning; Conclusion: the ways ahead.

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Book SynopsisAfter Suburbia presents state-of-the-art suburban research to examine twenty-first century cities from the point of view of their peripheries.Table of ContentsOpenings 1. Beyond Suburban Stereotypes: Urban Peripheries in the 21st Century Fulong Wu and Roger Keil 2. The Power of the Image: Integrating Research and Teaching via Experiential Education Ute Lehrer 3. The New Urban Peripheries, 1990-2014: Selected Findings from a Global Sample of Cities Solly Angel, with contributions by Yang Liu, Alex M. Blei, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Nicolás Galarza Sanchez, and Sara Arango-Franco 4. Regional Urbanisation Processes in Contemporary Italy: Beyond the City, from the Country of One Hundred Cities Alessandro Balducci, Valeria Fedeli, and Camilla Perrone 5. Extended Urbanization, Urban Utopias, and Other Economies Roberto Luís Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota 6. A Dose of Density: The Urban Counter-Revolution Richard Harris Land, Infrastructure, Governance 7. Cities in a World of Villages: Agrarian Urbanism and the Making of India’s Urbanizing Frontiers Shubhra Gururani 8. The ‘Publicness’ of Suburban Infrastructure Planning: Cases from Toronto and Melbourne Crystal Legacy 9. Suburban Infrastructures: Benevolent Public Domain and Instruments of Control and Power Pierre Filion 10. Intertwined Modalities of Suburban Governance in China Fulong Wu 11. Governing Cities in a Post-suburban Era: New Challenges for Planning? Pierre Hamel After Suburbia – The Path Ahead 12. An Atlas of Suburbanisms Markus Moos 13. Decolonizing Suburban Research Rob Shields 14. Seeing through the Darkness of Future Past: ‘After-Suburbia’ from a Historical Perspective Ilja Van Damme and Stijn Oosterlynk 15. The After-Lives of “Suburbs:” Methodological and Conceptual Innovations in Urban Studies Jennifer Robinson 16. Africa’s Suburban Constellations Robin Bloch, Alan Mabin, and Alison Todes 17. Outside the Outside: Alienation, Fidelity and New Sub-Urbanizations Matt Hern 18. (Sub)Urban Vibrations: The Suburbanisation of Sex Shops and Sex Toys in Australia Paul Maginn and Christine Steinmetz 19. Manhattan in Orange County: Lippo and the Shenzhen of Indonesia Abidin Kusno 20. Transnationalism and Southern Suburbanization: Accounting for Translocalities in Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe Arnisson Andre C. Ortega Conclusion 21. After Suburbia: Peripheral Notes on Urban Theory Roger Keil Contributors List and Legend of Images

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Book SynopsisAfter Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multipleTable of ContentsOpenings 1. Beyond Suburban Stereotypes: Urban Peripheries in the 21st Century Fulong Wu and Roger Keil 2. The Power of the Image: Integrating Research and Teaching via Experiential Education Ute Lehrer 3. The New Urban Peripheries, 1990-2014: Selected Findings from a Global Sample of Cities Solly Angel, with contributions by Yang Liu, Alex M. Blei, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Nicolás Galarza Sanchez, and Sara Arango-Franco 4. Regional Urbanisation Processes in Contemporary Italy: Beyond the City, from the Country of One Hundred Cities Alessandro Balducci, Valeria Fedeli, and Camilla Perrone 5. Extended Urbanization, Urban Utopias, and Other Economies Roberto Luís Monte-Mór and Rodrigo Castriota 6. A Dose of Density: The Urban Counter-Revolution Richard Harris Land, Infrastructure, Governance 7. Cities in a World of Villages: Agrarian Urbanism and the Making of India’s Urbanizing Frontiers Shubhra Gururani 8. The ‘Publicness’ of Suburban Infrastructure Planning: Cases from Toronto and Melbourne Crystal Legacy 9. Suburban Infrastructures: Benevolent Public Domain and Instruments of Control and Power Pierre Filion 10. Intertwined Modalities of Suburban Governance in China Fulong Wu 11. Governing Cities in a Post-suburban Era: New Challenges for Planning? Pierre Hamel After Suburbia – The Path Ahead 12. An Atlas of Suburbanisms Markus Moos 13. Decolonizing Suburban Research Rob Shields 14. Seeing through the Darkness of Future Past: ‘After-Suburbia’ from a Historical Perspective Ilja Van Damme and Stijn Oosterlynk 15. The After-Lives of “Suburbs:” Methodological and Conceptual Innovations in Urban Studies Jennifer Robinson 16. Africa’s Suburban Constellations Robin Bloch, Alan Mabin, and Alison Todes 17. Outside the Outside: Alienation, Fidelity and New Sub-Urbanizations Matt Hern 18. (Sub)Urban Vibrations: The Suburbanisation of Sex Shops and Sex Toys in Australia Paul Maginn and Christine Steinmetz 19. Manhattan in Orange County: Lippo and the Shenzhen of Indonesia Abidin Kusno 20. Transnationalism and Southern Suburbanization: Accounting for Translocalities in Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe Arnisson Andre C. Ortega Conclusion 21. After Suburbia: Peripheral Notes on Urban Theory Roger Keil Contributors List and Legend of Images

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Book SynopsisIn recent years northern development has increasingly become a controversial issue in Canadian federal politics: the ensuing confusion of economic arguments and political discussion demonstrates the disorderly and inaccurate thinking of most Canadians on the subject. Professor Rea points out that the development of northern Canada has not been the spontaneous natural process which many Canadians seem to think: this traditional view has over-emphasized the climate and other natural influences on development at the expense of the more powerful forces of constitutional law, government policy, native culture, and western technology.This study offers a more balanced interpretation of the processes of development which shaped and limited the growth of economic and political life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories between the 1890s and the early 1960s. Much emphasis is placed on the role of government policy which was one of “developmental laissez-faire” until afte

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Book SynopsisAgriculture has historically been a critical and sensitive area in the Canadian economy. Grace Skogstad presents a detailed study of how agricultural policy has been made in recent years at the federal provincial levels. Three initiatives serve as the focus: income stabilization – a sphere in which the two levels share jurisdiction and responsibility; marketing of commodities – in which federal and provincial governments designate a national agency and provincial boards to act as their agents and the transportation of western grain – a federal responsibility. The transportation of western grain, traditionally subsided through the mechanism of the Crow’s Nest rates, has been the cause of frequent controversy in Canadian politics. Skogstad provides an in-depth analysis of the long and painful process of ‘revising the Crow’ that preoccupied so many politicians and farmers through much of the 1970s and 1980s.From her three case stu

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Book SynopsisProblems of regionalism have not received much attention from historians, who have been primarily concerned with central Canada. To increase the knowledge of this neglected area of study five seminars were held in the summer of 1967 under the auspices of the Canadian Historical Association and the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada with the help of a grant from the Centennial Commission. The five seminars, held at the universities of Saskatchewan, Victoria, Laval, Laurentian, and Memorial, discussed the same topic: Canadian regionalism since confederation. This volume includes the papers presented by twenty-one Canadian and American scholars.The papers deal with ideas and facts which in the past have not received much attention, and they provide clear evidence that there are more than the traditional two versions (English and French) of Canadian history. The wide range of opinion on basic Canadian problems will interest both the scholar and the general reader.

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Book SynopsisToday, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth—luck, immigration, local economic policies, and the pool of skilled labor—do not account for the contrast between the two cities and their fates. So what does? The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies challenges many of the conventional notions about economic development and sheds new light on its workings. The authors argue that it is essential to understand the interactions of three major components—economic specialization, human capital formation, and institutional factors—to determine how well a regional economy will cope with new opportunities and challenges. Drawing on economics, sociology, political science, and geography, they argue that the economic development of metropolitan regions hinges on previously underexplored capacities for organizational change in firms, networks of people, and networks of leaders. By studying San Francisco and Los Angeles in unprecedented levels of depth, this book extracts lessons for the field of economic development studies and urban regions around the world.Trade Review"This is a very serious new book about economics and policy written by a team of academics under the leadership of Michael Storper . . . But it is written in a very accessible style, using the structure of a scientific detective story. And it is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of California and cities more broadly."—Jon Christensen, SFGate"The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies is a path-breaking book, both empirically and theoretically. It brings together an impressive array of data that helps explain the divergent economic trajectories of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles region, and provides new theoretical insights on the importance of social networks and knowledge communities in shaping economic growth."—Chris Benner, University of California, Santa Cruz"Throughout history, commerce and cities have invented and paced each other. Once developed, cities entered into competition. Blending the perspectives of history, business, urban planning, and public/private partnership, this lively and exhaustively documented study tells the story of how two representative urban regions—the Bay Area centered on San Francisco and Los Angeles, a metropolitan region unto itself— have carried on this ancient and ever new competition for commerce and hegemony."—Kevin Starr, University of Southern California"A highly original inquiry into the diverging development trajectories of Los Angeles and San Francisco since the 1970s. This book offers exemplary forensic evidence, while at the same time providing a robust theoretical appraisal of regional growth in general."—Allen J. Scott, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles"Storper and his colleagues have crafted a sweeping yet nuanced account of how the economies of metropolitan Los Angeles and San Francisco have steadily diverged over the past several decades. Their interpretation, based on a wealth of data and interviews, has important lessons for many urban regions struggling to maintain or improve their place in the global economy."—Edward J. Malecki, The Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Divergent Development of City Regions chapter abstractEconomic development is geographically uneven; incomes differ widely across places. After a long period during which incomes tended to become more even across cities and regions within developed countries, they are now diverging again. In 1970, the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles regions had very similar per capita incomes; in 2012, Los Angeles was almost 30 percent lower than the Bay Area. Understanding this process of divergence, which is widespread among metropolitan regions around the world, is a window on understanding economic development more generally. 2Divergent Development: The Conceptual Challenge chapter abstractInnumerable forces influence economic development, and research on it uses many different methods and comes from several disciplines. Four theoretical fields that contribute to understanding divergent economic development of city regions are development theory, regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and the social science of institutions. Together, they provide a robust framework for understanding convergence and divergence in economic development. 3The Motor of Divergence: High-Wage or Low-Wage specialization chapter abstractThe specialization of urban regions in different tradable industries is the source of significant differences in wages and income levels. Los Angeles was more specialized than San Francisco in 1970 but considerably less specialized in 2010. During this period, San Francisco consolidated its specialization in activities related to information technology, and Los Angeles consolidated its hold on the entertainment industries, but Los Angeles lost many other high-wage specializations it formerly contained, replacing them with low-wage specializations. Los Angeles also lost its lead over San Francisco in innovative sectors, as the latter soared in its per capita patenting rate. All in all, Los Angeles's economy came to have less overall focus and sophistication, while San Francisco's came to have more. 4The Role of Labor in Divergence: Quality of Workers or Quality of Jobs? chapter abstractDifferences in average regional wages between San Francisco and Los Angeles increased from 5 percent in 1970 to 35 percent in 2010. Wage gaps are due partially to increasing differences in the skills of the labor force but are proportionally greater than the increase in skills gaps. Skills gaps themselves must also be explained. Do they emerge as different kinds of people migrate or stay according to different kinds of jobs created in the two regions? Or is it the reverse: people go to the two regions in search of lifestyle amenities and housing, and the two economies diverge by absorbing different kinds of people? This is the key debate in urban labor economics. This chapter shows that the key force in drawing different kinds of labor was an increasing gap in the types of employment available, itself driven by differences in regional economic specialization. 5Economic Specialization: Pathways to Change chapter abstractIndustries, firms, and entrepreneurs in the Bay Area and Los Angeles did not plan the economic divergence of their regions. They faced challenges from the restructuring of the Old Economy and benefited from the opportunities of the New Economy. Their successes and failures widened the income gap between the two regions. This chapter presents comparative case studies of entertainment, aerospace, information technology, logistics, and biotechnology in San Francisco and Los Angeles, showing how they developed differently and shaped specialization, wages, and income divergence in the two regions. 6Economic Development Policies: Their Role in Economic Divergence chapter abstractRegional economic development is shaped by many policies, which are implemented by national governments, regional and state governments, and local governments. But local economic development policies in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area since 1970 had little to do with the economic divergence of these two regions. In reality, many so-called economic development policies have little to do with economic development as such, instead emphasizing land use changes and competition for sales tax revenue rather than industry and job development. Many of the problems with local planning and development policies in the United States in general are exemplified by the comparison of the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles. 7Beliefs and Worldviews in Economic Development: To Which Club Do We Belong? chapter abstractDominant beliefs—those of political and economic entrepreneurs in a position to make policies—over time result in the accretion of an elaborate structure of institutions that determine economic and political performance. This chapter documents the worldviews and beliefs of regional leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles since 1970. In Los Angeles, leaders never developed a consistent vision of the new economy or the region's role in it; in San Francisco, this vision emerged early in the 1980s and was reinforced over time and diffused throughout the region's leadership institutions. Moreover, San Francisco's leadership institutions are stronger and more interconnected than those of Greater Los Angeles, and its political majorities are more consistent over time, leading to more consistent regional policy agendas. 8Seeing the Landscape: The Relational Infrastructure of Regions chapter abstractNetworks of people and organizations create "invisible colleges" in labor markets, industries, communities, and political leadership. They influence who gets access to other people and hence to implementing ideas and finding resources. This chapter measures the corporate, philanthropic, and leadership networks of the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles since 1980. It shows that they had similar starting points in terms of their structure of connections, but that they diverged. Principal firms and industries in Los Angeles became less connected, while in San Francisco they become more closely intertied, with broader and deeper connections among their boards of directors. Networks among scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and firms are much denser in San Francisco than in Greater Los Angeles. There are more industry-building dealmakers in the Bay Area than in Los Angeles. The relational infrastructures of the two regions have become more and more different over time. 9Connecting the Dots: What Caused Divergence? chapter abstractThe sources of economic divergence lie in their divergent levels and types of economic specialization. Specialization is caused by many forces, including lucky breakthroughs in technology, particular powerful individuals, decisions of key firms at critical turning points, and lock-in effects from initial advantages. Most of these forces cannot be predicted or created. But they must find fertile ground, and this ground is prepared by the ability of the regional economy's firms, leaders, and workers to create and absorb the organizational change that is key to new, high-wage industries. Los Angeles and San Francisco are a striking contrast in these abilities, with Los Angeles's firms and leaders persistently returning to Old Economy organizational forms and San Francisco's firms and leaders consistently inventing the organizational forms of the New Economy that become models for the American and world economies as a whole. 10Shaping Economic Development: Policies and Strategies chapter abstractHigh-wage specialization comes from a complex sequence involving entrepreneurship, encouragement by local robust actors or leaders, breakthrough innovations, new organizational practices, the emergence of supportive overall relational infrastructure and networks, the proliferation of new specialized brokers and dealmakers, the diffusion of conventions or rules of thumb for doing business in new ways, and ultimately the consolidation of major firms. What is common to all processes of successful respecialization of a region's economy is the emergence of the right kinds of networks, organizational practices, worldviews, and beliefs for the region's evolving economic specializations. It is crucial to align understandings and change expectations so as to change policy agendas and to open up new forms of private action. When regional conversations are outdated, the process of organizational adjustment is stymied, as it has been in Los Angeles for 40 years. Old conversations must not crowd out new ones. 11Improving Analysis of Urban Regions: Methods and Models chapter abstractThe chapter assesses the contributions of regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and the institutional approaches found in economics, sociology, and political science to the analysis of urban economic development. The concept of development clubs should guide empirical identification of city-regions that are in different structural categories and their different constraints and opportunities. Each theory has additional empirical and methodological gaps that can be improved on. If this is done, then the field of comparative regional economic analysis will be able to offer more robust insights into economic development.

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Book SynopsisExamines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with municipalities and other local governments inherited from the urban past. Shadow governments take many forms, ranging from billion-dollar special authorities that span entire urban regions, to public–private partnerships and special districts created to accomplish particular tasks, to privatized gated communities, to neighborhood organizations empowered to receive private and public funds. They finance and administer public services ranging from the prosaic (garbage collection and water utilities) to the transformative (economic development and infrastructure). Private Metropolis demonstrates that this complex ecosystem of local governance has compromised and even eclipsed democratic processes by moving important policy decisions out of public sight. The quasi-public institutions of urban governance generally escape the budgetary and statutory restraints imposed on traditional local governments and protect policy decisions from the limitations and vagaries of electoral politics. Moving major policy decisions into a privatized and corporatized realm facilitates efficiency and speed, but at the cost of democratic oversight. Increasingly, the urban electorate is left debating symbolic issues only tangentially connected to the actual distribution of the resources that affect people’s lives. The essays in Private Metropolis grapple with the difficult and timely questions that arise from this new ecology of governance: What are the consequences of the proliferation of special authorities, privatized governments, and public–private arrangements? Is the trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency worth it? Has the public sector, with its messiness and inefficiencies—but also its checks and balances—ceded too much power to these new institutions? By examining such questions, this book provokes a long-overdue debate about the future of urban governance.Contributors: Douglas Cantor, California State U, Long Beach; Ellen Dannin, Pennsylvania State U; Jameson W. Doig, Princeton U; Mary Donoghue; Peter Eisinger, New School; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Rebecca Hendrick, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sara Hinkley, U of California, Berkeley; Amanda Kass, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; James M. Smith, U of Indiana South Bend; Shu Wang, Michigan State U; Rachel Weber, U of Illinois at Chicago.Trade Review "A valuable resource in graduate courses in urban politics and policy."—Journal of Urban Affairs Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Shadow Governments and the Remaking of the American Local StateDennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba AlexanderPart I. The Eclipse of the (Municipal) State1. City Building Capacity and Special-Purpose Authorities: Institutions, Interests, and the Local StateJames M. Smith2. Phantom Governments: Multiple Function Special Districts as Substitutes for MunicipalitiesEvan McKenzie3. Governing Detroit: The Withering of the (Municipal) StatePeter EisingerPart II. The Evolving Role of Public-Private Authorities4. Transportation Empires in the New York and Los Angeles Regions: From the Old to the New Politics of Governance and DevelopmentSteven P. Erie, Scott MacKenzie, and Jameson W. Doig5. Whetting Their Appetites: Privatization Schemes and the Case of WaterEllen Dannin and Douglas Cantor6. The Role of the State in Public-Private Initiatives: Lessons from Great BritainAlba AlexanderPart III. The Fiscal Politics of the New American Local State7. Financing Urban Infrastructure (and Services) under the New Normal: A Look at Special AssessmentsShu Wang and Rebecca Hendrick8. Devolution and Debt: Financing Public Facilities in an Age of AusterityRachel Weber, Amanda Kass, and Sara HinkleyPart IV. Bringing the (Public) State Back In9. Building the Public City, PrivatelyDavid Perry and Mary Donoghue10. The Fate of the Public Realm: ConclusionsDennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba Alexander ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFor many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing economists – and stimulated by working with governments across the world - this wide-ranging book sets out clear theoretical and empirical frameworks to tackle one of today’s most important socio-economic issues. Housing unaffordability arises from complex forces and a prerequisite to effective policy is understanding the causes of rising house prices and rents and the interactions between housing, housing finance and the macroeconomy. The authors challenge many of the conventional wisdoms in housing policy and offer innovative recommendations to improve affordability.Table of ContentsCrisis, What Crisis? Is Housing Really Unaffordable? What Factors Determine Changes in House Prices and Rents? Influences on Household Formation and Tenure Rental Affordability What Determines the Number of New Homes Built? Housing Demand, Financial Markets and Taxation Housing, Affordability and the Macroeconomy Planning and the Assessment of Housing Need and Demand Raising the Level of Provate Housing Construction Subsidizing the Supply of Rental Housing Subsidizing the Housing Costs of Lower-Income Tenants Increasing Home Ownership Where Do We Go from Here?

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Book SynopsisSupported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading experts to provide insights from multiple viewpoints across the sciences, arts and humanities. Together, they examine key travel motivations, including the importance of travel for human wellbeing, and how these can be reconciled with challenges such as reducing our carbon footprint, adapting new mobility technologies, and improving the quality of our journeys. The book shows how our travel choices are shaped by a wide range of social, physical, psychological and cultural factors, which have profound implications for the design of future transport policies. Offering thought-provoking and practical new perspectives, this fascinating book will be essential for all those who have ever wondered why we travel and how it relates to our fundamental needs.Table of ContentsForeword by Tony Wheeler, co-founder, Lonely Planet 1. Why Travel? An Introduction – Matthew Niblett and Kris Beuret Part I: Fundamental Motivations 2. Biological Perspectives on Travel – Charles Pasternak 3. Travel and The Mind – Tony Hiss 4. Philosophy and Travel: The Meaning of Movement – Matthew Niblett 5. The Economics of Travel: It’s Not the Destination, It’sthe Journey – Matthew Dillon and Alexander Jan PART II: Travel for Exploration and Knowing Ourselves 6. Why Travel? The Sociological Perspective – Kris Beuret and Roger Hall 7. Religious and Spiritual Travel – Alison Kuznets 8. Travel in Art and Literature – Alison Kuznets and Matthew Niblett 9. Why People Travel: An Anthropological View – Tom Selwyn 10. Tourist Travel – Hazel Andrews 11. Travel as Exploration: Science, the Unknown, and Personal Discovery – Emily Thomas Part III: Limits and New Horizons 12. Technology and Travel – Glenn Lyons 13. Placemaking and Travel: The City Is Where the People Choose to Go – Deborah Saunt and Tom Greenall 14. Travel’s Place in the Environment – Terry Hill 15. Conclusion: What Have We Learnt? – Kris Beuret and Matthew Niblett

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Book SynopsisSupported by the Independent Transport Commission (ITC): a registered charity Why travel? What motivations underpin the journeys we make? And how can we make decisions that improve our travel experiences? Arguing that the desire to move is a purpose in itself, this book brings together leading experts to provide insights from multiple viewpoints across the sciences, arts and humanities. Together, they examine key travel motivations, including the importance of travel for human wellbeing, and how these can be reconciled with challenges such as reducing our carbon footprint, adapting new mobility technologies, and improving the quality of our journeys. The book shows how our travel choices are shaped by a wide range of social, physical, psychological and cultural factors, which have profound implications for the design of future transport policies. Offering thought-provoking and practical new perspectives, this fascinating book will be essential for all those who have ever wondered why we travel and how it relates to our fundamental needs.Table of ContentsForeword by Tony Wheeler, co-founder, Lonely Planet 1. Why Travel? An Introduction – Matthew Niblett and Kris Beuret Part I: Fundamental Motivations 2. Biological Perspectives on Travel – Charles Pasternak 3. Travel and The Mind – Tony Hiss 4. Philosophy and Travel: The Meaning of Movement – Matthew Niblett 5. The Economics of Travel: It’s Not the Destination, It’sthe Journey – Matthew Dillon and Alexander Jan PART II: Travel for Exploration and Knowing Ourselves 6. Why Travel? The Sociological Perspective – Kris Beuret and Roger Hall 7. Religious and Spiritual Travel – Alison Kuznets 8. Travel in Art and Literature – Alison Kuznets and Matthew Niblett 9. Why People Travel: An Anthropological View – Tom Selwyn 10. Tourist Travel – Hazel Andrews 11. Travel as Exploration: Science, the Unknown, and Personal Discovery – Emily Thomas Part III: Limits and New Horizons 12. Technology and Travel – Glenn Lyons 13. Placemaking and Travel: The City Is Where the People Choose to Go – Deborah Saunt and Tom Greenall 14. Travel’s Place in the Environment – Terry Hill 15. Conclusion: What Have We Learnt? – Kris Beuret and Matthew Niblett

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Book SynopsisFeeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues – yet there’s no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing global heating present unparalleled opportunities to re-work the countryside for the benefit of all. Incorporating personal, inspiring stories of people and places, Peter Hetherington sets out the innovative measures needed for nature’s recovery while protecting our most valuable farmland, encouraging local food production and ‘re-peopling’ remote areas. In the first book to tackle these issues holistically, he argues that we need to re-shape the countryside with an adventurous new agenda at the heart of government.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Going Local Land of Promise Learning From History Small Is Beautiful: The New Revolutionaries Feeding Britain The Hills Were Alive The Climate Challenge: Land Versus Water Re-Wilding: Rich Persons’ Plaything or Real Hope for People? Communities Renewed or Housing Denied Land Renewing: Reworking for All

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Book SynopsisFeeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues – yet there’s no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing global heating present unparalleled opportunities to re-work the countryside for the benefit of all. Incorporating personal, inspiring stories of people and places, Peter Hetherington sets out the innovative measures needed for nature’s recovery while protecting our most valuable farmland, encouraging local food production and ‘re-peopling’ remote areas. In the first book to tackle these issues holistically, he argues that we need to re-shape the countryside with an adventurous new agenda at the heart of government.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Going Local Land of Promise Learning From History Small Is Beautiful: The New Revolutionaries Feeding Britain The Hills Were Alive The Climate Challenge: Land Versus Water Re-Wilding: Rich Persons’ Plaything or Real Hope for People? Communities Renewed or Housing Denied Land Renewing: Reworking for All

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