Urban and municipal planning and policy Books

Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share at Elgaronline.Centralizing the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks.Discussing key barriers and sharing evidence-based best practices to flood risk management, international contributors involved in the LAND4FLOOD EU COST Action initiative (CA16209) seek transferrable solutions to the implementation challenges of nature-based solutions. Introducing the concept of spatial flood risk management, the multi-national teams of authors consider the notion of land through three analytical lenses: as a biophysical system, a socio-economic resource, and a solution to flood-risk management. Advocating for a more comprehensive approach, the book explores options of where and how to store water within catchments, including decentralized water retention in the hinterland, flood storage along rivers, and planned flooding in resilient cities.Bringing together the existing knowledge on the relation between flood risk management and land with an international and interdisciplinary scope, this book will prove invaluable to academics, policy makers and public authorities involved in flood risk management, urban planners, and governing environmental bodies.Trade Review‘In a world where climatic variability is expected to deluge various regions of the world, the link between land use and water management will become even more evident. Hence, this book is a very timely and welcomed compilation of articles exploring nature-based solutions for flood risk management on privately-owned lands. It fills a large gap in the literature and is certainly a major contribution to the field.’ -- Gabriel Eckstein, Texas A&M University and Immediate past-President of The International Water Resources Association, US‘Global climate change will cause more flood damage. The implementation of nature-based water retardation and absorption measures on both private and public land is an essential damage mitigation strategy. This book by leading European flood experts provides a roadmap to the hydrological, economic, geographic, legal and social challenges that the adoption and implementation of effective strategies poses.’ -- A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xii Sally Priest Acknowledgement xiv 1 Introduction to Spatial Flood Risk Management: Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land 1 Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Mark E. Wilkinson PART I WATER RETENTION IN THE HINTERLAND 2 Nature-based solutions for flow reduction in catchment headwaters 13 Mary Bourke, Mark E. Wilkinson and Zorica Srdjevic 3 Legal challenges of restricting land use for natural flood protection in the hinterland 33 Juliane Albrecht and Sofija Nikolić Popadić 4 Implementation of measures in the hinterland: transaction costs and economic instruments 52 Gábor Ungvári and Dennis Collentine PART II FLOOD STORAGE ALONG RIVERS 5 Technical and hydrological effects across scales and thresholds of polders, dams and levees 68 Reinhard Pohl and Nejc Bezak 6 Financial compensation and legal restrictions for using land for flood retention 89 Andras Kis, Arthur Schindelegger and Vesna Zupanc 7 Upstream-downstream schemes and their instruments 106 Thomas Hartmann, Lukas Löschner and Jan Macháč PART III RESILIENT CITIES 8 Individual measures for adaptive cities 120 Christin Rinnert, Thomas Thaler and Robert Jüpner 9 Institutionalizing the resilient city: constraints and opportunities 134 Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir and Barbara Tempels 10 The role of risk transfer and spatial planning for enhancing the flood resilience of cities 148 Paul Hudson and Lenka Slavíková PART IV CONCLUSION 11 Challenges of spatial flood risk management 164 Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Mark E. Wilkinson Index

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Book SynopsisWritten in a comprehensive yet accessible style, Urban Violence, Resilience and Security investigates the diverse nature of urban violence within Latin America, Asia and Africa. It further analyzes how regular and irregular governing mechanisms can provide human security, despite the presence of chronic violence. The empirically rich and conceptually grounded contributions of established and emerging scholars evaluate the current state and future trajectory of urban development. They also question common explanations of the drivers of violence in urban areas and also provide measured recommendations for improved policy and future governance. Chapters thoroughly examine the opportunities and hazards of focusing on resilience as the only method to improve security and identify governance and policy practices that can move beyond the rhetoric of resilience to evaluate diverse approaches to attaining human security in urban areas of the Global South.This invigorating book will be an excellent resource for academic researchers interested in urban dynamics in the Global South as well as scholars embarking on geography, human security, political science and policy studies. Based on a set of original case studies, policymakers will also benefit from the questions and challenges to the conventional approaches to urban planning and governance that it raises.Trade Review‘Urban Violence, Resilience and Security provides a unique intervention in the study of urban violence in the Global South. Challenging conventional accounts of urban violence modeled after cities in the Global North, contributors provide theoretically sophisticated and empirically-grounded case studies to highlight the myriad and geographically contingent forms of resilience and resistance. A must-read for scholars concerned with the urban condition of life and death in the Global South.’ -- James Tyner, Kent State University, Ohio, US‘Urbanization is one of the most significant mega-trends of the modern era. It is also one of the most profoundly misunderstood. This knowledge gap is explored by Michael Glass, Taylor Seybolt and Phil Williams who examine the multiple causes, consequences and characteristics of global urban transformation. In their sweeping edited volume, contributors reflect on how the history, politics and economics of urbanization influences (and is influenced by) urban violence. A series of vivid case studies of under-studied cities from Africa, Asia and the Americas also reveal the complex relationships between urbanization, insecurity and resilience.’ -- Robert Muggah, co-founder of the Igarape Institute and SecDev Group, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xi Ariel C. Armony Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introduction to Urban Violence, Resilience and Security 1 Michael R. Glass, Taylor B. Seybolt and Phil Williams PART I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES TO URBAN VIOLENCE, RESILIENCE AND SECURITY 2 Urban violence in the Global South: drug traffickers, gangs, and organized crime 21 Phil Williams 3 Urban resilience for the 21st century 39 Savannah Cox 4 Urban governance in conflict zones: contentious politics, not “resilience” 53 Daniel E. Esser 5 Building effective and acceptable security-driven urban resilience 72 Jon Coaffee 6 Fragility and pernicious resilience in urban Latin America and the Caribbean 88 Enrique Desmond Arias PART II DIMENSIONS OF URBAN VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 7 Feral cities and the normative dimension of violence: Caracas and the Latin American city 101 Roberto Briceño-León 8 Xenophobic violence, displacement, and reintegration: a case study of female migrants in Isipingo, Durban, South Africa 120 Kim Gounder and Brij Maharaj 9 Shoot first, ask later: violence and anti-crime policies in Mexico’s Cuidad Juárez and Pakistan’s Karachi 138 Vanda Felbab-Brown 10 Strain between two worlds: a sociological approach to the rise and fall of crime and violence in Guatemala City 160 Daniel Núñez 11 Criminal victimization and social resilience in Latin America 177 Eduardo Moncada Index 193

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Book SynopsisThis unique and insightful work examines the importance of 'quality of life' for the city which has become a key component of urban competitiveness over the past 30 years. It argues that having a high or low 'quality of life' will have important consequences for the vitality and status of any city.Throughout the book, emphasis is placed upon the skilled, highly mobile and generally younger labour force who choose the city in which they want to work and live based on the 'quality of life' elements offered to them. Consequently, there is mounting pressure on today's cities and the firms in their economies to create environments that are attractive to the new-age of the workforce and the key resource in the economy. The book's eight substantive chapters explore this issue by each examining a distinct element that comprises 'quality of life', including the approach of economists to quality of life, links to urban competitiveness, the economy, urban amenities and attributes.Providing an original perspective on contemporary cities and their economies, The City and Quality of Life will be essential reading for city and company leaders who implement policy and wish to further understand the attributes of 'quality of life' for their citizens. It will also be useful for researchers, university professors and students in disciplines such as economics and finance, geography and urban studies.Trade Review‘The City and Quality of Life covers a wide-ranging body of literature and ideas, many of which could be hypotheses suitable for further testing. The book could be useful for those students, academic researchers, and policy makers interested in urban studies and the promise of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world.’ -- Robert W Marans, Journal of Urban Affairs‘The City and Quality of Life marked a significant reorientation of economic research about the quality of life of a city. It reflects Kresl’s outstanding knowledge of urban economics developed throughout a distinguished career. This book speaks to a wide readership in social sciences beyond disciplinary confines, and without doubt provides a stimulus for further critical debate about quality of life in contemporary cities.’ -- Alessandra Michelangeli, Regional Studies'In an era of pandemics and economic turbulence, remote working and learning, and significant shifts in both international and domestic migration patterns, Peter Karl Kresl has provided a timely and at times provocative treatise on cities and the quality of life that they provide in a world undergoing unprecedented urbanization. This very readable text should be required reading for professional planners and many of the people who find themselves navigating on a daily basis both the wondrous joys and vexing challenges of contemporary city life.' -- Earl H. Fry, BYU Emeritus Professor and co-director of the New International Cities Era project'Under the challenge of global and regional economic restructuring, cities have to achieve high quality of life to attract skilled people and companies in the evolving new economy. This book is a systematic study on the concept of quality of life, its impacts on urban economy, and how demographics, urban attributes and amenities affect the quality of life. This is a timely book for urban scholars and city leaders to understand and enhance the quality of life and urban competitiveness.' -- Jianfa Shen, The Chinese University of Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the importance of the quality of urban life 2. Contemporary analysis of quality of life 3. Quality of life and competitiveness 4. Quality of life and the economy 5. Demographics and quality of life 6. Urban attributes and quality of life 7. Urban amenities and quality of life 8. Looking forward Index

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Book SynopsisAddressing the complex interrelationships between city making and the resources needed for its production, Predatory Urbanism explores the link between urbanization and resources in the global South. It particularly focuses on urban megaprojects, highlighting these planned developments and re-developments carried out by the state or state-linked agencies.Engaging with positivist rhetoric on climate change, this timely book investigates the dramatic transformation of rural and urban land in Asia, discussing the main ecological deficits affecting Asian cities. Chapters analyse some of the most paradigmatic megaprojects in the global South and their socio-environmental predatory characteristics. Through exposing the limitations of today’s predatory urbanism in the global South, the book argues for the importance of rethinking the resource-urbanization nexus towards socially and environmentally just urbanism.An invigorating read for urban studies and planning scholars, this will particularly benefit those researching globalization in the global South. It will also aid urban planners reflecting on their practice and looking to improve developments in city making.Trade Review‘A powerful reminder that many urban megaprojects exacerbate social and environmental issues that they pretend to solve or alleviate, inducing unnecessary resource consumption and stimulating segregated developments and displacements. The studies in the book make a powerful case for the need to critically reexamine the neo-liberal urban policies and agendas, suggesting a restraint in the usage of such played-out and abused concepts as smart-, eco-, intelligent and sustainable cities. This thought-provoking book not only presents a critique of the neo-liberal patterns of urban development, but also offers new insights on urban metabolism, the implications of “green planning”, the nature of “instant urbanism”, and the development of solidaristic communities.’Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Alessandro Melis PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Rapid urbanization and greenwashing in Asia PART II THE PROBLEMATIC METABOLISM OF MEGAPROJECTS 2. The rise of megaprojects in Asia 3. The sustainable development rhetoric in Asia 4. From resource consumption to urban metabolism PART III PREDATORY MEGAPROJECTS AND CONCLUSIONS 5. Two cases in Doha: The Pearl and Education City 6. The Straits Megacity Region 7. Mumbai and Bhendi Bazaar urban renewal proposal 8. Conclusion to Predatory Urbanism References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Housing issues have become a defining feature of our time. The capacity to affordably, securely, and sustainably house a growing, urbanizing population has become a pressing issue for policy makers worldwide. A Research Agenda for Housing sets the tone for debates relating to housing, featuring cutting-edge research from leading and emerging scholars. This impressive work seeks to understand the complexity of housing through the lens of its most pertinent debates. Using examples and case studies from around the world, the contributors tackle housing rights, financialization, mortgage markets, public housing, sustainability, and affordability policies, considering housing in its larger societal and historical contexts. With a strong focus on the practical implications of housing research, this diverse book takes a critical approach to housing research, seeking to dissect and understand the nuances of homeownership, renting, liveability and vulnerability in the 21st century. Featuring a broad summary of the state of knowledge of housing, this book is vital reading for both established scholars and graduates of urban studies and planning in need of an overview of the current state of housing research. Public policy makers from across the world will also benefit from the policy implications and recommendations provided by the contributors.Trade Review‘This work clearly illustrates the interconnectedness between global market forces and local housing conditions and is essential reading for housing and planning students and academics wanting a contemporary overview of housing research.’ -- Ruth Lucas, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal‘This is a deceptively small volume packed with a lot of ideas. While I am eager to agree that housing touches all aspects of human societies the challenge of tackling such a broad number of issues over such a variety of geographic regions is formidable. One of Moos’s stated goals is to leave the reader “with a sense of the complexity of housing as a fruitful area for future research” and I think the collection of essays certainly achieves that goal. Public policymakers could benefit from his recommendations on housing rights, financialization and mortgage markets, social or public housing, sustainability, and affordability.’ -- Stephanie Sweeney, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In A Research Agenda for Housing, editor Markus Moos bring together contributors to illustrate and examine the major theoretical, analytical and empirical developments in the housing field, showing housing to be a complex area and an essential priority for public policy. Offering useful analytical tools and evidence-based, interdisciplinary research, this collection will be a key resource for housing researchers.’ -- Valesca Lima, LSE Review'The housing question has come back as a major issue in our so-called advanced economies. High-income households have a vast choice while the traditional middle classes have been losing options at a rapidly growing pace. In A Research Agenda for Housing, Markus Moos brings together a strong group of experts who engage the subject and shows us options that we must pursue if we are to ensure a reasonable housing market for a majority of households. A must read!' --Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, US, author of Expulsions'The contributors to this volume provide an extremely important interdisciplinary perspective to one of the most important social, economic, and public policy questions of our time - how to provide decent shelter to the masses of people who cannot purchase it in the private market. They look at the question through the lens of international comparisons, identifying causes and some approaches to addressing it, bearing in mind that housing is inseparable from general issues of the capitalist political economy.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, author of The Just City'This collection of essays offers a very welcome, creative and novel take on the contemporary housing question. The editor correctly identifies housing as being pivotal to the shaping of the political events and economic vicissitudes of the early 21st-century. A provocative and engaging read with a good mix of established and new scholars.' --Ray Forrest, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Housing Today Markus Moos PART II HOUSING IN THE 21ST CENTURY 2. The Right to Housing Jessie Hohmann 3. Housing and Financialization Manuel B. Aalbers 4. Affordability and Housing Policy in the World’s Cities: Excavating the Global Housing Bubble Alan Walks 5. Affordable Homeownership and Mortgage Markets in an International Context Piyush Tiwari 6. How Urban Regimes Produce and Manage Informality: Insights from Three Different Cases of Informal Housing Pietro Calogero, Jennifer Day, and Neeraj Dangol PART III HOUSING TRENDS AND POLICIES 7. One Policy, Two Paths: The Development of a Chinese National Housing Policy and its Implementation in Chongqing and Shenzhen Ka Ling Cheung, Jennifer Day, Hao Wu, and Richard Tomlinson 8. Social Mix and the Death of Public Housing Martine August 9. Housing Vulnerable Populations in Australia and Beyond Debbie Faulkner, Selina Tually, and Victoria Cornell 10. Sustainable Housing Sarah Godfrey, Jennifer Dean, and Kristen Regier 11. The Regional and Local Dynamics of Life Course and Housing Rik Damhuis, Wouter van Gent, Cody Hochstenbach, and Sako Musterd PART IV HOUSING FUTURES 12. What’s Livable? Comparing Concepts and Metrics for Housing and Livability Nathanael Lauster 13. Sharing Housing: Is There an App for That? Jake Wegmann 14. Innovations in Affordability Policies Nicole Gurran Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Offering a new theoretical framework for understanding gentrification and displacement, this timely Research Agenda focuses on resistance as the central research area in this subject field.Arguing that the future of gentrification research should focus on accomplishing the end of gentrification, chapters provide practical organizing and policy strategies using international case studies which are rooted in community-based research.Encouraging researchers to find inspiration in new methods, sites and questions for exploring resistance, this Research Agenda seeks to empower communities and cities to reclaim urban life and city space for people by examining key issues such as housing insecurity and lived reality versus policy and practice.Graduate students and researchers of geography, urban planning and urban sociology will find the use of case studies informative and thought-provoking. The suggested practical strategies will also be beneficial for urban planners and policymakers to fight displacement and slow gentrification.Trade Review‘This remarkable and eminently readable Research Agenda brings into view pragmatic and diverse strategies for stemming gentrification. In emphasizing little-understood frontiers of gentrification activism, including radical forms of counter-cartography, the queering of housing politics, and state-mandated rent regulation and affordable housing, this book is an invaluable—and hopeful—contribution to global gentrification scholarship.’ -- Malini Ranganathan, American University, USRecognising gentrification is ultimately a process that displaces the poor and marginal. This Research Agenda argues that it is not enough to simply diagnose the geographies of gentrification, but that we need to prescribe solutions. Showing that grounded knowledge of gentrification’s intersection with class, race and sexuality can help inform strategies of resistance, this is an internationally-relevant book which flags exciting new directions in gentrification scholarship and activism.’ -- Philip Hubbard, King's College, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Gentrification 1 Winifred Curran and Leslie Kern PART I ORGANIZING AROUND THE UNDEREXPLORED IN GENTRIFICATION RESEARCH 2 A queer theory of housing politics: on gentrification and chrononormativity 17 Emma Spruce 3 Social reproduction in the gentrified city: resisting displacement in marketized Toronto 39 Sophie O’Manique and Sinéad Petrasek 4 Taking race seriously in gentrification research 63 Steven Tuttle and Alfredo Huante 5 Uncovering invisibilities in gentrification processes 81 Colleen Hammelman PART II EVERYDAY RESISTANCE: FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE TO POLICY AND PRACTICE 6 Moving beyond gentrification: regenerative mapping for geographies of radical resilience 103 Elizabeth Walsh, Evon Lopez, Jeremy Auerbach, Cara Marie DiEnno, Yessica Xytlalli Holguín, Adriana Lopez, Carrie Makarewicz, Solange Muñoz, Jessica Villena Sanchez and Dani Slabaugh 7 Never not organizing: long resistance and the fight against gentrification in Pilsen, Chicago 129 Winifred Curran and Euan Hague 8 Housing insecurity, lived reality, and the right to stay put in a gentrified southern European neighborhood: the case of Sant Antoni in Barcelona 151 Antonio López-Gay, Miguel Solana-Solana, Joan Sales-Favà, Helen V.S. Cole and Anna Ortiz-Guitart 9 Agents of change or maintenance women? Networks of control among women in a resettlement colony for former basti dwellers 173 Ramya Ramanath 10 Community development corporations collectivize to stay in place: lessons from Chicago’s Northwest Side 191 Ivis García 11 City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development’s Understanding of and Approach to Displacement 211 City of Seattle OPCD Staff (Brennon Staley, Nicolas Welch, David Goldberg, Patrice Thomas, Katie Sheehy, Dakota Murray, Rico Quirindongo, and Lauren Flemister) Index 231

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Book SynopsisExploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban management are shifting, indicating that urban governance is becoming increasingly important in dealing with wicked issues, like climate change and social and economic inequalities in cities.Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies offers rich international examples looking at housing, public space, water, climate change, the environment and economic development. Chapters showcase the changing role of urban professionals, with a particular focus on the dynamic social, cultural and economic transformations of cities in emerging economies. Exploring contemporary approaches to urban governance, contributors draw attention to the prevalence of smart cities, new forms of partnerships and just transitions in a changing urban landscape.Researchers and students of urban development, planning, management and governance will appreciate the multiple theoretical angles and the key case studies used throughout the book. The examples and theories will be helpful for urban leaders, strategists and advocates working in emerging economies.Trade Review’The authors argue that cities in emerging economies can increase their sustainable competitiveness by replacing their traditional system of urban planning and management with a modern system of urban governance. This is a must-read for those interested to understand how cities in emerging economies can cope with societal dynamics.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Urban paradigm shifts in emerging economies 1 Jan Fransen, Meine Pieter van Dijk and Jurian Edelenbos 2 Urban management in practice, issues at stake and overview of the book 20 Meine Pieter van Dijk 3 Managing a just transition in urban contexts 40 Darren McCauley 4 Structural change, labour markets and urban economic policy in emerging economies 57 Frank van Oort, Paula Nagler and Indriany Lionggo 5 Smart city for comprehensive urban management: concepts, impacts, and the South Korean experience 80 Yirang Lim 6 How sustainable, green and smart eco-cities deal with water issues 99 Meine Pieter van Dijk 7 Urban commons in emerging economies 117 Rudina Toto, Marija Ćaćić, Zvezdina Ivanova, Peter Nientied and Katarzyna Stachowiak-Bongwa 8 Knowledge and skill transfer in Addis-Ababa’s light-rail transport 142 Taslim Adebowale Alade and Alberto Gianoli 9 Financing urban infrastructure and services in Africa 162 Aloysius N. Bongwa and Meine Pieter van Dijk 10 Collaborative capacity of public–private partnerships in housing projects: case studies from Nigeria 186 Daniel Adamu and Alberto Gianoli 11 Planning for all? Guiding principles for selecting multi-stakeholder tools in urban planning processes 204 Els Keunen and Saskia Ruijsink 12 Conclusions: new insights in urban planning, management and governance in emerging economies 225 Jan Fransen Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book defines the concept of immured spaces across time, space and culture and investigates various categories of restricted places such as divided, segregated and protected spaces. Drawing on examples from across the world, this book analyses not only what separates and divides space, but also the wide variety of impacts that the imposition of new barriers and boundaries or the opening of existing ones has on places, people and surrounding areas. Contributors integrate case studies with theoretical analysis to draw conclusions and advance an analytical framework of immured spaces. The chapters present a point of reference to highlight areas of significance and also to encourage further detailed work in this important area.The book has a strong research dimension and will therefore be of interest to academic communities in planning, cultural heritage, psychology, architecture and urban studies. In addition, the use of case studies to develop a common framework will appeal to practitioners and policy makers.Trade Review‘In Boundaries and Restricted Places, Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis present a sometimes disquieting, sometimes inspiring collection of case studies on immured spaces. From the Old Jewish cemetery in Wrocław, gated communities in Brazil, or the forbidden part of Piraeus, the journey continues to borders in Ireland or Beirut, Nicosia or Indian slums. Scholars of border studies, geography, or spatial planning and architecture will cherish this rich contribution to a better understanding of enclosure and exclusion.’ -- Ben Davy, Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa‘Sometimes a testament to nationalism, racism, exclusivity, insecurity, or xenophobia, immured spaces and their material representations – walls, borders, gates, and boundaries – have always been an attribute of the urban. This collection of essays expands our notion of immured spaces and pushes us to rethink them through its rich account of material and immaterial, real and perceived spaces for the living and for the dead from different cities around the globe.’ -- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, University of California, Los Angeles, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to Boundaries and Restricted Places: The Immured Space 1 Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis PART I DIVIDED SPACES 2 The immured against the divided: the case of the walled city Nicosia 12 Balkiz Yapicioglu and Kenan Güven. 3 Navigating through invisible barriers: the evolution of immured Beirut 23 Christine Mady 4 How a long-lasting political crisis and political ambitions create damage to society – the case of the Vistula Spit area 37 Anna Brzezińska-Rawa 5 Borders in Ireland 2021: from immured places to integration to divergence? 49 Brendan Williams 6 Divided architectures: hidden infrastructures of separation and cohesion 64 David Coyles and Clare Mulholland PART II SEGREGATED SPACES 7 The ‘gate’ in Pomakochoria, Greece: memories of underdevelopment? 80 Konstantinos Lalenis 8 The present in the future: segregation and boundaries in the urban science fiction film 96 Marko Kiessel and Jonathan Stubbs 9 Unpacking immured spaces from statutory property rights in Australian strata and Indian slum land rights 111 Rebecca Leshinsky, Pranab R. Choudhury and Serene Ho 10 Investigating how abandoned and derelict cultural heritage can evolve into informal public space 126 Aliye Menteş and Cem Yardımcı 11 Poetic prostitution or female bondage? Troumpa quarter in Piraeus and Tabakika in the city of Larissa 140 Konstantinos Moraitis and Maria Markatou PART III PROTECTED SPACES 12 The gated communities and their socio-spatial configurations in the metropolitan region of Curitiba, Brazil 154 Eliana do Pilar Rocha and Carlos Smaniotto Costa 13 The Leviathan of the South: awakening the public-use of green areas in private condominiums? Emerging practices in São Paulo, Brazil 168 Safira De La Sala and Everaldo Augusto Cambler 14 Immured spaces: narratives of policy instruments. Coastal spaces along the southern part of the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran 184 Maedeh Hedayatifard 15 Opening up of gated communities: a reality of a mirage? 198 Yung Yau PART IV SPACES BEYOND 16 Boundaries in the city between the living and the dead 211 Yannis Polymenidis 17 Hidden space 224 Rena Karanouh 18 Spaces beyond borders: art on and within the walls of the immured neighbourhood of Surlariçi in Nicosia 239 Alev Adil 19 Nobody’s or everybody’s place? The Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw – the story of destruction and protection 250 Magdalena Belof 20 Opening the barrier of military immured spaces in Italy: is their regeneration going beyond the threshold of boundaries? 263 Federico Camerin PART V CONNECTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE IMMURED SPACE 21 Conclusion: connecting the diversity of the immured space 278 Konstantinos Lalenis and Balkiz Yapicioglu Index

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Book SynopsisTaking a critical perspective, this book rethinks public space in the context of contemporary global health and economic crises, as well as technological, political and cultural change. In order to do so, Ali Madanipour brings together two often unrelated discourses: public space and social inclusion, interrogating the potential for public spaces to contribute to inclusive social practices.Organized in two parts, the book first highlights various common meanings and philosophical concepts of public space, examining them in their constitution and application. Madanipour runs these concepts past the test of social practice, through the economic, political and cultural dimensions of social exclusion and inclusion. Chapters further analyse public space in its different forms: physical, institutional and technological, offering a wide-ranging and thought-provoking take on the concept.Timely and innovative, this book will be an invigorating read for urban studies, planning and human geography scholars, particularly those focusing on public space, social inclusion and urban processes.Trade Review‘The COVID-19 pandemic, social movements and communications technologies have reshaped the nature of public urban space and public life. In this extraordinarily erudite examination, Professor Madanipour draws together the observations of philosophers and researchers on the meaning of public space and of accessibility to it. He does so in a manner highly informative for anyone interested in civic life, present and future.’ -- Jon Lang, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1. Public space: the case for rethinking PART I CONCEPTS OF PUBLIC SPACE 2. Similarities and differences 3. Space: embodied, embedded, and unfolding 4. Public: totality, authority, and openness 5. Between generality, particularity, and singularity PART II PUBLIC SPACE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION 6. Public space as resource 7. Public space as power 8. Public space as experience 9. Conclusion: public space as inclusive space References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the social implications of dense and compact cities, this enlightening book looks at micro-scale segregation through several lenses. These include the ways that the housing market constantly reconfigures social mix, how the structure of the housing stock shapes it, and the ways that policies are deployed to manage these effects. Taking a deep dive into micro-segregation in the socially mixed and dense centres of compact cities, the authors investigate the form and content of social and ethno-racial hierarchies at the micro-scale of different cities around the world and the ways these have evolved over time. Vertical Cities considers the ways the materiality of such hierarchies affects the reproduction of social inequalities in today’s large cities. Academics and researchers of urban sociology, housing, urban regeneration, urban studies and urban geography will find the original approach taken to this under-researched topic to be a vital resource. Practitioners and policy makers will find the innovative use of a common theoretical frame to analyse micro-scale social mix in vertical/compact cities informative when dealing with the management of neighbourhoods in inner cities.Trade Review‘When most people think about urban segregation they think about different residential areas of cities. But, as the contributors to this wide ranging and comprehensive volume convincingly show, urban social segregation can take many forms, both horizontal and vertical, and involve a wide range of different groups and housing types at a variety of different scales.’ -- Chris Hamnett, Emeritus Professor, King's College, London, UK‘This book has a highly original focus on micro-segregation, particularly vertical, revealing forms of housing and urban inequalities and hierarchies that are otherwise hidden in socially mixed neighborhoods. Examples from different cities worldwide show how widespread those micro-segregations are, but also how different, in form, in the way they are shaped by historical processes and market dynamics, and in the local social configurations they create.’ -- Edmond Préteceille, Sciences Po CNRS Paris, France‘Contributors document the many forms of spatial separation that structure residents’ daily lives but that are invisible to the administrative census data that urbanists usually rely on to measure segregation. Studies of cities around the world included here focus especially on differences in class or racial/ethnic composition between lower and upper floors of multistory buildings. They call into question the spatial scale of urban phenomena – neighborhoods, neighboring, and urban inequality – that are too often taken for granted in empirical research.’ -- John R. Logan, Brown University, Rhode Island, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: the cities in the city xv Prodromos Tsiavos Preface xviii 1 Introduction to Vertical Cities: urban micro-segregation, housing markets and social reproduction 1 Thomas Maloutas and Nikos Karadimitriou PART I HIERARCHIES IN NEGOTIATED SOCIAL MIX 2 Constantly evoked but under-researched: the conundrum of vertical stratification in Naples 23 Nick Dines and Cristina Mattiucci 3 Flat by flat: producing micro-scale social differentiation in an arrival neighbourhood of Marseille 39 Apolline Meyer and Thomas Pfirsch 4 Micro-housing, vertical marginalization and “normalcy”: negotiating inclusion arrangements in the interstices of residential apartment buildings in Beirut 57 Jihad Farah and Salah el-dinn Sadeck 5 Micro-segregation and coexistence in Athens: the debate on segregation and its implications for urban research 73 Ifigeneia Dimitrakou, Dimitris Balampanidis, Nikolina Myofa, Iris Polyzou, Dimitra Siatitsa, Stavros Spyrellis and Kostas Vakalopoulos 6 Measuring and mapping vertical segregation in Athens 88 Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Spyrellis and Nikos Karadimitriou PART II SPATIAL PATTERNS OF ETHNIC PROXIMITY 7 Co-location of different population categories. Micro-level segregation dynamics: the case of Amsterdam 99 Rinus Deurloo, Sako Musterd, Bart Sleutjes and Jeroen Slot 8 Social mix and vertical segregation in Madrid 116 Jesús Leal and Daniel Sorando 9 Vertical micro-segregation in a middle-sized Mediterranean city: a case study in Málaga, Spain 129 Juan José Natera-Rivas, Remedios Larrubia-Vargas and Susana Navarro-Rodríguez PART III HIERARCHICAL PROXIMITY IN SEGMENTED HOUSING MARKETS 10 Vertical segregation of rural migrants in urban China: a case study of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou 139 Sainan Lin and Zhigang Li 11 Micro-segregation in Rio de Janeiro 154 Vinicius M. Netto, Camila Carvalho, Maria Fiszon and Yasmin Couto PART IV SOCIAL MIX IN RECOMMODIFIED STATE SOCIALIST CITIES 12 Vertical separation in high-rise apartment buildings: evidence from Bucharest and Budapest under state socialism 173 Szymon Marcińczak and Daniel Baldwin Hess 13 Vertical micro-segregation in apartment buildings in Budapest 189 Zoltán Kovács, Judit Székely and Balázs Szabó 14 Patterns of small-scale residential segregation in the centre of Belgrade 204 Ivan Ratkaj, Aljoša Budović and Nikola Jocić 15 Gentrification as a micro-segregation phenomenon: social and spatial layers of Tallinn inner city 220 Kadri Leetmaa, Elina Maarja Suitso, Kadi Kalm, Ingmar Pastak and Tiit Tammaru PART V PROXIMITY IN GENTRIFIED URBAN SPACES 16 Beyond the concept of spatial segregation: analytical weakness, perverse policies, and evidence from Mexico City 240 Eftychia Bournazou 17 Compulsory social mix, micro-scale segregation and gentrification: the case of Gan HaHashmal neighbourhood, Tel Aviv 255 Tal Shamur and Haim Yacobi 18 Planning vertical differentiation? Geodesign workshop in the case study area of Neve-Sha’anan neighbourhood in Tel Aviv 272 Shlomit Flint Ashery and Rinat Steinlauf Millo PART VI HIERARCHIES IN HOUSING TOWERS 19 Micro-segregation in Seoul, the capital city of the “Republic of Apartments” 285 Yu-Min Joo 20 Wealth-based micro-segregation in Hong Kong: social distance within spatial proximity 300 Hang Kei Ho and Maurice Yip 21 Perceived pull and push forces in high-rise developing neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile 314 Ernesto López-Morales and Ignacio Arce 22 The commodification of height: vertical price differentiation in Vienna’s condominium towers 333 Walter Matznetter and Robert Musil Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Forward-looking and innovative, Elgar Research Agendas are an essential resource for PhD students, scholars and anybody who wants to be at the forefront of research.Exploring current debates on the topic, this book maps out an agenda for theory, research and practice about the role and function of small and medium-sized towns in various contexts and at different territorial scales. Chapters highlight new insights and approaches to studying small and medium-sized towns, moving beyond the ‘urban bias’ to provide nuanced thought on these spaces both in terms of their relation to larger cities, and in terms of implications related to their size.Contributions from top scholars in the field across a number of disciplines cover a broad range of relevant areas of study, including: socio-spatial identities, urbanization, suburbanization, resilience, innovation, entrepreneurship, industrial and tourism development and digitalization. The book concludes with an outline of the road ahead and a call for further theorizing.Urban planning and human geography scholars will find this to be an invigorating read with contributions from scholars across urban planning, economic geography, tourism and public policy providing a holistic understanding of the topic.Trade Review‘I’m so excited about this book! Small towns have long been an understudied topic in geography, sociology, economics and other disciplines. This book is an important step forward as it moves beyond the case-study approach to consider broader implications of technology, culture, and sustainability in these places.’ -- Jennifer Mapes, Kent State University, US‘There is considerable life, dynamism, opportunities and much potential to be tapped beyond the big city. But academic scholars have mostly overlooked this potential and ignored the role of towns. Mayer and Lazzeroni redress this wrong and provide the ultimate agenda for researching small and medium-sized towns.’ -- Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, London School of Economics, UK‘This volume shows that while big cities often steal the limelight – either because of their national economic importance or the intensity of their social, economic and environmental problems – small and medium-sized towns are an important dimension of urbanization, with significant implications for economic development, quality of life, sustainability, and environmental quality.’ -- Paul Knox, Virginia Tech, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Small and Medium-Sized Towns 1 Heike Mayer and Michela Lazzeroni 2 Between urban and rural: socio-spatial identities in small and medium-sized towns 9 Annett Steinführer 3 Small and medium-sized towns: out of the dark agglomeration shadows and into the bright city lights? 23 Evert Meijers and Martijn Burger 4 Urbanisation, suburbanisation and territorial development: research issues for small and medium-sized towns 39 Christophe Demazière 5 The resilience of small and medium-sized towns in times of crisis and recovery 57 Michela Lazzeroni 6 Innovation and entrepreneurship in small and medium-sized towns 73 Heike Mayer 7 (Re)discovering the small and medium-sized industrial town and its development potential 87 David Bole 8 Cultural tourism as a tool for transformation in small and medium-sized towns 105 Chiara Rabbiosi and Dimitri Ioannides 9 Digital and smart places: ensuring a rural fit in times of urban-biased technological push 125 Koen Salemink 10 The important role of nature in planning for small cities 141 Timothy Beatley 11 Public policy and small and medium-sized towns 161 David Kaufmann and Stefan Wittwer 12 Agents of change in small and medium-sized towns 177 Arnault Morisson 13 The road ahead: advancing our research agenda for small and medium-sized towns in a world of uneven development 193 Heike Mayer and Michela Lazzeroni Index

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines the future of semiotic research in the study of urban spaces, with chapters authored by leading scholars in the field. It offers thought-provoking explanations of semiotic theory, methodology and applications with the goal of exploring recently developed approaches to the interpretive aspects of urban space.Capturing the advances in research techniques within the field, this book will introduce the reader to key contemporary debates within the study of urban spaces. Chapters focus on the important topics of meaning-making and interpretation within cities. State-of-the-art approaches are presented to provide an enlightening outlook into this ever-evolving subject area.Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space will be a valuable resource for both undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of semiotics and urban studies, alongside those in disciplines such as visual studies and human geography. Researchers in these fields will find the cutting-edge research within this book to be of great interest.Trade Review‘This is an important, innovative book that provides a toolbox for the study of the city as a semiotic object. Showcasing key contributions by semiotic scholars, the book unveils the different meanings of urban space, from the intentions of city planning to the reinterpretations of real users.’ -- Patrizia Violi, University of Bologna, Italy‘This kaleidoscopic volume consolidates the semiotics of urban space through a collection of outstanding original contributions on educational space, monuments, planning, settlement, boundaries and others. The helmsmanship of the editors has ensured that this will be a landmark volume in the field for many years to come.’ -- Paul Cobley, Middlesex University, UK‘This book enriches our comprehension of cities as complex semiotic objects. In confronting space as a text in which multiple languages interact, the book provides an understanding of urban space and semiotics from post-war seminal thinkers to the present day. The contributions of prominent voices in the field make it an invaluable resource for academics and researchers across various disciplines.’ -- Agustín Cocola-Gant, University of Lisbon, PortugalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Semiotic Approaches to Urban Space 1 Federico Bellentani, Mario Panico and Lia Yoka PART I CONCEPTS 1 The semiotics of settlement space 16 Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos 2 Ten theses for a semiotic study of the city: notes, observations, proposals 32 Gianfranco Marrone 3 Devices for the representation and the spectacularisation of urban space: views, landscapes and logo-monuments 67 Isabella Pezzini 4 Urban landscape as text 82 Olga Lavrenova 5 The complexity of cities and the semiotic gaze: keeping the ‘thickness’ of urban spaces 98 Francesco Mazzucchelli PART II MODELS 6 Semiotic models of settlement space 111 Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos 7 Dynamics of madrasa learning institutions in the Ayyubid and Mamluk capital cities 137 Manar Hammad 8 Mental models of urban space and their semiotic means 157 Leonid Tchertov 9 Reworking boundaries: from gates to the architecture of openness 174 Charikleia Pantelidou 10 Semiotic space for native biota in the city 192 Riin Magnus, Tiit Remm and Kalevi Kull PART III ACTIVATIONS 11 Envisaging the city: roadmap for an interdisciplinary study of urban ‘facescapes’ 209 Massimo Leone 12 Spatial practices: convergences and dialogues between semiotics and urban planning 220 Pierluigi Cervelli 13 Resemiotisation of urban landscapes: relational geographies and signification processes in post-socialist cities 230 Mariusz Czepczyński 14 When schools intersect the everyday world of the city: educational space as a dialogical-transformative quality of the urban 244 Kyriaki Tsoukala 15 Urban activated public spaces in the contemporary city 257 Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou 16 Metropoesis: semiotics, fictional cities and speculative urban design 266 Mattia Thibault, Vincenzo Idone Cassone and Gabriele Ferri Index 289

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community. Covering both classic and novel planning theories, this Encyclopedia adopts an evolutionary perspective, reflecting on the changing meanings of terms over time. Featuring over 140 contributions drawn from diverse fields, it highlights the cross-disciplinary nature of planning and design. Contributors give practical insight into the field, and advance scientific knowledge and public conversation on planning and design.The Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design will be an essential resource for students and scholars of planning, design, urban studies and governance. It will also be highly useful for practitioners and civil servants seeking to deepen their understanding of public works, planning and environmental policy.Key Features: Critical perspectives on core concepts and debates Reflection on how to avoid reproducing current power/knowledge relations Explores connections between fields and disciplines in planning and design Extensive cross-referencing between entries Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Elgar encyclopedia in urban and regional planning and design: the productive fiction of unity in diversity 1 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 1 Adaptive planning 5 Gert de Roo 2 Adaptive reuse 8 Bie Plevoets and Francesca Lanz 3 Advocacy planning 11 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 4 Affordable housing 13 Alan Mallach 5 Agonism 16 John Erik Pløger 6 Area-based management tools 19 Froukje Maria Platjouw 7 Art: public art and planning 21 Tony Matthews 8 Assemblage 23 Gareth Abrahams 9 Asset and asset-based development 27 Ivis García 10 Autopoietic social systems and planning thought 31 Angelique Chettiparamb 11 Big data and machine learning 35 Lasse Gerrits and Sofia Pagliarin 12 Big Other 38 Elham Bahmanteymouri 13 Biophilic urbanism 40 Timothy Beatley 14 Biopolitics 44 Claudio Minca 15 Blueprint planning 47 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 16 Boundary organisation 49 Daan Boezeman 17 Boundary spanning 52 Daan Boezeman 18 Brownfield development 53 Luís Carlos Loures 19 Central planning, its geographies and scales 56 Barbara Czarniawska 20 Citizen science in spatial and environmental problems 59 Lasse Gerrits, Alexander Los and Sofia Pagliarin 21 Climate change adaptation planning and resilience 63 S. Jeff Birchall and Danielle Koleyak 22 Colonial legacies in planning and design 67 Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld and Raoul Beunen 23 Commons 69 Stefano Moroni 24 Communicative planning theory and its critiques 71 Raine Mäntysalo 25 Complexity and planning 74 Gert de Roo 26 Conflict and shock 78 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 27 Conservation subdivision design 80 Randall Arendt 28 Corruption 87 Stefano Moroni 29 Creativity 89 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 30 Critical planning 91 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 31 Culture and planning culture 92 Frank Othengrafen 32 Density 96 Jill L. Grant 33 Dependencies in planning and governance 100 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 34 Design: public–private divides in the urban realm 102 Ali Madanipour 35 Design: tensions and ambiguities 104 Ali Madanipour 36 Desire, drive, disavowal 106 Elham Bahmanteymouri 37 Digitalization in planning 111 Anna M. Hersperger, Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits 38 Disability and urban planning 115 Lisa Stafford and Matt Novacevski 39 Dispositif 118 John Erik Pløger 40 Downtown development and revitalization 122 Dagney Faulk 41 Earthly attachments in the Anthropocene 125 Edward H. Huijbens 42 Ecosystems-based governance 129 Froukje Maria Platjouw 43 Ecosystems services 132 Davide Geneletti and Chiara Cortinovis 44 Energy and strategic energy planning 134 Martijn Gerritsen 45 Environmental justice 137 Stijn Neuteleers 46 European spatial planning 142 Andreas Faludi 47 Experiment 146 Torill Nyseth 48 Expertise and local knowledge 148 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 49 Foresight and visioning 150 Timothy J. Dixon 50 Fragility, resilience and design 153 Esther Charlesworth and John Fien 51 Garden City and Garden City ideas 157 Christine Garnaut 52 Genius loci and design 160 Randall S. Lindstrom 53 Green activism 165 Michael Hardman 54 Heritage planning 167 Karim van Knippenberg 55 History: learning from urban and environmental history 169 Jill L. Grant 56 Homelessness policy and planning 175 Joshua Evans 57 Identity 179 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 58 Ideology 181 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 59 Inclusion/exclusion 183 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 60 Indigenous planning 185 Theodore Jojola 61 Informal settlements 189 Debadutta Parida 62 Informality 193 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 63 Infrastructure and planning 195 Tim Busscher and Marijn van Geet 64 Innovation 199 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 65 Institutions and institutionalism 201 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 66 Insurgent planning 203 Efadul Huq 67 International and transnational planning 205 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 68 Lacan’s four discourses in planning 207 Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 69 Lacanian approaches to planning 212 Elham Bahmanteymouri 70 Land consolidation 215 Terry van Dijk 71 Legibility 217 Derk Jan Stobbelaar 72 Line of flight 220 Gareth Abrahams 73 Livelihoods, planning for 222 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 74 Long-term perspectives and futures 224 Peter Pelzer and Wieke Pot 75 Master signifiers 228 Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 76 Memory, legacy, history 231 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 77 Methods 233 Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld and Raoul Beunen 78 Milieu 235 Jean Hillier 79 Mixed-use 239 Markus Moos and Tara Vinodrai 80 Modernism and planning 241 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 81 Multiplicity 243 Freek de Haan 82 Narrative 247 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 83 Neighbourhood design 249 Ali Madanipour 84 Network governance 253 Joop Koppenjan 85 New public management 257 Kris Hartley 86 New urbanism 260 Katherine Perrott 87 Noise and city design 263 Juan Miguel Barrigón Morillas, Guillermo Rey Gozalo and David Montes González 88 Nomocracy 266 Stefano Moroni 89 Object formation 268 Henk-Jan Kooij 90 Organization theory, lessons for the relation between planning and politics 271 Barbara Czarniawska 91 Participation 274 Torill Nyseth 92 Participatory planning and design 277 Jesus J. Lara 93 Place-based development 280 Greg Halseth, Laura Ryser and Sean Markey 94 Place branding in strategic spatial planning 284 Eduardo da Silva Oliveira 95 Policy integration 288 Jeroen J.L. Candel 96 Polycentricity 290 Wil Zonneveld 97 Post-colonialism – and beyond 295 Patrick Devlieger 98 Post-disaster planning 297 Robert Coates and Jeroen Warner 99 Power and planning 301 Raphaël Fischler 100 Power in planning literature 303 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 101 Power/knowledge 305 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 102 Property 307 Benjamin David Davy 103 Property rights and planning 310 Eran S. Kaplinsky 104 Public debate, discussion and dialogue 312 Noelle Aarts 105 Public interest 314 Stefano Moroni 106 Public–private partnerships 316 Stefan Verweij 107 Qualitative comparative analysis in planning studies 320 Lasse Gerrits and Sofia Pagliarin 108 Rationality and planning 324 Gert de Roo 109 Regional design 328 Terry van Dijk 110 Regional planning 330 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 111 Research through design 332 Sanda Lenzholzer 112 Resource towns: mining and social disruption 334 Lochner Marais 113 Rhetoric 336 James Throgmorton 114 Rhythmanalysis in planning 338 Robin A. Chang 115 Rules 341 Stefano Moroni 116 Self-organization 343 Ward Rauws 117 Shrinking cities and urban shrinkage 347 Marjan Marjanović 118 Smart cities: hype and reality 351 Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits 119 Smart growth 354 Katherine Perrott 120 Social capital in governance and sustainable development 357 Stefan Partelow 121 Social-ecological systems 362 Fikret Berkes 122 Social innovation and planning 365 Gert Verschraegen and Stijn Oosterlynck 123 Social justice 370 Susan S. Fainstein 124 Spatial planning concepts 373 Wil Zonneveld 125 Sprawl 375 Hans Leinfelder and Edwin Buitelaar 126 Storytelling 377 Terry van Dijk 127 Strata 378 Gareth Abrahams 128 Strategic navigation 380 Jean Hillier 129 Strategic spatial planning 383 Räine Mäntysalo 130 Strategy 387 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 131 Systems thinking 389 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 132 Therapy, planning as 392 Lisa Schweitzer 133 Think tanks 395 Daan Boezeman 134 Transition 396 René Kemp and Patrick Huntjens 135 Transversality 399 Jean Hillier 136 Trust 402 Jasper R. de Vries 137 Urban climate responsive planning and design 404 Sanda Lenzholzer 138 Utopia 406 David Pinder 139 Values and rational judgments: the role of ethics 408 Claudia Basta 140 Verticality 412 Ana Aceska 141 Walkability 415 Katherine Perrott 142 Waste picking 418 Radhika Borde 143 Youthification 420 Markus Moos 144 Zoning 423 Raphaël Fischler

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Book SynopsisContributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a broad discussion of infrastructure as social phenomena. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current âinfrastructural turnâ and assess policy and research challenges relating to contemporary forms of infrastructural development.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of research into urban politics and policy in cities across the globe. Leading scholars examine the position of urban politics within political science and analyse the critical approaches and interdisciplinary pressures that are broadening the field.

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Book SynopsisAddressing fundamental questions surrounding the critical changes affecting China’s urban landscape, social organization and community governance, Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China thoroughly reviews the reform of property rights in changing political and economic conditions.Zhu Qian presents a comprehensive study highlighting the key theories and practices in urban and social development processes and provides guidance on how to understand both the parallels and differences that these reveal. Utilizing a cross-sectoral and multi-scalar examination of property rights in a property-led urban environment, the book illustrates increasingly complex interactions between state and non-state actors and examines the characteristics and consequences of rural-urban land conversion. It further analyses the impacts of resettled villagers’ adaptation to urban society and the role of property rights in China’s recent high-profile urban-rural integrated development.This insightful book will ensure a thorough grasp of the pertinent issues for scholars, researchers and practitioners within the fields of urban planning, human geography and land economics. It will also provide a more general systemic understanding for graduate students interested in the recent challenges and strategies in a property rights regime with strong state intervention.Trade Review‘Zhu Qian provides an incredibly thorough treatment of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal role of state-controlled property rights in China’s phenomenal urbanisation, resettlement and urban-rural integration, informality and property speculation are highly original and insightful. The book is an essential reading for those who are interested in urban development in China and the grounded implication of property rights.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China by Zhu Qian provides a solid analytical contribution to our understanding of the complex processes of institutional change that underlie Chinese urbanization. The author has conducted valuable and in-depth research on land rights in the context of China’s multi-faceted development, including on political campaigns, land acquisition, informal housing, and resettlement. The book will be of significant value for planners, geographers, and practitioners.’ -- Peter Ho, Zhejiang University, China and London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: property rights in China’s urban transformation 2. Property rights, institutions, and the market 3. Property rights during the socialist period 4. Property rights and rural‒urban land conversion 5. Resettlement and transformation 6. Property rights and urban‒rural integrated development 7. Informality and property rights 8. Concluding reflections: continuing debates and future prospects References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on discourse analysis, this innovative book takes a novel approach to examining the different interpretations, diversity of views and controversy in society about transport and urban development.Combining theory with empirical case studies, this book breaks new ground in the field by critically engaging with an understanding of the different perspectives and subjectivities associated with transport systems and urban development projects. Incorporating the diverse wider societal and political contexts, various approaches to discourse analysis are examined, including content analysis, critical discourse analysis and Q methodology. Examining the narratives in transport and urban development, chapters study car advertising, highway reconstruction, public transport, bus provision, transit-orientated development and financialisation, walking and cycling networks, and emerging new technologies. Ultimately, the book argues that mainstream views and processes must be confronted in order to respond to contemporary public policy challenges, and makes a convincing case for the wider use of discourse analysis in transport and urban development research, planning and implementation.Global in scope, this cutting-edge book will prove vital reading for students and scholars of transport planning and urban development. Its practical guidance will be useful to transport and development policymakers and practitioners working in urban and regional authorities, consultancies and civil society.Trade Review‘Sustainable transport and urban development is key to future liveable cities, as the global urban population continues to grow across the world. A broader understanding of what are the most effective planning approaches to transport and urban development is required to move forward in a world facing climate uncertainties and growing population needs. Different perspectives and disciplinary approaches have provided, in recent years, a fresh take on ways to tackle some of the more complex urban problems. This book is among the first to bring together a mix of academics from a variety of disciplines, discussing different aspects of transport and urban development, using discourse analysis as primary methodological approach. This book provides researchers and students with a comprehensive discussion on the discourse analysis approach as well as useful case studies from a variety of contexts and geographies.’ -- Maria Attard, University of Malta, Malta‘At a time of climate crisis, rapidly increasing urban inequalities and profound technological change, transport and urban planning must change radically. This requires new approaches to understanding the meanings and power relations that are inscribed into, and generated by, transport systems and governance. Discourse Analysis in Transport and Urban Development demonstrates compellingly how different kinds of discourse analysis can help transport researchers, students and professionals make sense of the many and power-laden contestations over how transport systems can and should be changed and improved.’ -- Tim Schwanen, University of Oxford, UK‘This book successfully combines international case studies and voices from authors of multiple academic disciplines to challenge car-oriented transportation research and practice. It highlights how car-oriented terminology, language, and discourses shape transportation and sustainability outcomes. The book is an eye-opener for practitioners and academics in sustainable transport as they can begin to learn how to detect and start to disentangle from car-dominated discourses and language.’ -- Ralph Buehler, Virginia Tech, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiii Acknowledgements xvi PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Using discourse analysis in transport and urban development research 2 Robin Hickman and Christine Hannigan PART II GRAND NARRATIVES 2 Transport planning, paradigms and practices: finding conditions for change 11 Ruben Akse, Adri Albert de la Bruhèze and Karst Geurs 3 Exploring growth as a central representation in sustainable transport discourse 24 Elias Isaksson 4 Discursive power dynamics affecting how climate targets are framed and integrated in national transport planning: the case of Sweden 39 Karolina Isaksson, Linnea Eriksson and Jacob Witzell 5 Stakeholders’ perceptions of urban mobility in a Central European country: a Q methodology approach 52 Hana Brůhová Foltýnová, Eliška Vejchodská, Radomíra Jordová and Kristýna Rybová 6 The meta and master narratives of mega transport infrastructure 67 Daniel Durrant PART III CASE STUDIES ON DISCOURSE, TRANSPORT AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT 7 Car advertising and environmental greenwashing 80 Robin Hickman 8 The Interstate Highway 70 reconstruction project in Denver: repeating a 1960s planning failure? 97 Andrew R. Goetz 9 Sustainability and shared ride-hailing in a mega-city: the rhetoric and impacts of Uber Juntos in São Paulo 112 Leandro da Silva Correa and Anthony Perl 10 Legitimising HS2: analysing political speeches from 2010–2014 131 James Udagawa 11 Where are the rails? An investigation into the climate, future prospects and barriers to high-speed rail development in Canada 149 Giacomo Vecia 12 Exploring bus reform in Malta 172 Thérèse Bajada 13 Cycling promotion and narratives of urban development: an ecolinguistic approach 185 M. Cristina Caimotto 14 Community, authenticity and newness: obscuring financial motivations in transport and development projects through discourse at Battersea Power Station 198 Christine Hannigan 15 MaaS unmasked: how local leaders think they are resisting (and are thereby accelerating) the neoliberalisation of transport policies 211 Nacima Baron 16 Anything that can reasonably be automated will be: analysis of transport automation imaginaries in the Finnish context 228 Janne Olin and Miloš N. Mladenović PART IV CONCLUSIONS 17 Next steps for discourse analysis in transport and urban development 242 Christine Hannigan and Robin Hickman Index

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Book SynopsisA political scientist and an urban architect explore China's odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions is the first book-length study combining analysis of politics and power, urban design and planning issues derived from the co-authors' interdisciplinary research, and on-site fieldwork from their political science and architectural area specialties. Begun in 1986, little-known policy actions have taken shape in the building of 285 eco-cities--and growing. What are the driving forces of these innovative developments? How is China going about converting its teeming urban areas into replicable and showcase cities? Can these new policy initiatives overcome the damage done to its air, waterways, and land, while significantly reducing public health dangers to its inhabitants? In searching for means for the People s Republic of China to take the next step from eco-cities to sustainable city-regions, the co-authors assess the potential success of China's present course and offer key recommendations for Chinese political leaders, urban planners, and citizen stakeholders to make the transition to a sustainable future for its people and the rest of the world. The primary market for this book will be eco-researchers, Asian studies scholars and teachers, eco- and urban architects, environmental and urban policy professionals, and advanced undergraduates in environmental and sustainability studies or sciences programs. The interdisciplinary reach and critical framework of analysis will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in Chinese ecological strides and seeking a critical assessment of its potential.Trade Review‘Overall, this book provides good insights into China’s sustainability effort, the development logic, and various controversies in China’s eco-park development. The various cases provide a vivid view of how Chinese cities search for their path in ecological modernization and the bumpy roads they experienced when attempting to transplant the sustainability concept into the local soil. It can be used as a textbook for under-graduates or graduates to understand sustainability debates and its operationalization process in different political-economic-societal contexts. It can also provide researchers on sustainability and eco-park development with rich information and provocative reflections on the global sustainability debate.’ -- Yawei Chen, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to urban architectural design as an opportunity for informed collective activism over time.’ -- Robert J Koester, The Plan Journal‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to achieve highly-integrative systemic performance at the scale of the City-as-a-Hill and its surrounding rural partner land. No less, it provides the means for the ambitious sustainability interests of the Chinese party-state to achieve global recognition for becoming a social and environmentally integrated ecological civilization.’ -- Robert J. Koester, Ball State University, US'From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions by Ernest J. Yanarella and Richard S. Levine deserves to be widely read. General readers, China specialists, environmental scientists, and policy makers alike will gain insight into current sustainability concepts and practices around the world, be drawn into a case study approach to China's environmental challenges, and benefit from the well balanced analysis of China's efforts, complications, achievements, and failures to address those challenges through the creation of sustainable city-regions.' --Terry Bodenhorn, (Retired) Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Director of the Library, and Professor of Modern Chinese History, Shantou University, China 2010-2019'Yanarella and Levine bring a needed focus on the term ''eco-cities,'' taking it further to ''sustainable city-regions.'' They draw on their detailed knowledge of China's exploration of eco-cities as part of an ecological civilization. This book is an important assessment of a key aspect of transitioning to a sustainable future.' --Haydn Washington, author of What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: China’s Eco-cities and Bid to Become an Eco-Civilization 1. Theoretical Foundations of the Sustainable City-Region 2. Eco-city Development Strategy in Beijing and China’s Cities: Top-down/Bottom-up Dynamics 3. Suzhou, Wuxi and China’s Twenty-first Century Eco-city Program: From Austerity Ecology to Eco-scientific Plenty 4. New Kunming/Chenggong Eco-District: City Surrounding the Countryside? 5. Shantou: A Metropolitan Coastal Garden-City in the Making? 6. Beyond the Dongtan Debacle: Tianjin and Global Showcase Urban Sustainability Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEncompassing a broad range of innovative studies on planning support science, this timely Handbook examines how the consequences of pressing societal challenges can be addressed using computer-based systems. Chapters explore the use of new streams of big and open data as well as data from traditional sources, offering significant critical insights into the field. Contributions from key scholars from around the world demonstrate how mature the field of planning support science has become in providing support for practitioners to confront diverse problems. The Handbook analyses a carefully selected range of case studies looking at digitization, big data, geodesign, applied modelling, smart city instruments and planning support systems. It addresses key urban challenges including traffic congestion, neighbourhood gentrification and urban heat-island formation, providing examples of how planning practitioners can improve modern urban conditions. Scholars of urban and regional studies as well as human geographers will find this to be a critical reference on the topic. With examples of planning applications from across the world, this will also be a key resource for urban and regional planners and policy-makers. Contributors include: J. Barton, R. Behrens, C. Biderman, M. Birkin, S. Blanchard, P. Boden, M. Campagna, Y. Chen, H. Chou, J. Claassens, C. Daniel, C. de Boer, B. Deal, Z. Deng, S. Eagleson, F. Fernandez, F. Figari, J. Flacke, Q.-L. Gao, S. Geertman, X. Goldie, R. Goodspeed, P. Greenwood, Y. Gu, S. Guhathakurta, J.D. Hamerlinck, N. Hood, R. Hughes, W. James, E. Janowicz, R. Janssen, M. Kahila-Tani, R. Kingston, B.W. Koo, E. Koomen, P. Krause, H.R. Kwon, M. Kyttä, S.Z. Leao, J. Li, S. Li, X. Li, S. Lieske, J. Liu, L. Liu, Z. Liu, O. Lock, N. Lomax, Y. Long, R. Lovelace, I. Luque-Martín, J. Martinez, S. Maurer, T. Moyo, W. Musakwa, A. Newing, H. Niu, P. Pelzer, C. Pettit, K. Pfeffer, S. Pinnegar, E. Punt, B. Rijken, R. Sieber, E.A. Silva, A.P. Smith, A. Staffans, I. Sterland, J. Stillwell, B. Stimson, T. Su, D.C. Swiatek, Z. Tomor, F. van den Bosch, V. Vlastaras, P. Waddell, S. Wang, M. Wegener, C. Whitcomb, P. Witte, A.G.O. Yeh, Y. Yue, G. Zhang, X. Zhang, N. Zhao, Z. Zheng, X. Zhou, M. ZuidgeestTrade Review'The editors and authors put together this seminal volume at the cross-roads of geospatial technologies, systems and (big and small) data science. Long-term PSSers and the newly initiated will enjoy this state of the art volume which builds on the past and looks into the future trajectory of PSS.' --Zorica Nedovic-Budic, University of Illinois at Chicago, US, and University College Dublin, Ireland'The Handbook of Planning Support Science provides an important, up-to-date review of innovative methods, tools, techniques, and case studies on the development and use of planning support systems (PSS), computer-based tools that support planning and policy-making. This essential international collection describes state-of-the-art applications using big data and data analytics, smart cities, cloud-based computing, and geodesign.' --Richard E. Klosterman, University of Akron, US'Read on. Enter a cornucopia of intelligent applications and reflections on PSS. Enjoy.' --Michael Batty, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: planning support systems in a connected world by Michael Batty xiii Preface xix 1 Planning support science: challenges, themes and applications 1 Stan Geertman and John Stillwell PART I DATA INTEGRATION AND LINKAGE 2 Data linkage and its applications for planning support systems 22 Mark Birkin, William James, Nik Lomax and Andrew Smith 3 Hard and soft data integration in geocomputation: mixed methods for data collection and processing in urban planning 37 Elisabete A. Silva, Lun Liu, Heeseo Rain Kwon, Haifeng Niu and Yiqiao Chen 4 Open access, open source and cloud computing: a glimpse into the future of GIS 56 Christopher Pettit, Bob Stimson, Jack Barton, Xavier Goldie, Philip Greenwood, Robin Lovelace and Serryn Eagleson PART II METHODS FOR SPATIAL PLANNING 5 Spatial planning and geodesign 73 Michele Campagna 6 Methodology and application of data augmented design: a case study of urban redevelopment design for the Panyu-Xinhua Area, Shanghai 87 Tianyu Su, Shihui Li, Jing Li, Hungyu Chou and Ying Long 7 Geodesign, resilience and planning support systems: the integration of process and technology 110 Yexuan Gu and Brian Deal 8 Spatial modelling and forecasting 132 Subhrajit Guhathakurta, Ge Zhang and Bon Woo Koo 9 Are urban land-use transport interaction models planning support systems? 153 Michael Wegener 10 Automated monitoring of planning policy: an overview of the journey from theory to practice 161 Claire Daniel PART III PLANNING SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND THE SMART CITY CONCEPT 11 Big data, urban analytics and the planning of smart cities 179 Anthony G.O. Yeh, Yang Yue, Xingang Zhou and Qi-Li Gao 12 Planning support systems and science beyond the smart city 199 Zhibin Zheng and Renée Sieber 13 The achievements and challenges of planning support science in e-planning in China 213 Shifu Wang, Zhaohua Deng, Zheng Liu, Nannan Zhao, Xiaoyang Zhang and Jie Liu 14 Smart governance in the making: integrating ‘smart’ in local spatial planning 226 Patrick Witte, Eline Punt and Stan Geertman 15 The influence of political context on smart governance initiatives in Glasgow, Utrecht and Curitiba 238 Zsuzsanna Tomor and Stan Geertman 16 Challenging the conventional wisdom: the case of MobiLab, S.o Paulo, Brazil 257 Ciro Biderman and Daniela Coimbra Swiatek PART IV PARTICIPATION AND ENGAGEMENT IN PLANNING 17 Transcending the exemplars of utility and implementation in planning support science 270 Scott N. Lieske 18 Limitations and potential of planning support systems application in planning in southern Spain: bridging academia and practice 281 Irene Luque-Martín and Karin Pfeffer 19 Interactive planning support systems with citizens: lessons learned from renewable energy planning in the Netherlands 294 Johannes Flacke, Cheryl de Boer, Frans van den Bosch and Karin Pfeffer 20 Participatory urban planning in the digital era 307 Aija Staffans, Maarit Kahila-Tani and Marketta Kyttä 21 Local government web-based services for neighbourhood planning 323 Richard Kingston and Vasileios Vlastaras 22 Organizing, facilitating, and evaluating planning support system workshops 338 Robert Goodspeed and Peter Pelzer 23 Using geodesign for collaborative planning: development planning in the Lower Zambezi Valley 353 Ron Janssen 24 Perspectives on planning support systems and e-planning in southern Africa: opportunities, challenges and the road ahead 366 Walter Musakwa and Thembani Moyo PART V SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR LAND-USE AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING 25 Linking socio-economic and physical dynamics in spatial planning 383 Jip Claassens, Eric Koomen and Bart Rijken 26 Cellular automata modelling for urban planning in fast-growth regions 397 Xia Li and Anthony G.O. Yeh 27 UrbanCanvas: a collaborative platform for informed planning 416 Paul Waddell, Edward Janowicz, Samuel Blanchard and Samuel Maurer 28 The making of a mega-region: evaluating and proposing long-term transport planning strategies with open-source data and transport accessibility tools 442 Oliver Lock, Simon Pinnegar, Simone Z. Leao and Christopher Pettit PART VI SECTORAL PLANNING SUPPORT 29 Planning support systems for retail location planning 459 Andy Newing, Nick Hood and Iain Sterland 30 Planning support systems for school-place forecasting 471 Peter Boden, Rebecca Hughes and John Stillwell 31 Penciler: a web-based affordable housing development feasibility analysis tool 486 Paul Waddell, Christiana Whitcomb, Francisco Figari, Federico Fernandez and Justin Martinez 32 A GIS-based planning support system for inclusionary housing profitability optimization in Cape Town, South Africa 506 Philip Krause, Mark Zuidgeest and Roger Behrens 33 Applying planning support science in rural environments 524 Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck Index 539

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Book SynopsisThis timely and comprehensive Handbook addresses how Chinese cities govern the environmental changes generated by fast economic growth and urbanisation. Outlining the relationship between the state, market, and society, this Handbook provides a systematic understanding of urban environmental governance in China.Exploring the context of changing urban environmental policies in China, leading international scholars highlight the arts of governance and governmentality through experimentation and discourse. Chapters investigate the political ecologies of eco-cities and conservation, urban waste management, and governance and sustainability transitions, as well as focusing on low-carbon innovations and green buildings. With a territorial perspective grounded in Chinese cities, contributors interrogate changing and complex state–market–society dynamics in urbanisation and urban environmental governance.With a thorough and systematic analysis of new environmental initiatives, practices, and impacts, this Handbook provides scholars, students, and policy researchers of environmental studies, politics, and East Asian studies with an exemplary selection of contemporary research on China’s urban environmental governance.Trade Review‘Nuanced in both description and analysis, this rich Handbook is a welcome resource for students of urban and environmental developments in China during its push towards “ecological civilisation”. It is broad in its empirical reach, presenting cases across urban and rural environments at various scales, and breaks new ground in its conceptual and methodological dimensions.’ -- Roger Keil, York University, Canada‘This outstanding collection provides a unique insight on the practices, rationalities, and outcomes of current urban environmental governance in the “Middle Kingdom”. The book foregrounds the tensions that emerge from the implementation of government-led discourses, and also engages with the emergence of a new urban technological sublime in environmental policy, alongside more conventional strategies for institutional change. This book is destined to become a classic and will surely be essential reading for any researchers and students grappling with the complexity of urban development and climate politics in China.’ -- Vanesa Castan Broto, Sheffield University, UK‘This timely edited collection examines how the ideology of “ecological civilisation” is reshaping urban environmental governance in China. Bringing together insightful case studies of a range of contemporary urban environmental problems, the collection shows how the Chinese state’s attempts to manage the socio-ecological challenges of urban entrepreneurialism amount to little more than temporary “fixes”.’ -- Andrew E.G. Jonas, University of Hull, UK‘This Handbook is an essential resource for anyone interested in environmental governance in China. It provides insightful analysis that will help both students and practitioners better understand how there is a wide range of environmental governance practices and political ecologies in China today!’ -- Genia Kostka, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii 1 China’s urban environmental governance 1 Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu and Yining Liu PART I CONTEXTS, PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY CHANGES 2 China’s eco dreams and green reality 26 Austin Williams 3 Indigenous literary perspectives on green governance grassland management policies in China 41 Robin Visser 4 When an entrepreneurial government hammers out a plan for sustainable growth: a sustainable urban experiment story in China? 54 Yang Fu and Xiaoling Zhang 5 Resilient city planning and practices in China 69 Guofang Zhai and Yuwen Lu 6 The applicability of environmental governance theories to China 93 Xidong Cao and Li Yu PART II GOVERNMENTALITY: EXPERIMENTS AND DISCOURSES 7 Farmland preservation and watershed management in China: a perspective of local entrepreneurial leadership in the party-state mechanism 115 Shiuh-Shen Chien 8 Carbon governmentality in Chinese cities 128 Le-Yin Zhang 9 The politics of climate experimentalism in China 144 Kevin Lo 10 Climate transformation through experimental governance: the case of the low-carbon city pilot program in China 156 Zhilin Liu, Jie Wang and Yunzhu Chen 11 Urban sustainability experiments in China: plural approaches for transformation 169 Linjun Xie, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Mengqi Shao, Yuxi Zhang and Faith Chan 12 Eco and low-carbon, smart and sponge: potential and delusion in realising environmental benefits from sustainable city branding 186 Martin de Jong and Li Sun 13 Greening Chinese cities? Denaturalizing the ‘good’ of environmental discourses in China’s urban planning system 201 Jiang Xu and Mengzhu Zhang PART III POLITICAL ECOLOGIES: ECO-CITIES AND CONSERVATION 14 Eco-cities in China: national initiatives, local implementation and livelihood transitions 227 I-Chun Catherine Chang 15 Political ecologies of urban–rural conservation planning and resettlement 243 Jesse Rodenbiker 16 Negotiating urban sustainability on the ground: China’s greenway development as land politics 257 Calvin King Lam Chung and Jingya Dai PART IV WASTE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE 17 China’s environmental governance transition: a new paradigm for waste management 272 Yuchen Yang, Will McDowall and Fangzhu Zhang 18 Towards an inclusive circular economy: wise-waste city network in China 291 Xin Tong 19 Sustainable waste management: the influences of government capacity in the greater China region 304 Natalie W.M. Wong, Lin Peng and Chin-chih Wang 20 From state entrepreneurialism to state-led ecological civilisation: changing dispositifs of governing e-waste metabolism and ‘cyborg’ urbanisation in China’s e-waste cities 323 Kun Wang, Junxi Qian and Shenjing He 21 Ecological civilization, anti-incineration activism and the rolling out of ‘compulsory waste-sorting’ programs in Chinese cities 340 Shih-yang Kao PART V LOW-CARBON ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITION 22 Green industry development and urban sustainability transitions in China’s latecomer cities: the case of Dezhou 355 Zhen Yu and David Gibbs 23 Green building in China: governance and promotion of sustainability 369 Yu Zhou and Tianchen Zhou 24 Urban transition governance in China’s new era of ecological civilization: opportunities and challenges 387 Ping Huang, Linda Westman and Xiyan Mao 25 Integrated transit and sustainable urban development: case studies of metro and HSR stations 403 Yun Song and Biyue Wang Index 417

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This updated second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment offers an up-to-date exploration of the current theory and practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), a crucial tool for evaluating and mitigating the impacts of development projects on the environment. Angus Morrison-Saunders provides an overview of the key concepts, principles, and methodologies of EIA, with a focus on recent developments, emerging trends, and best practices in the field.Key Features: Fresh analyses of how environment and development intersect in EIA Exploration of the fundamental ideas promoted by the pioneers of EIA Revised content on international best practice EIA principles and how they apply today Reflections on the increasing need to adopt a holistic, sustainability-oriented approach to EIA. With accessible style, comprehensive coverage, and a practical approach, this book is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in environmental studies, environmental governance, policy and regulation, urban planning, and related fields who want to deepen their understanding of EIA.Trade Review‘This is a must-read for everyone interested in Environmental Impact Assessment. The author provides a clear and masterful overview of the fundamentals of EIA, that is relevant for those who are new to the field as well as for experienced practitioners and scholars who want to advance their understanding of its origins and development.’ -- Jos Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands‘Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this book will open up one's mind to the richness and complexity of EIA, drawing on insightful case studies and more than 350 references from the very early days of EIA to the most recent peer-reviewed journal publications.’ -- Alberto Fonseca, Federal University of Ouro Preto, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the second edition vii Preface to the first edition viii PART I OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT 1 Introduction: setting the scene 2 Forms of EIA 3 Back to the beginning – EIA and the National Environmental Policy Act 1969 (US) 4 A brief reflection on the goals and purpose of EIA PART II GENERIC EIA PROCESS COMPONENTS 5 EIA and decision-making 6 Screening and scoping 7 Prediction, assessment and mitigation 8 Review, approval decision and EIA follow-up PART III ABOUT DEVELOPMENT 9 Spectrum of development and design considerations 10 Alternatives and mitigation 9PART IV ABOUT ENVIRONMENT 11 Representing environment 12 Engaging with stakeholders PART V BRINGING DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT TOGETHER 13 Science, uncertainty and adaptive management in EIA 14 Holistic and cumulative impact assessment PART VI CLOSING REMARKS ON EIA 15 Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded as the age of cities, is associated with the current crisis of democracy.The book explores the tension between non-democratic liberalism and non-liberal democracy and the present era of cities as complex systems, in which the characteristics and dynamics of urbanism are transforming our way of life. Against the backdrop of globalization, the Anthropocene, and Industry 4.0, each chapter analyses the challenges and crises facing modern democracies from the unique perspective of cities and complexity theory. Expert contributors analyse the interplay between complexity theory, urban planning, governance and the internet, ultimately highlighting the need to rediscover the relationship between urban beauty and democracy.Offering key insights into the complexities of urban development and the challenges that arise when democracy intersects with the needs of modern cities, this innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of urban geography, political science, public administration, and architecture. It will be an invaluable resource for those researching cities and complexity.Trade Review‘Juval Portugali's The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities offers a compelling analysis of the challenges facing democratic governance in complex hybrid systems. This edited volume provides a thought-provoking exploration of the intersections between urbanization and democratic politics, shedding light on the key issues confronting our societies today.’ -- Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction x PART I PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES 1 The crisis of democracy in the age of cities and complexity 2 Juval Portugali 2 The ancient Greek lottery and modern democracies 24 Irad Malkin 3 The end of empire and the age of cities 31 Michael Batty PART II COMPLEXITY THEORY, CITIES AND DEMOCRACY 4 Learning from small urban nations – the importance of randomness and feedback for democratic stability 51 Karoline Wiesner 5 Perfection, does it lean toward balance or perversion? How democracy and the urban grid inform about the human condition 68 Gert De Roo 6 A synergetic cities view on the crisis of democracy in the age of cities 108 Juval Portugali and Hermann Haken 7 Democracy demands wisdom 136 J.A. Scott Kelso PART III THE INTERNET, SMART CITIES AND DEMOCRACY 8 Why the internet must become more like a city 148 Luís M. A. Bettencourt 9 Privacy and trust in artificially intelligent cities 167 Charlie Catlett, Juval Portugali and Venkat Venkatakrishnan PARTIV URBAN GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING 10 Cities under pressure – urban democracy and everyday life 185 Sabine Knierbein 11 Governing cities democratically through partnerships 204 Ashwin Mahalingam and Juval Portugali 12 A crisis of lost values: rediscovering the relationship between urban beauty, democracy and complexity 220 Stefano Cozzolino 13 Democracy beyond the state in the age of cities: explaining crisis dynamics in national democracy 246 Hans Agné Index 267

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Book SynopsisTimely and accessible, this Handbook offers a thorough account of the growth, development, and changes in the field of tourism planning over recent decades. With contributions from an interdisciplinary and international range of top scholars, it examines critical issues and challenges facing contemporary tourism planning.Covering research at local, national, and global levels, chapters unpack and frame planning strategies in various destinations, expanding the definition of tourism planning to encompass a range of successful case studies. The Handbook looks at reimagining tourism planning through sustainability; engaging with forms of creative cultural tourism, the smart city, and rethinking how we see, communicate, understand, and can transform tourist destinations. It also highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified pre-existing issues in the tourism sector, including sustainability, policy, and governance.Providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on tourism planning, this Handbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the field. The diversity of perspectives and action-oriented, project-specific approach also make this an invigorating read for tourism planners and practitioners, particularly those focusing on making tourism practices more sustainable.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a fresh, interdisciplinary and postmodern approach to tourism planning that considers topical issues such as overtourism and community participation. Chapters are contributed by various scholars that not only refresh our understanding of the processes and outcomes of tourism planning, but they also give insights from different type of destinations all over the globe. The Handbook is a valuable source of reference for tourism researchers and policy makers alike.’ -- Marianna Sigala, Sheffield Hallam University, UK‘Xie’s Handbook on Tourism Planning is a comprehensive and timely compilation that documents progress in research and practice during the half century since the publication of Gunn’s pioneering book Vacationscape (1972). Contributing scholar practitioners from 15 countries and regions show the enduring importance of effective and multidisciplinary tourism planning in the complex and interconnected post-pandemic era.’ -- Brian King, Texas A&M University, US‘Given the pandemic and the importance of sustainability, Professor Philip Xie has curated an excellent collection of tourism planning research exploring genius loci, “a sense of place”, through 26 chapters spanning 15 different countries. This volume will be essential reading for those interested in tourism planning, and its impacts.’ -- Stephen Pratt, University of Central Florida, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Tourism Planning 1 Philip F. Xie PART I FOUNDATIONS OF TOURISM PLANNING 1 An important legacy of Clare Gunn: the championing of multidisciplinary thought and action 26 Michael Fagence 2 Creating new tourism stories: participatory tourism futures planning 39 Gianna Moscardo 3 Regional tourism planning within a developing economy context 55 Walter Jamieson and Michelle Jamieson 4 Understanding tourism impacts: a heterogeneous constructionism approach 77 Edieser Dela Santa and Mary Anne Ramos-Tumanan 5 Stakeholders’ perceptions and networking capacity in tourism planning: grounded theory applied to the Northern Region of mainland Portugal 92 Paula Remoaldo, Juliana Alves, Mansour Ghanian, António Azevedo and Sara Silva 6 The role of governance in tourism planning 119 Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo and Unathi Sonwabile Henama 7 National peripheries, borderlands and tourism planning 132 Dallen J. Timothy PART II THE CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF TOURISM PLANNING PRINCIPLES 8 Global risks and challenges of tourism planning 147 Wieslaw Alejziak 9 Existentialist authenticity model for eco-spiritual destinations 170 Deepak Chhabra 10 The importance of policies and planning in the tourism job market: a reflection on actions and inactions in the United Kingdom 182 Alberto Amore 11 Extracting the unique qualities of place: adding value to Clare Gunn’s spatial framework 195 Michael Fagence 12 Linking urban morphology to tourism planning 211 Philip F. Xie 13 Residents’ attitudes toward tourism development in the Azores, Portugal: effects of tourist-to-resident interaction 225 José Cadima Ribeiro, Laurentina Vareiro and Isabel Cristina Monjardino 14 The impact of tourist perception of fraud risk on tourism planning 242 Rasha Kassem and Daniel Santamaria PART III REIMAGINING TOURISM PLANNING THROUGH SUSTAINABILITY 15 Sustainability indicators for assessing tourism planning: the case of the application of the European tourism indicator system to County Sligo, Ireland 256 Emmet McLoughlin and Kelly Maguire 16 Planning local and neighbourhood commercial districts through a visitor economy lens 274 Walter Jamieson 17 Tourism planning and cross-border cooperation: the case of Iberian Eurocities 292 Ana Sofia Duque and Paulo Carvalho 18 Disintegrated coastal tourism development: reconnecting landscape research and planning practice 305 Kai Gu and Ye Li 19 Sustainable tourism: innovating path through smart city projects 321 Silvia Fernandes and Fatima L. Carvalho 20 Scenario planning for sustainable social tourism development 339 Omid Salek Farokhi and Samereh Pourmoradian PART IV CASE STUDIES OF SUCCESSFUL TOURISM PLANNING 21 Heritage tourism planning in Kazakhstan: authenticity, niche tourism development and diversification 352 Guillaume Tiberghien 22 A strategic planning for agritourism in Taiwan 370 Tsung-Chiung (Emily) Wu, Alex Yang-Chan Hsu and Wen Horng Yu 23 Ethnic tourism planning: a developing country perspective 387 Li Yang 24 Community-oriented approach for the development of cultural tourism destinations: the case of “LAG Terra Barocca” 398 Nicola Cerpelloni, Francesco Lucifora and Marco Platania 25 Planning a creative cultural tourism destination 417 Yang Zhang 26 Scuba diving attraction planning: seeking best practices in Queensland, Australia 437 David Coffey, Alexandra Coghlan and Sarah Gardiner Index 461

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Book SynopsisUrban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However, this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing demonstrate the urgent need for a broader approach in order to create and sustain great cities.Offering innovative solutions to these contemporary challenges, this second edition of How Great Cities Happen examines new and emerging directions in strategic land use transport planning and analyses how cities function as a home for future generations and other species. Taking an integrated approach, and building on the first edition, chapters explore a broad range of issues concerning strategic urban planning. These include planning for productivity growth; social inclusion and wellbeing, with a particular focus on planning cities for children and youth; housing affordability; environmental sustainability; and integrated governance and funding arrangements. New issues covered in this edition include pressing concerns like climate change and biodiversity protection. The authors adopt a meticulous yet non-technical and accessible approach, grounded in a blend of academic and real-world experience of cities.This transdisciplinary second edition will prove vital to students and scholars of urban planning, transport economics, and social and environmental policy, alongside professional planners and urban policymakers.Trade Review‘In an urban age disrupted by pandemics, war, economic crisis, and a failing global ecology, the second edition of How Great Cities Happen could not have come at a more important time. Its insightful lessons from urban policy making and governance in a variety of global cities, including the authors’ home town of Melbourne, extend and improve upon their earlier work. The book presents a very valuable and timely resource for government and citizens and deserves to be widely read and discussed.’ -- Brendan Gleeson, The University of Melbourne, Australia‘A timely and important contribution on some of the most vexing challenges facing cities today. Pathways are laid for creating low-carbon, affordable, and socially just places drawing lessons from some of the world’s best designed and livable cities, including Vancouver, Malmö, Melbourne, and London. A must read for progressive-minded urban planners.’ -- Robert Cervero, University of California, Berkeley, US‘This second edition provides topical and invaluable evidence for everyone concerned about the future and sustainability of cities, whether they are planners, researchers, politicians or residents.’ -- Richard D. Knowles, University of Salford, Manchester, UK and Founding Editor, Journal of Transport GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why this book? 2. What constitutes a ‘good city’: some case studies 3. Economic influences on strategic land use transport policy and planning 4. Land use and transport designed to meet social needs 5. A neighbourhood structured for children and youth 6. Housing affordability: a major problem for many cities 7. The environmental interface of cities 8. Governance 9. Funding 10. Putting an integrated land use transport strategy together References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction deftly explores urban segregation on an international scale, offering expert analysis on pressing and theoretical debates and key contemporary issues relating to this interdisciplinary field of study. It provides detailed insights into the various dimensions and domains of urban segregation, the range of methods used for measuring segregation, and the effects it can have on neighbourhoods and individuals. Recognising variations in the patterns of segregation from country to country, the book further discusses the different approaches and challenges affecting policy interventions.Key Features: A review of theories of urban segregation A focus on the impacts of urban segregation Critical analysis of classic and new research methods An exploration of urban segregation across all continents Discussion of why so much attention is given to segregation An outline of segregation in various domains and dimensions Composed of informative and engaging chapters, this timely Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for human geography, sociology and social policy, urban and regional studies students, teachers, and established academics.Trade Review‘In this Advanced Introduction, Sako Musterd offers a broad and incisive overview of the now voluminous literature on urban segregation. Musterd successfully navigates through the often contentious explanations for segregation, and offers new thinking about segregation and the links to spatial inequality. In an era when large scale immigration is changing the inner cities, in Europe and the US, it is a timely review of processes which are fundamental forces in urban change.’ -- William Clark, University of California, US‘This magnificent book could only have been written by Sako Musterd, who brilliantly distills the international scholarly and experiential expertise gained during his unparalleled career. It synthesizes in accessible fashion what we know about the conceptual, methodological, theoretical, political and policy issues related to segregation, and why we should care.’ -- George C. Galster, Wayne State University, US‘Urban segregation, whether by race, class, income or religion is a subject of long standing interest to politicians, policy makers and residents alike. It influences who lives where, and why and how and it has impacts on education, crime, housing and health. This is a must-read introduction by an internationally-known and long-established expert on the subject.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK‘Sako Musterd, one of the most eminent experts on urban segregation, presents an extensive and updated approach to this topic in his remarkable book. Through the innovative lens of an urban history perspective, he deals with the complexity and the multidimensional aspects of this crucial urban process, whilst also addressing important societal and policy considerations.’ -- Marco Oberti, Sciences Po Paris, and Centre for Research on Social Inequalities, France‘Advanced Introduction to Urban Segregation is a brilliant and magisterial synthesis of complex and multi-dimensional urban segregation beyond residential differentiation. Sako Musterd, a world authority on urban segregation research, lucidly explains the concept of urban segregation and its measurement, impacts and policy interventions. Based on his lifetime study of segregation, the book combines deep scholarship on the debates and the research agenda with a stimulating and accessible presentation for scholars and students. This is essential reading for many generations of urban studies.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition, this comprehensive Handbook tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. In a 'world tour' of urban contexts, the reader is guided through six continents confronting pressing segregation issues. Leading international scholars offer valuable insights across regional, ethnic, socioeconomic and welfare regime contexts. Three thematic parts explore key segregation questions worldwide, the multiple domains and dimensions of the topic and the methods, approaches and debates surrounding its measurement. Through these lenses, this timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed. Containing clear use of visual aids alongside textual analysis, this Handbook will be an engaging and accessible resource for students and scholars with an interest in urban and human geography, cities and planning, and the wider field of urban studies. Contributors include: R. Andersson, R. Atkinson, N. Bailey, W.R. Boterman, A. Brama, A. Cardoso, R. Cucca, R. Forrest, D. França, F. Gou, H. Hanhörster, H.K. Ho, C. Hochstenbach, P.A. Jargowsky, J. Kohlbacher, Z. Kovács, C. Lemanski, Z. Li, A. Madanipour, T. Maloutas, E. Marques, S. Musterd, M. Oberti, J. Östh, A. Owens, E. Préteceille, B. Randolph, U. Reeger, K.S. Tong, U. Türk, W. van Gent, J. van Rooyen, A. Walks, W. Wang, S. WeckTrade Review'Sako Musterd has brought together an extraordinary group of distinguished scholars from across the world to produce a cross-national, interdisciplinary study of urban segregation. As well as providing a wealth of empirical data and methodological approaches to the study of segregation, the book makes important contributions to the analysis of globalization, neoliberalism, gentrification, and the decline of the welfare state. Yet, while attributing much to these general processes, it also distinguishes the varying effects of particular local and national policies.' --Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design, US'This book presents new points of departure for debates about segregation. Its chapters provide original, cross-disciplinary, research-based accounts using different frameworks to build on earlier work. They explore economic, policy and other factors that drive changing patterns of urban segregation in different cities and countries and analyse how the various dimensions of segregation are overlapping and reinforcing. The book provides new insights and a new baseline that make it essential reading for anyone concerned with urban research and policy.' --Alan Murie, University of Birmingham, UK'Social segregation is a wide-ranging and important phenomenon within cities across the world. The implications are profound in terms of social interaction as well as access to employment, housing, education, health, transport and open space. This valuable edited collection examines the variations in segregation in a variety of different cities and contexts and will be an important source for staff and students.' --Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK and UESTC, Chengdu, ChinaTable of ContentsContents List of contributors ix Preface xv INTRODUCTION 1 Urban segregation: contexts, domains, dimensions and approaches 2 Sako Musterd PART I KEY SEGREGATION ISSUES ACROSS THE GLOBE: URBAN SEGREGATION IN CITIES IN AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 2 Urban segregation in South Africa: the evolution of exclusion in Cape Town 19 Jacobus van Rooyen and Charlotte Lemanski 3 Segregation by class and race in S.o Paulo 36 Eduardo Marques and Danilo Fran.a 4 Residential segregation of rural migrants in post-reform urban China 55 Zhigang Li and Feicui Gou 5 Dimensions of urban segregation at the end of the Australian dream 76 Bill Randolph 6 Globalization, immigration and ethnic diversity: the exceptional case of Vienna 101 Josef Kohlbacher and Ursula Reeger 7 Do market forces reduce segregation? The controversies of post-socialist urban regions of Central and Eastern Europe 118 Zolt.n Kov.cs 8 Urban and school segregation in the larger Paris metropolitan area: a complex interweaving with a strong qualitative impact on social cohesion 134 Marco Oberti 9 Racial and economic segregation in the US: overlapping and reinforcing dimensions 151 Paul A. Jargowsky PART II MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND DIMENSIONS OF SEGREGATION 10 Can the public space be a counterweight to social segregation? 170 Ali Madanipour 11 Spatial segregation and the quality of the local environment in contemporary cities 185 Roberta Cucca 12 Intersections of class, ethnicity and age: social segregation of children in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam 200 Willem R. Boterman 13 Change and persistence in the third dimension: residential segregation by age and family type in Stockholm, 1990 and 2014 219 .sa Br.m. and Roger Andersson 14 Segregation by household composition and income across multiple spatial scales 239 Ann Owens 15 Middle-class family encounters and the role of micro-publics for cross-social interaction 254 Heike Hanh.rster and Sabine Weck 16 Socioeconomic segregation and the middle classes in Paris, Rio de Janeiro and S.o Paulo: a comparative perspective 270 Edmond Pr.teceille and Adalberto Cardoso 17 Segregation and the urban rich: enclaves, networks and mobilities 289 Rowland Atkinson and Hang Kei Ho 18 The impact of gentrification on social and ethnic segregation 306 Wouter van Gent and Cody Hochstenbach 19 Vertical social differentiation as segregation in spatial proximity 325 Thomas Maloutas 20 Residential stratification and segmentation in the hyper-vertical city 346 Ray Forrest, Ka Sik Tong and Weijia Wang PART III MEASURING AND CONCEPTUALISING SEGREGATION: METHODS, APPROACHES AND DEBATES 21 Understanding the processes of changing segregation 367 Nick Bailey 22 Integrating infrastructure and accessibility in measures of bespoke neighbourhoods 378 John .sth and Umut Türk 23 On the meaning and measurement of the ghetto as a form of segregation 395 Alan Walks EPILOGUE 24 Towards further understanding of urban segregation 411 Sako Musterd Index 425

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores the foundations of the smart city and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the smart city concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics.Chapters highlight how existing digital infrastructures can be coupled with emerging ones, so that they can provide increased efficiency and performance, with an ultimate objective of rendering safer, more sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, aligning with the needs of the SDGs. The book also covers emerging technologies and concepts, such as 6G and the ’15-minute city’, underlining how these can develop within smart city frameworks.This is an invigorating look into the concept of the smart city and how it can be improved and rethought, making it useful for urban studies and human geography academics and researchers. It also offers helpful insights for policy makers and planners on how to increase the quality of life in modern cities.Trade Review'Rethinking Smart Cities offers a refreshing and insightful survey of the increasingly popular concept of “smart cities” It surveys the concept’s evolution before critiquing the scope and offering contemporary warnings about the biases and assumptions embedded in this idea that is pervading much of our Western-informed city and regional planning literature and practice today.' -- David S Jones, Monash University and Griffith University, Australia‘In the post-COVID world, humanity needs new models of understanding positive urbanization such as the “15-minute city”. Allam and Takun argue for using technology to implement the human-scale city, not to replace it with a totalitarian dystopia. Massive collection of data can be used either to enhance the human experience, or to control the population.’ -- Nikos A. Salingaros, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. What is a smart city? Understanding the concept beyond a tech-centric approach 2. The underlying and basic foundations of the smart city: where do artificial intelligence, machine learning and other buzz words fit in the narrative? 3. Smart cities must be sustainable and inclusive cities 4. Smart cities as an urban regeneration avenue: redefining the efficiency and performance of cities 5. The paradox of safety within data-driven smart cities 6. Enter 6G and the augmented smart city 7. The emergence of a new urban proximity-based morphology: the 15-minute city and the smart city 8. Future smart and autonomous cities: an overview towards future trends Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Authoritative and multidisciplinary in approach, this Research Agenda shapes questions that will underpin future legal and empirical scholarly inquiry on zoning and land use regulation in the US. Building on existing debates and providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of academic research, it identifies the gaps which need addressing in future research.Bringing together a diverse array of prominent voices across multiple disciplines, A Research Agenda for US Land Use and Planning Law adeptly navigates central themes including the structure of land use regulation, the relationship between zoning and planning, and the role of different levels of government and administrative agencies. Chapters critically analyse the laws that govern public participation alongside the potential reforms to these processes. A number of pressing issues are rigorously examined, including housing, historic preservation, sustainability and climate change, transportation, declining cities, residential segregation, and the relationship between private and public land use controls.This accessible and progressive Research Agenda will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students interested in planning, zoning, urban economics, property law, environmental law, legal studies, and political science. Practitioners looking for insightful analysis of seminal literature will similarly find this to be a beneficial read.Trade Review‘This superb book, edited by prominent land use law professors Infranca and Schindler, features a “who’s who” of academic authorities who thoughtfully tackle today’s salient issues of land use law and planning in highly readable and stimulating prose. This book belongs on the shelves of all land use scholars and practitioners.’ -- Jerold S. Kayden, Harvard University, US‘At a time when the stakes could not be higher for how our built environment shapes our economy and society, John Infranca and Sarah Schindler have gathered a remarkable group of scholars to map the complex dynamics defining contemporary land-use and planning law, making a compelling argument for the value of research to navigate the challenging paths ahead.’ -- Nestor Davidson, Fordham University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Themes and Trends in land use and planning law research 1 PART I STRUCTURE OF LAND USE AND PLANNING LAW 1 The role of planning 47 Nicholas J. Marantz 2 The role of the states 59 Moira O’Neill 3 The structure of land use administration 75 Noah M. Kazis PART II PROCESS OF LAND USE AND PLANNING LAW 4 Public participation 93 Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick, and Maxwell Palmer 5 The law’s effects on public participation 109 Vicki Been and Anika Singh Lemar PART III EFFECTS OF LAND USE AND PLANNING LAW 6 Rethinking local regulations governing housing production 133 Ingrid Gould Ellen, Yonah Freemark and Jenny Schuetz 7 Land use regulation and residential segregation 153 Paavo Monkkonen and Michael Lens 8 Sustainable land use policy and planning 171 Sarah Fox 9 Climate-conscious land use planning 187 Danielle Stokes 10 Historic preservation law 203 Sara C. Bronin 11 First principles in transportation law and policy 221 Jonathan Levine and Gregory H. Shill 12 Downtown revitalization and declining cities 237 Justin B. Hollander 13 Private land use controls 253 Christopher Serkin 14 American land-use and planning law in comparative European perspective 265 Sonia A. Hirt Index

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Book SynopsisThe application of technology, in smart cities, to create meaningful sustainability is set to change all our lives. The smart city of the future will be equipped with communication infrastructures to improve the comfort of all citizens, while respecting the environment, and supporting good governance. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) will play a key role, making it possible to better manage infrastructure and transport. Contributors from around the world here present modern insights for use by decision-makers to solve real-world challenges. The authors shed light on forthcoming developments and set out how to plan for increasingly rapid changes. Smart Cities for Sustainability: Approaches and Solutions provides a modern insight for researchers, students, professionals, and decision-makers on the application of digitalization in global cities to achieve their SDG goals.Table of ContentsPART I: Smart cities and technologies Chapter 1. Post Pandemic Urban Planning and Use of Information Technologies in Smart Cities; Seher Konak Chapter 2. Smart Destinations and Eco-Friendly Practices; Cenk Murat Koçoğlu, Burak Pınaroğlu, and Emrah Yaşarsoy Chapter 3. Alternative model of living: Smart ecocities; Beyza Hatırnaz, Dilek Demirer, and Emrah Özkul Chapter 4. Urban Transport Solutions for a Sustainable and Smart Mobility Future: Macro-Environmental Analysis; Marwa Ben Ali and Ghada Boukettaya Chapter 5. Evaluation of Smart City Projects in Eco-Gastronomy Dimension: The Example of Turkey; Fatih Varol, Merve Oksuz and Eren Yalcın Chapter 6. Blue-Green Smart U-Cities via Clean Technologies: Towards High Sustainable, and Low Greenhouse Gases Emissions Urban Areas; Hamid Doost Mohammadian Chapter 7. DRMM and Comprehensive Global Blue-Green Clean Sustainable Urban Mobility Risk Mitigation Plan for Mapping Future Smart Cities through the 5th Wave Theory; Hamid Doost Mohammadian PART II. Digitalization and Sustainability Chapter 8. Eco-City Tourism in Smart Cities for Sustainability; Burcu Kıvılcım Zorba Chapter 9. Smart Tourism Destinations and Digitalization of Cultural Heritage for Sustainability; Nil Sonuç and Seda Süer Chapter 10. Recent Developments in the Evaluation of Renewable Energy Resources in Tourism Businesses: A Literature Review Based on Bibliometric and Content Analysis; Metin Sürme and Dilara Bahtıyar Sarı Chapter 11. Urban 6.0 and Utopia Concepts via Sustainable, Clean, Inclusive, Innovative & U-Mobility through the Theory of Comprehensive Everything; Hamid Doost Mohammadian Chapter 12. Mapping Future Urban Plan– towards Blue-Green Smart City & Mobility through the 5th Wave, i-Sustainability Plus, & DCT Theories; Hamid Doost Mohammadian

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Book SynopsisUrban Alchemy delves into the pressing challenges and unique opportunities facing developing countries in their quest for sustainable urban transformation. Readers are introduced to a comprehensive framework designed to guide policymakers, urban planners, and scholars in reimagining the future of cities.

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Book SynopsisThe Global Smart City: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age is a ground-breaking exploration of the transformative impact of smart cities in today's urban landscape. Through a comprehensive analysis of smart city projects, this study sheds light on the urban, economic, and competitive outcomes of integrating new technologies. Divided into two parts, this in-depth study provides fresh insights into the ongoing smart city debate. In Part 1, author Filippo Marchesani explores the internal implementation of smart city projects, analyzing digital implementation, the dimensions of smart cities, and the geographic factors influencing their adoption. Drawing on international contributions and primary research across various disciplines, such as digital technologies, architecture, economics, regional studies, and innovation, this section fills a crucial gap in the academic debate, offering a comprehensive theoretical and analytical foundation. Part 2 shifts focus to the urban, economic, and competitive outcomes of smart city initiatives, employing a multidisciplinary approach. It examines the tangible effects of these projects on the urban environment, economic landscape, and overall city attractiveness, utilizing real-world examples and data-driven methodologies. The Global Smart City: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age is essential reading for policymakers, urban planners, technologists, academics, and anyone interested in the dynamic changes unfolding in our cities and society. With his unique interdisciplinary perspective and wealth of research, Marchesani offers a comprehensive exploration of smart cities, empowering readers to embrace the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introducing and Understanding Smart Cities Part One. Internal Implementation of Smart City Ecosystems Chapter 2. Digital Implementation in the Smart City Ecosystem Chapter 3. Orchestrating the Implementation of the Smart City Chapter 4. Geographic Patterns in Smart City Implementation Part Two. Urban, Economic, and Competitive Outcomes of the Smart City Projects Chapter 5. Urban Environment in the Smart City Chapter 6. Economic and Business Environment in the Smart City Chapter 7. Urban Attractiveness and the Competitive Edge of the Smart City Chapter 8. Navigating the Smart Cities: Conclusions and Final Remarks

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative book, ten executive politicians with backgrounds in planning from around the world dissect their own political careers. Reflecting on the often structural impact of their work in political decision-making, they also consider the translation of their experiences back into academic life or professional practice. These revealing stories illustrate the vital role of planners in politics. Specific examples show how they were able to make a difference during their tenure by defining problems, setting agendas, using different catalyst for change and raising awareness of issues around sustainability, equity, social justice, poverty and power. Drawing on these experiences to argue for innovative pedagogies and practices in planning, this book illuminates the frequently invisible work of planners in politics, the benefits of their training and education, and the wisdom that they can offer theorists, students and practitioners about transformative planning. This book will be critical reading for researchers and students of spatial planning, urban geography and politics. Urban planners and politicians will also benefit from these insights into the political experience of planning. Contributors include: Y. Alagh, L. Albrechts, A. Balducci, A. Barbanente, A. da Rosa Pires, D. De Leo, J. Ferrão, A. Hagen, J. Lerner, E. Maricato, M. Sutcliffe, G. Tanaka, J. ThrogmortonTrade Review‘The book provides a very refreshing way to deal with the politics of plan making and plan implementation. Interesting stories of planners successfully making a difference through political insti- tutions make this book an engaging read for academics, practitioners and students, and therefore it is highly recommended.’ -- Anubandh Hambarde, Town Planning Review‘The book makes important contributions in a number of ways, from a deeper understanding of the “black box” of explicitly political decision-making in multiple sociopolitical contexts to heartening stories of the ways in which planning skills and expertise can be useful in navigating the intricacies of the political sphere.’ -- Christopher Maidment, Planning Theory‘I urge planning academics, students, and practitioners who are convinced of the crucial role planning can and should play in good governance and who are committed to making full use of the discipline in the production of a just and equitable society to read this book.’ -- Wes Grooms, Journal of the American Planning Association‘The volume is a very accessible and engaging journey into the inner wonderings of prestigious planning scholars facing the daily challenges of policymaking. The book reveals the original ways in which expert planners have dealt with these dilemmas.’ -- Federico Savini, Planning Theory and Practice‘I recommend this book to those seeking to understand better how planning theory influences planning-related decisions and how planning practice is brought in planning education through planners’ experience. Evans and Cvitanovic (2018) claim that many academics wish to support policymaking but may not know where to start; Planners in Politics provides a sound and detailed starting point for planners.’ -- Eduardo Oliveira, European Planning Studies‘By focussing on individuals from around the world who have been both Politicians and Planners this book demystifies the worlds of Politicians as well as Planners and offer real life glimpses of collaboration as well as contestation between the two domains of social action. A must read for those who want to understand how to establish trust between Politicians and Planners which is essential for effective practice.’ -- Bish Sanyal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘What happens when planners become politicians? Based on a collection of biographical narratives of planning academics who became politicians, this book provides rich insight from diverse situations, while revealing some common themes. It will be a valuable resource for all those interested in how planning ideas, values and skills fare when advanced from political positions.' -- Patsy Healey, Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 The challenge to make a difference 2 Louis Albrechts PART II NATIONAL LEVEL 2 A favourable correlation of forces: the best possible base for an academic in government in Brazil 11 Ermínia Maricato and Giselle Tanaka 3 Indian planning circa 2018 and past experience: did experts make a difference? 37 Yoginder K. Alagh 4 From policy-scientist to science-informed politician. Combining territorial imaginaries, external circumstances and domestic possibilities 55 João Ferrão PART III REGIONAL LEVEL 5 Finding spaces for innovation in regional planning practices through enabling and contrasting actions 76 Angela Barbanente 6 Valuing and reframing knowledge production processes 99 Artur da Rosa Pires PART IV CITY LEVEL 7 Of architects, mayors and Curitiba: a tale of a Brazilian city 122 Jaime Lerner 8 Struggling to make a difference: fighting the apartheid racial order in local governance and planning 147 Michael Sutcliffe 9 Storytelling and city crafting in a contested age: one mayor’s practice story 174 James A. Throgmorton 10 Forty years as a politician with a background in planning. How did this affect me as politician and as a planner? 198 Aksel Hagen 11 Governing planning in Milan 224 Alessandro Balducci PART V REFLECTIONS AND LESSONS LEARNED 12 Prof(ass)essori , politics and planning: lessons learned for making a difference 242 Daniela De Leo 13 From the limits of planning to political engagement 259 Louis Albrechts Index 277

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Book SynopsisOffering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifestations of new capital cities, as well as the everyday experiences of those living there, to shed light on planning processes, outcomes and contemporary planning issues. Chapters explore seven geographically, culturally and temporally diverse capital cities across Australia, India, Brazil, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Myanmar and South Korea. Pojani argues that new capital cities have embodied patriarchal systems to govern their respective polities which has magnified problems in these cities. The book highlights how in new capitals, notions such as the state, the nation, urbanism, religion, the economy and even nature have been conceived of or treated in patriarchal terms, to the detriment of women and other disadvantaged groups.This book will be an invigorating read for urban studies and planning scholars. The information about the processes of new city formation will also be of great use to urban planners.Trade Review‘Another recent book by Dorina Pojani, Trophy Cities, is relentlessly critical of the underlying gender bias that undergirds these ventures. As its subtitle proclaims, she offers “a feminist perspective on new capitals.” She documents “the patriarchal character of most nationalisms,” including the male-led predilection to found new capitals. Importantly, this intersectional feminist lens centres “not only gender by also class, race, ethnicity, religion and other systems of domination.”’ -- Lawrence J. Vale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US‘In Trophy Cities, Dorina Pojani offers a much-needed feminist analysis of the planning of capital cities across the globe. With a diverse set of case cities and an abundance of well-researched examples from them, this book makes a significant contribution and offers a fresh perspective to our understanding of cities, how we plan them, and with what consequences. The book, or select chapters, would be excellent additions to include in cities and urbanization courses, as well as feminist theory courses. Pojani’s accessible writing style makes the book suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students, as well as policymakers and practitioners. This book challenges us to re-evaluate the traditional and dominant planning paradigms and envision something different - something better.’ -- Megan E Heim La Frombois, Journal of the American Planning Association‘Feminism is not only about political representation or economic freedom, it is also about liberating our cities from only the pursuit of capital and making them the sites of play and community, about freeing all people in the way they occupy space and live out their daily lives, about giving dignity to the lived experience. Trophy Cities is a bold proposal for planning our cities around people and not money, for prioritizing joy over wealth. I'll be thinking about it for some time to come.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: why a feminist perspective on new capital cities? 2. New capitals in the context of national history and international relations 3. The spatial manifestation of new capitals 4. The symbolic manifestation of new capitals 5. The capital as an everyday city 6. Conclusion: what would a feminist capital look like? Reference Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting social innovation initiatives that emerged from organized citizenry in Southern European cities, this book explores the response to austerity policies implemented after the 2008 economic crisis. Chapters look at the common aim of these initiatives in responding to social needs and challenging social exclusion. Social Innovation and Urban Governance offers an empirically informed theoretical discussion on the scope of citizen action when members of civil society or emancipator social movements organise to contribute to local democratic governance and to enlarge the reach of social welfare. Contributions highlight how, starting from innovative actions in individual urban neighbourhoods, social actors created opportunities for participation in society and organised from below to collaborate with local institutions in 'bottom-linked' forms of governance. A timely exploration of the importance of social innovation in urban settings, this is a useful book for scholars of urban studies as well as sociology and human geography. It will also be an insightful read for urban policy-makers. Contributors include: A.B. Cano Hila, F. Díaz Orueta, S. Eizaguirre Anglada, M. García Cabeza, L. García Ferrando, M.L. Lourés Seoane, M. Pradel I Miquel, R. Ruiz SolaTrade Review'Can social innovation be a trigger for governance change and political transformation in cities? That is the key question this book attempts to answer. This is undoubtedly the most pressing issue in contemporary urban praxis for those concerned with questions of urban democracy and social equality. And this book is a formidable achievement in charting the possibilities of social innovation to nurture urban transformation.' --Erik Swyngedouw, The University of Manchester, UK'Using Spanish cities as an empirical lens to understand how south European cities reacted to the 2008 crisis, this important book unveils how governance arrangements can change through the transformative potential of social movements and under which conditions civil society can be a driver of social innovation.' --Yuri Kazepov, University of Vienna, Austria'This book is a valuable and timely contribution of comparative urban research. Although the chapters in this volume are focused primarily upon the intense conflicts over the meanings of citizenship, governmental authority, and social change in Southern Europe, the research reported is relevant to the countless other places in the world that are experiencing rapid social change.' --Dennis R. Judd, University of Illinois at Chicago, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Social innovation in Southern European cities: local governance and citizen practices: Spanish cities as an illustration Marisol García, Ana Cano Hila and Marc Pradel 2. Methodological observations for the study of social innovation initiatives and their role in urban governance dynamics. Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada 3. Social Exclusion and the neighbourhood: the impact of the 2008 financial crisis and austerity policies in Spanish cities in the context of Southern Europe Ana Cano, Raúl Ruíz and Lídia García 4. Large cities and the crisis of democracy: modes of engagement between new social initiatives and local governments. Fernando Díaz Orueta and María Luisa Lourés Seoane 5. Barcelona: towards new forms of institutionalising civil society and social innovation initiatives? Ana Belén Cano and Marc Pradel 6. Citizen-led and civil society social transformation: democratic empowerment and co-production of community policies in Bilbao. Santiago Eizaguirre Anglada 7. New forms of collective action and local government: from 15-M to the Ahora Madrid government Fernando Díaz Orueta and Maria Luisa Lourés Seoane 8. Zaragoza: the socially inclusive and institutionally innovative city Marisol García and Lidia García Ferrando Conclusions Marc Pradel, Ana Belén Cano and Marisol García Index

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Book SynopsisA political scientist and an urban architect explore China's odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions is the first book-length study combining analysis of politics and power, urban design and planning issues derived from the co-authors' interdisciplinary research, and on-site fieldwork from their political science and architectural area specialties. Begun in 1986, little-known policy actions have taken shape in the building of 285 eco-cities--and growing. What are the driving forces of these innovative developments? How is China going about converting its teeming urban areas into replicable and showcase cities? Can these new policy initiatives overcome the damage done to its air, waterways, and land, while significantly reducing public health dangers to its inhabitants? In searching for means for the People s Republic of China to take the next step from eco-cities to sustainable city-regions, the co-authors assess the potential success of China's present course and offer key recommendations for Chinese political leaders, urban planners, and citizen stakeholders to make the transition to a sustainable future for its people and the rest of the world. The primary market for this book will be eco-researchers, Asian studies scholars and teachers, eco- and urban architects, environmental and urban policy professionals, and advanced undergraduates in environmental and sustainability studies or sciences programs. The interdisciplinary reach and critical framework of analysis will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in Chinese ecological strides and seeking a critical assessment of its potential.Trade Review‘Overall, this book provides good insights into China’s sustainability effort, the development logic, and various controversies in China’s eco-park development. The various cases provide a vivid view of how Chinese cities search for their path in ecological modernization and the bumpy roads they experienced when attempting to transplant the sustainability concept into the local soil. It can be used as a textbook for under-graduates or graduates to understand sustainability debates and its operationalization process in different political-economic-societal contexts. It can also provide researchers on sustainability and eco-park development with rich information and provocative reflections on the global sustainability debate.’ -- Yawei Chen, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to urban architectural design as an opportunity for informed collective activism over time.’ -- Robert J Koester, The Plan Journal‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to achieve highly-integrative systemic performance at the scale of the City-as-a-Hill and its surrounding rural partner land. No less, it provides the means for the ambitious sustainability interests of the Chinese party-state to achieve global recognition for becoming a social and environmentally integrated ecological civilization.’ -- Robert J. Koester, Ball State University, US'From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions by Ernest J. Yanarella and Richard S. Levine deserves to be widely read. General readers, China specialists, environmental scientists, and policy makers alike will gain insight into current sustainability concepts and practices around the world, be drawn into a case study approach to China's environmental challenges, and benefit from the well balanced analysis of China's efforts, complications, achievements, and failures to address those challenges through the creation of sustainable city-regions.' --Terry Bodenhorn, (Retired) Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Director of the Library, and Professor of Modern Chinese History, Shantou University, China 2010-2019'Yanarella and Levine bring a needed focus on the term ''eco-cities,'' taking it further to ''sustainable city-regions.'' They draw on their detailed knowledge of China's exploration of eco-cities as part of an ecological civilization. This book is an important assessment of a key aspect of transitioning to a sustainable future.' --Haydn Washington, author of What Can I Do to Help Heal the Environmental Crisis?Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: China’s Eco-cities and Bid to Become an Eco-Civilization 1. Theoretical Foundations of the Sustainable City-Region 2. Eco-city Development Strategy in Beijing and China’s Cities: Top-down/Bottom-up Dynamics 3. Suzhou, Wuxi and China’s Twenty-first Century Eco-city Program: From Austerity Ecology to Eco-scientific Plenty 4. New Kunming/Chenggong Eco-District: City Surrounding the Countryside? 5. Shantou: A Metropolitan Coastal Garden-City in the Making? 6. Beyond the Dongtan Debacle: Tianjin and Global Showcase Urban Sustainability Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiscussing the ongoing and future challenges of EU Cohesion Policy, this book critically addresses the economic, social and territorial challenges at the heart of the EU‘s policy. It identifies the multifaceted and dynamic nature of the policy as well as the interlinkage with other policies and considers unresolved questions of strategic importance in territorial governance, urban and regional inequalities, and social aspects and well-being.Interdisciplinary perspectives offer well-founded historical views, conceptual thoughts, policy insights and empirical analyses of EU Cohesion Policy, exploring under-represented territorial and spatial perspectives. Fostering a long term, visionary debate, the book looks into the controversial aspects of the policy. It concludes with a rich synthesis of the debate, emphasising three key concerns: disintegration as an alternative to the eroding idea of greater European integration; the discontent of cities and regions due to widening inequalities; and the discretion of member states which prevents the EU from engaging more deeply with social issues.With commentaries on each of the key areas provided by top scholars, this book will be an invigorating read for EU policy makers keen to gain a more critical understanding of key issues around territorial, social and economic cohesion. It will also be an insightful read for economic geography, spatial planning, political science, international relations, European studies and social science scholars in general.Trade Review‘The EU continues to lead the world in initiatives to promote cohesion, reduce socio-economic disparities between core and periphery, promote the Paris agreement, and advance sustainable development agendas through deliberate, evidence-based governance processes. This volume helps to make sense of the sometimes bewildering stream of new policies, debates, and achievements, while paying close attention to growing challenges of ‘disintegration, discontent, and discretion‘ that threaten progress. This fascinating and unflinching analysis of EU cohesion policies deserves a wide readership.‘Table of ContentsContents: Preface xix 1 EU Cohesion Policy and European spatial governance: an introduction to territorial, economic and social challenges 1 Franziska Sielker, Daniel Rauhut and Alois Humer 2 EU Cohesion Policy: the past, the present and the future 17 Philip McCann and Raquel Ortega-Argilés PART A TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE 3 Territorial governance aspects in the EU’s Cohesion Policy: an introduction 27 Alois Humer and Daniel Rauhut 4 Spatial framing within EU Cohesion Policy and spatial planning: towards functional and soft spaces, yet on different paths 31 Eva Purkarthofer and Peter Schmitt 5 Cohesion Policy as a driver of Europeanisation: a comparative analysis 48 Giancarlo Cotella and Marcin Dąbrowski 6 Territorial cohesion and the sea: experiences from European maritime spatial planning 66 John Moodie, Franziska Sielker and David Goldsborough 7 Urban Policy in European Cohesion Policy 83 Karsten Zimmermann and Rob Atkinson 8 European (dis)integration: implications for the EUropean Cohesion Policy 98 Estelle Evrard and Tobias Chilla 9 Commentary: complex EU cohesion and ‘integration mark 2’ 115 Andreas Faludi PART B URBAN AND REGIONAL INEQUALITIES 10 Urban and regional inequality aspects of the EU’s Cohesion Policy: an introduction 124 Franziska Sielker and Alois Humer 11 Territorial cohesion, polycentrism and regional disparities: revisiting an unsolved debate 127 Evert Meijers and Krister Sandberg 12 Can the EU Cohesion Policy fight peripheralization? 142 Júlia A. Nagy and József Benedek 13 Does Cohesion Policy affect territorial inequalities and regional development? 156 Lionel Védrine and Julie Le Gallo 14 Smart specialisation, peripheries and the EU Cohesion Policy 171 Cristina Serbanica 15 What regions benefit from the post-2009-crisis Cohesion Policy? Evidence from a Territorial Cohesion Development Index 185 Daniel Rauhut and Nuno Marques da Costa 16 Commentary: urban and regional inequalities and the architecture of EU Cohesion Policy 199 Tomasz Komornicki PART C SOCIAL ASPECTS AND WELLBEING 17 Social aspects in the EU’s Cohesion Policy: an introduction 208 Daniel Rauhut and Franziska Sielker 18 EU Cohesion Policy: towards grounded cities and regions 216 Yvonne Franz and Alois Humer 19 Mobility in the Danube Region: the role of transnational cooperation in addressing challenges of migration 230 Elisabeth Gruber and Ádám Németh 20 Between markets and social rights: confused EU housing policies 244 Iván Tosics and Simone Tulumello 21 Commentary: social issues and wellbeing in the EU – challenges for Cohesion Policy 260 Eduarda Marques da Costa PART D CONCLUDING REMARKS 22 Unsettled questions of disintegration, discontent and discretion 272 Alois Humer, Daniel Rauhut and Franziska Sielker Afterword: territorial cohesion, a never-ending academic challenge? 276 Klaus R. Kunzmann Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Offering fresh insights into the key emerging issues in the field, including the changing socio-economic contexts brought about by the rise of the millennial generation and the creative class, the Covid-19 pandemic, and a greater emphasis on social responsibility, this forward-looking Research Agenda critically debates and rethinks theories and practices in the property sector. Promoting interdisciplinary approaches to the topic, chapters explore the disruptive changes to the field brought about by technological revolutions, before moving on to reflect upon the meaning of value, risks and investment behaviours, and finally examining the institutional contexts and stakeholders that shape the industry. Leading scholars combine practice with in-depth theoretical discussions, highlighting critical future avenues of research in the field.Real estate, planning and economics scholars will find this to be an important read, particularly with the blend of conceptual and empirical perspectives. Real estate practitioners and businesses will also find the practical guidance and discussion of real-life challenges in the book helpful.Trade Review‘This book proposes a multi-disciplinary approach to real estate research and collects essays written from different backgrounds. Those who pursue a multi-disciplinary approach should find this book inspiring.’ -- Charles Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong KongTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Real Estate 1 Piyush Tiwari and Julie T. Miao PART I DISRUPTIVE CHANGES: TECHNOLOGIES AND SPACES 2 Market disruptions and the future trends in real estate: what do we not know? 19 Piyush Tiwari and Jyoti Shukla 3 Interface of property and knowledge-based economic development 41 Julie T. Miao 4 Future directions of research in innovative workplaces 59 Eileen Sim 5 Housing share: opportunities and challenges for interdisciplinary research 81 Djordje Stojanovic PART II VALUES: INVESTMENT AND RISKS 6 Market value in a sea of values: re-examining the ‘theory of value’ of land and property through the lens of ‘capability theory’ 99 Jyoti Shukla and Mike McDermott 7 Circular economy in the real estate sector 121 Ashish Gupta and Piyush Tiwari 8 Climate change and risk to real estate 139 Georgia Warren-Myers and Anna Hurlimann 9 The confluence of real estate and infrastructure: a research agenda 167 Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala PART III INSTITUTIONS: BEHAVIOURS, GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN ACTORS 10 Local community in brownfield redevelopment: the Alphington Paper Mill Project in Melbourne 185 Xuqing Li, Hao Wu and Huiying (Cynthia) Hou 11 International real estate investments: issues and research agendas 205 Hyung Min Kim 12 Neoliberalization in urban governance at the real estate turn: perspective from urban redevelopment in China 227 Xiang Li 13 Institutional governance of innovation adoption in residential developments: future research directions 247 Godwin Kavaarpuo Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and other issues, Chris Hamnett discusses research into the socio-economic causes and effects of gentrification in a variety of cities worldwide. Key features include: A detailed examination of both contemporary and historical sources Exploration of the history, geography and development of gentrification and some of its more recent forms Chapters covering a selection of central topics including urban displacement and social class change. Composed of succinct but highly informative chapters, this engaging Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for urban geography, urban studies and planning students as well as scholars with a particular interest in urban sociology and social policy.Trade Review‘Like a fine Islay single malt scotch, this volume is a rewarding distillation. It is both a literature review and a compilation of his first-hand observations not only in the UK, but in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and China. Indeed, this volume might qualify as Professor Hamnett’s magnum opus on the subject. This volume concentrates a sweeping analysis of the gentrification literature in an accessible and readable format. Faculty, as well as students, are likely to find it a compelling desk reference, of value to neophytes as well as grizzled scholars in the social sciences, geography, urban planning, and public policy. Hamnett’s meaty reference list alone is worth the price of this valuable book.’ -- Dennis E Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In this book, Chris Hamnett, a key figure in gentrification studies, offers a succinct yet sophisticated overview of this classical topic which abounds with heated debates and lasting vitality. Situating gentrification in wider urban processes, Hamnett aptly engages with the long-running debates on its causes and explanations, evolution and demographic changes, socio-spatial implications and future trends, with a historical perspective and global outlook. This book is an insightful read for anyone interested in gentrification and broader urban transformations.’ -- Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, China‘Chris Hamnett, a world authority on gentrification, masterfully illuminates the history and geography of gentrification research. This remarkable book is a lucid introduction to this classic topic as well as an advanced and insightful reflection on cutting-edge issues, heated debates and the future agenda.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Hamnett’s book on gentrification clarifies and contextualizes a complex, long-lasting and animated debate in academia and beyond. Gentrification will most probably continue to reshape cities in favor of those who can afford its impact and against those who cannot. Is the significance and the global reach of gentrification growing and is its social imprint and spatial form changing? Robust and clear arguments make this book an essential read for urban scholars and students and for anyone interested in the social dimensions of cities.’ -- Thomas Maloutas, Emeritus Professor of Social Geography and Thematic Chartography, Harokopio University, Greece‘Chris Hamnett has long been a central figure in the development of gentrification research. Here he provides a magisterial and lucid overview of a literature that continues to address vital problems for urban scholarship and social policy. That this small book can cover so much of this territory is a tribute to Hamnett’s informed judgment of empirical trends, conceptual arguments and policy consequences.’ -- David Ley, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada‘Building on a lifetime experience and study of gentrification, Chris Hamnett has written an authoritative and comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Gentrification. This compelling text covers the essential elements of the widening process of gentrification and related urban social class transformation debates. Both “time” and “space” variations of gentrification and changing meanings of the concept receive ample attention while theories, causes and effects are critically addressed as well. This book is essential reading for all who are involved in gentrification.’ -- Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to gentrification 2. Definitions, forms, history and geography 3. Causation, explanation and theory: capital, class, culture and the state 4. Gentrification and the changing social-class structure of cities 5. Gentrification, displacement and replacement 6. Global gentrification or category imperialism? 7. Conclusion: the future of gentrification References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and other issues, Chris Hamnett discusses research into the socio-economic causes and effects of gentrification in a variety of cities worldwide. Key features include: A detailed examination of both contemporary and historical sources Exploration of the history, geography and development of gentrification and some of its more recent forms Chapters covering a selection of central topics including urban displacement and social class change. Composed of succinct but highly informative chapters, this engaging Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for urban geography, urban studies and planning students as well as scholars with a particular interest in urban sociology and social policy.Trade Review‘Like a fine Islay single malt scotch, this volume is a rewarding distillation. It is both a literature review and a compilation of his first-hand observations not only in the UK, but in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and China. Indeed, this volume might qualify as Professor Hamnett’s magnum opus on the subject. This volume concentrates a sweeping analysis of the gentrification literature in an accessible and readable format. Faculty, as well as students, are likely to find it a compelling desk reference, of value to neophytes as well as grizzled scholars in the social sciences, geography, urban planning, and public policy. Hamnett’s meaty reference list alone is worth the price of this valuable book.’ -- Dennis E Gale, Journal of Urban Affairs‘In this book, Chris Hamnett, a key figure in gentrification studies, offers a succinct yet sophisticated overview of this classical topic which abounds with heated debates and lasting vitality. Situating gentrification in wider urban processes, Hamnett aptly engages with the long-running debates on its causes and explanations, evolution and demographic changes, socio-spatial implications and future trends, with a historical perspective and global outlook. This book is an insightful read for anyone interested in gentrification and broader urban transformations.’ -- Shenjing He, The University of Hong Kong, China‘Chris Hamnett, a world authority on gentrification, masterfully illuminates the history and geography of gentrification research. This remarkable book is a lucid introduction to this classic topic as well as an advanced and insightful reflection on cutting-edge issues, heated debates and the future agenda.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK‘Hamnett’s book on gentrification clarifies and contextualizes a complex, long-lasting and animated debate in academia and beyond. Gentrification will most probably continue to reshape cities in favor of those who can afford its impact and against those who cannot. Is the significance and the global reach of gentrification growing and is its social imprint and spatial form changing? Robust and clear arguments make this book an essential read for urban scholars and students and for anyone interested in the social dimensions of cities.’ -- Thomas Maloutas, Emeritus Professor of Social Geography and Thematic Chartography, Harokopio University, Greece‘Chris Hamnett has long been a central figure in the development of gentrification research. Here he provides a magisterial and lucid overview of a literature that continues to address vital problems for urban scholarship and social policy. That this small book can cover so much of this territory is a tribute to Hamnett’s informed judgment of empirical trends, conceptual arguments and policy consequences.’ -- David Ley, Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada‘Building on a lifetime experience and study of gentrification, Chris Hamnett has written an authoritative and comprehensive Advanced Introduction to Gentrification. This compelling text covers the essential elements of the widening process of gentrification and related urban social class transformation debates. Both “time” and “space” variations of gentrification and changing meanings of the concept receive ample attention while theories, causes and effects are critically addressed as well. This book is essential reading for all who are involved in gentrification.’ -- Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to gentrification 2. Definitions, forms, history and geography 3. Causation, explanation and theory: capital, class, culture and the state 4. Gentrification and the changing social-class structure of cities 5. Gentrification, displacement and replacement 6. Global gentrification or category imperialism? 7. Conclusion: the future of gentrification References Index

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Book SynopsisCompelling and engaging, this Handbook on Shrinking Cities addresses the fundamentals of shrinkage, exploring its causal factors, the ways in which planning strategies and policies are steered, and innovative solutions for revitalising shrinking cities. It analyses the multidimensional phenomena involved in processes of shrinkage, where cities experience a dramatic decline in their economic and social bases.Offering a timely response to the endurance of decline in cities across the globe, contributions from top scholars showcase a wide range of perspectives on the ongoing challenges of shrinkage. Chapters cover topics of ‘governance’, ‘greening’ and ‘right-sizing’, and ‘regrowth’, laying the relevant groundwork for the Handbook’s proposals for dealing with shrinkage in the age of COVID-19 and beyond. Leading experts in the fields of urban and regional development contribute novel ideas pertinent to the future of shrinking cities, considering factors such as economic prosperity, liveability, social stability, and innovation, ultimately representing a paradigmatic shift from growth-centred planning to the notion of ‘shrinking sustainably’.In suggesting strategies to reverse decline and generate newer, more robust development, this prescient Handbook will prove beneficial to scholars of human geography and urban planning. The wide range of case studies will also make this a vital read for planning practitioners.Trade Review‘This excellent collection includes insightful reviews of current research, recently implemented projects and policies, and analyses of emerging topics chiefly from the European experience are supplemented with examples from North America, Japan, and Mexico. This book gathers excellent studies of a range of programmes including regrowth, shrinking smart, green innovation, infrastructure, complemented with chapters on governance, social capital, and relevant social issues. Chapters on the epistemology of urban shrinkage research and current debates on terminology amplify the significance of this volume. This timely book offers an invaluable resource for researchers, policy-makers in Europe and other world regions who are seeking examples of good programmes and policies to manage urban shrinkage. It should be of interest to researchers and policy-makers interested in the practical experience of managing urban shrinkage, and those interested in theoretical debates about shrinkage, governance, and new topics that require further explorations. -- Chung-Tong Wu, University of Sydney, Australia‘Our cities represent very comprehensive social ecosystems – a mosaic consisting of diverse structures interlinked by the veins of infrastructure shaped by multiple actions of various actors. The Handbook on Shrinking Cities, edited by Karina Pallagst, Marco Bontje, Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot and René Fleschurz presents a similar picture. This is a book in which the synergy between chapters written by numerous authors creates a multi-faceted picture of shrinking cities and which will be of interest to a wide range of readers.’ -- Maros Finka, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and President of the AESOP‘With COVID-19 upending traditional patterns of urban living, some shrinking cities may be facing unique opportunities for revitalization and prosperity. This wonderful collection of essays from established and new scholars combines multi-disciplinary expertise to propose innovative ideas and planning strategies for shrinking cities around the world.’ -- Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, UCLA, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv Introduction: shrinking cities research in times of COVID-19 1 Karina Pallagst and Patricia M.I. Hammer PART I CONCEPTUALISING SHRINKING SMART 1 The language of shrinking cities: terminology and translation to describe a new urban regime 9 Emmanuèle Cunningham Sabot and Maja Ročak 2 Shrinking cities: new insights into planning cultures 26 Karina Pallagst and René Fleschurz 3 Path dependence in shrinking cities: learning from the past 40 Victoria Pinoncely 4 Shrinking smart from theory to practice: an epistemological approach to constructing a new planning concept 54 Bozhidar Ivanov 5 Place attachment and negative mindset in shrinking cities: is there a contradiction? 67 Solène Le Borgne 6 Understanding the role of social capital in regenerating shrinking cities: insights from the Netherlands 80 Maja Ročak 7 Shrinking cities as epistemic communities 94 Ivonne Audirac 8 Urban shrinkage and socio-economic segregation in medium-sized cities: the case of Gera 108 David Huntington PART II GOVERNING SHRINKING CITIES 9 Governance in shrinking cities: the role of active citizenship in emerging governance 122 Agnes Matoga 10 Urban mindware in governing post-socialist shrinking cities 134 Krzysztof Stachowiak and Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz 11 Governance challenges in shrinking cities: the example of brownfield site reuse and governance 148 Dieter Rink and Annegret Haase 12 Shrinking cities are here to stay: place-sensitive policy responses? 162 Flavio Besana and Kai Böhme 13 The legal and planning system for shrinking cities in Japan 178 Tetsuji Uemura 14 Towards brighter futures for European small and medium-sized towns: what can social innovation contribute? 193 Marco Bontje, Nicola Bacon, David Bole and Claire Gordon 15 Shrinking cities and cross-border context: the example of the twin cities of Forbach (Moselle, France) and Völklingen (Saarland, Germany) 208 Frédérique Morel-Doridat PART III GREENING/RIGHTSIZING SHRINKING CITIES 16 Adaptation of infrastructures in shrinking cities: a review 222 Fanny Augis 17 A growing field in shrinking cities: a literature review on shrinkage and urban green space 236 Olivia Lewis 18 Utilising solar energy and technology production-oriented strategies in shrinking cities 250 Simone Di Pietro 19 Urban green innovation and revitalisation of declining areas and vacant spaces in shrinking cities 264 José G. Vargas-Hernández and Patricia M.I. Hammer 20 Reflections on the challenges for public value capture in shrinking cities 278 Sílvia Sousa and Paulo Pinho 21 Carbon mitigation for shrinking cities 292 Helen Mulligan 22 Regrowth challenges of English cities in the context of flood risk: a discussion on flood resilience and regrowth in Hull, United Kingdom 308 Faeeza Mackay, Stephen Platt and Fulvio Domenico Lopane 23 Cultural branding and adaptive reuse in shrinking cities: a comparative study of Turin, Italy and Lowell, USA 324 Justin B. Hollander and Marissa G. Meaney PART IV REGROWING SHRINKING CITIES 24 Variations of urban regrowth – systematising driving factors and contextual conditions: the European perspective 338 Annegret Haase, Marco Bontje, Dieter Rink, Chris Couch, Szymon Marcińczak, Petr Rumpel and Manuel Wolff 25 Issues, diffusion and solutions of shrinkage in French heritage towns’ centres 353 Alix de La Gaignonnière 26 Pop Up City and interim uses 367 Terry Schwarz 27 Smart cities as a substitute industry revitalisation approach to shrinking cities in Germany? 381 Jakob Schackmar 28 Refugees in shrinking cities: the role of place and belonging in refugee-led revitalisation 395 Norma Schemschat 29 Old industrial cities striving to attract and retain knowledge workers: a case study from Spain 409 Simón Sánchez-Moral, Alfonso Arellano and David Moreno 30 Data, policy and segregation, open source data and catalysing inclusive culture-led economic development: contextualising smart city 422 Jasmin Aber Index

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Book SynopsisThis original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness.Focusing on major cities in East Asia, North America, and Western Europe, Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City illuminates the ways in which cities differ not only in their course and stages of development, but in the nature of their economies and their administrative structures. Featuring a wide-ranging set of contributions from top researchers, this book discusses and analyzes the issues that different cities face, such as social cohesion, tolerance and cultural diversity, and how this will determine their developmental trajectories through the coming decade. These issues are explored in relation to contemporary topics including the growing economy of robotics, the rising importance and use of artificial intelligence and the information and communications economy.Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City will be an invaluable read for scholars and professors in urban economics and urban studies more broadly, particularly those who are focusing on the importance of sustainability in both areas. Its stimulating, yet accessible, approach to the topic and key case studies will also greatly benefit urban planners and economic policy makers looking to improve contemporary cities.Trade Review'This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at the national or international level, other sections focus instead on specific case studies, from Korea to Mexico or Canada, among the others. Organized by members of the Global Urban Competitiveness Project, this work is of sure interest for scholars and policy makers in the area of strategic urban planning and competitiveness.' -- Daniele Ietri, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy'Competitiveness, sustainability and tolerance. These are three key factors for urban development proposed by this book edited by Peter Kresl. In the "modern city", economic and technological competitiveness cannot be sustained without environmental sustainability, tolerance and social balance. The reader will find very up-to-date diagnoses about cities that will star in urban growth in the 21st century in India, China, Mexico, South Korea, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe. They are carried out by professors from leading universities in each country. A fresh and forward-looking book about the city in the 21st century.' -- Joan Trullen, The Autonomous University of Barcelona, SpainTable of ContentsContents: Introduction viii PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership 2 Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and competitiveness 16 Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and Arnaud Scaillerez 3 Urbanization and sustainable urban development in China 38 Shen Jianfa 4 In search of an innovation economic geography 55 Edward Blakely 5 Evaluating the quality of comprehensive plans for urban resilience: the case of seven metropolitan cities in South Korea 72 Hyun-Woo Kim and Gi-Chan Kim PART II THE COMPETITIVE CITY 6 “Focused Research University” and “Matrix College”: Incheon National University’s strategies based on combination and permutation 90 Cho Dong-Sung 7 Human behavior and economic development: culture, psychology and the competitiveness of cities and regions 106 Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson 8 Must a competitive city be a tolerant city? 147 Peter Karl Kresl 9 Ecological environment competitiveness in emerging economies: a case of urban India 160 Shaleen Singhal and Meenakshi Kumar 10 Metropolitan development and geographical deconcentration in Mexico, 1980–2015 179 Jaime Sobrino 11 Mexico: GVCs network development and the emergence of interactive cities 200 Clemente Ruiz Durán 12 Mexican cities’ innovative industry and competitiveness in the age of the modern city: changes between 1993 and 2013 223 Isela Orihuela Index 241

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Book SynopsisWritten in a clear and concise style, this Modern Guide provides a timely overview and comparison of urban challenges and national urban policies in 13 European countries, addressing key issues such as housing, urban regeneration and climate change. A team of international contributors illustrate how gaps are emerging across Europe due to the significant shifts in urban programmes.The book provides an in-depth analysis into how the European Union influences policies at a national level within its member states and how these are implemented in terms of scope and objectives. It explores how this results in fewer commonalities between countries and the gap between the rise of international urban agendas and variegated national urban policies, examining whether a more bespoke approach is better than the traditional 'one size fits all'.This insightful book will be an important read for researchers of urban studies and public policy as well as scholars with an interest in urban and regional sociology.Trade Review'Karsten Zimmermann and Valeria Fedeli have co-created a landmark text on the changing role of national urban policies in Europe. Many leading scholars in the European Urban Research Association (EURA) contribute their insights and the book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the political struggles now shaping modern city politics.' -- Robin Hambleton, University of the West of England, UK'This interesting volume highlights the importance of considering cities as political actors embedded in national urban policies. A much-needed perspective to understand the degrees of freedom cities have in different European countries and their implications.' -- Yuri Kazepov, University of Vienna, Austria'Zimmermann and Fedeli's Modern Guide demonstrates how, despite international encouragement, the promise of bold, nationally-coordinated and intersectoral urban policies is still sadly unfulfilled. Each chapter provides an informative, up-to-date overview of the trajectories, instruments, goals and eventual impacts of national urban policy in 13 countries that will be useful for scholars and practitioners in Europe and beyond.' -- Hilary Silver, George Washington University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 National urban policies in Europe – an introduction 1 Valeria Fedeli and Karsten Zimmermann 2 National urban policies in a federal system: the case of Germany 14 Hubert Heinelt and Karsten Zimmermann 3 Acting for cities and towns? The perpetual reinvention of categories and tools of national urban policies in France 34 Christophe Demazière and Olivier Sykes 4 Irish urban policy: from benign neglect to national strategic planning 58 Paula Russell and Brendan Williams 5 The unaccomplished quest for urban policies in Italy. ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the country of one hundred cities 87 Valeria Fedeli 6 National urban policies in the Netherlands: an urban renaissance? 103 Bas Denters 7 Becoming urban: the emergence of an urban policy in rural Norway 127 Gro Sandkjær Hanssen 8 Boosting national urban policies by European integration. The case of Poland 149 Piotr Żuber, Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska and Joanna Krukowska 9 Thirty years of urban policy in Portugal: challenges and multilevel governance 176 Filipe Teles, Patrícia Romeiro, Sara Moreno Pires 10 Changing urban system, changing urban policy: Romania since 1989 195 Cristina Stănuș, Daniel Pop and Dragoș Dragoman 11 Urban National Policy in Spain? A diachronic critical review of four decades of government action 216 Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado and Javier Ruiz Sánchez 12 Multilevel polycentric governance in urban development policies – national urban policy structure in Slovakia 245 Maros Finka and Milan Husar 13 Limited, fragmented and powerless: national urban policies in Sweden 268 Anders Lidström and Nils Hertting 14 ‘Places left behind’: national urban policy in the UK – from boom to slump and recovery? 284 Andrew Tallon 15 National urban policies in Europe: does the EU make the difference? 306 Valeria Fedeli, Juliet Carpenter and Karsten Zimmermann 16 In search of momentum for national urban policy 320 Karsten Zimmermann and Valeria Fedeli Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on research from diverse thinkers in urban planning and the built environment, this Handbook articulates the cutting edge of contemporary understandings about power and its impact on planning. It identifies the current state of knowledge about planning and power, as well as emerging trajectories within this field of research.This comprehensive Handbook examines power relations in late capitalism and provides normative suggestions on how power might be utilised in planning. Chapters analyse the work of fundamental theoretical thinkers, including Marx, Foucault, Deleuze, and Lacan, as well as the history and practice of abolitionist housing justice in the United States, feminist and queer perspectives on planning and power, and the emerging autonomous smart city. It demonstrates the effects of power within planning and the ways in which individuals, communities, and organisations are shaped and impacted positively and negatively by its practices.With case studies from a range of different geopolitical regions, this stimulating Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars of architecture, community development, geography, urban and regional planning, urban design, and urban studies. It will also be beneficial for practitioners of planning and the built environment.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Planning and Power 1 Kristina Grange and Tanja Winkler PART I THEORISING POWER IN PLANNING 1 Marxian understandings of power 12 Enda Murphy and Linda Fox-Rogers 2 Lefebvre’s right to the city and a radical urban citizenship: struggles around power in urban planning 26 Lina Olsson and Elena Besussi 3 Lukes and power: three dimensions and three criticisms 42 Raine Mäntysalo 4 Michel Foucault, power and planning 58 John Pløger 5 Deleuze, Guattari and power 74 Jean Hillier 6 Lacanian perspectives on power in planning 90 Chuan Wang 7 Filling the empty place: Laclau and Mouffe on power and hegemony 104 Nikolai Roskamm 8 The destituent power of Rancière’s radical equality 118 Camillo Boano 9 Communicative planning and the transformative potential of citizen-led participation 134 Crystal Legacy 10 Insurgent planning and power 149 Bjørn Sletto 11 Decolonial approaches to thinking planning and power 165 Libby Porter 12 Questioning the power of normative ethics in planning 181 Katie McClymont PART II SITUATING POWER IN PLANNING 13 The public good and the power of promises in planning 196 Andy Inch 14 ‘Tearing down and building up’: a history, theory and practice of abolitionist housing justice in the US 211 Hilary Malson 15 Planning, informality and power 228 Mona Fawaz 16 Planning, power, and uneven development: a rent gap perspective 243 Ernesto López-Morales 17 Power in planning from a Southern perspective 258 James Duminy and Vanessa Watson 18 Queer perspectives on planning and power 273 Petra Doan and Ozlem Atalay 19 Feminist planning in the face of power: from interests and ideologies to institutions and intersections 289 Leonora C. Angeles 20 Neoliberalism and power 305 Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi 21 The emerging autonomous smart city and its impacts on planning and power relations in late capitalism 321 Elham Bahmanteymouri and Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 22 Power in regulatory planning processes: searching for the third face of power 339 Yvonne Rydin 23 Power of, on and in planning 354 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 24 A post-postmodernist perspective on power in planning: situating practices and power 367 Ernest R. Alexander 25 Planning, media, and power 381 Jaime Lopez and Lisa Schweitzer 26 Urban planning and the truthiness question 397 Eric Sheppard Index

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Book SynopsisUrban Planning and Management presents a collection of key articles on different aspects of sustainability in urban planning and management whilst simultaneously illustrating the conflicting arguments about whether and how sustainability should be achieved.Part I covers the factors determining the life and death of cities and what is required to achieve sustainable development. In Part II issues of whether cities should be compact or dispersed and concepts of sustainable development in third world cities and societies are explored. Parts III and IV examine design as an integral part of producing a sustainable urban policy and energy use. Part V deals with Local Agenda 21 issues and Part VI looks at town planning. Part VII discusses transport as both a product and determinant of sustainable urban planning and management. Parts VIII, IX and X examine the sustainable provision of other services including waste collection, recycling schemes and water. In Part XI sustainability is shown as occurring within, and constrained by, legal, property rights and management practices.Trade Review'. . . the book will provide a useful collection and its international coverage will add to its appeal.' -- Huw Thomas, Urban Studies'The editors have made some effort in this book to include multiple perspectives on sustainable development, allowing the reader to have more informed opinions on this subject. . . . It was informative and provided me with a better perspective on certain issues.' -- Michael Sullivan, The Ontario Planning JournalTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Sustainability in Urban Planning and Management: An Overview Kenneth G. Willis, R. Kerry Turner and Ian J. Bateman PART I GENERAL OVERVIEW 1. Edward L. Glaeser (1998), ‘Are Cities Dying?’ 2. Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp (1997), ‘The Co-Evolutionary City’ PART II CITIES 3. Duncan McLaren (1992), ‘Compact or Dispersed? Dilution is No Solution’ 4. Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson (1997), ‘Are Compact Cities a Desirable Planning Goal?’ 5. Mike Parnwell and Sarah Turner (1998), ‘Sustaining the Unsustainable? City and Society in Indonesia’ PART III DESIGN 6. Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (1998), ‘Leon Krier and the Organic Revival Within Urban Policy and Practice’ 7. Dafton G. Njuguna (1997), ‘Diffusion of Bio-climatic Building Design Techniques in Kenya: Impediments and Opportunities’ PART IV ENERGY 8. Simon Guy and Simon Marvin (1996), ‘Transforming Urban Infrastructure Provision – The Emerging Logic of Demand Side Management’ 9. Susan E. Owens and Peter A. Rickaby (1992), ‘Settlements and Energy Revisited’ 10. Ryan H. Wiser (1998), ‘Green Power Marketing: Increasing Customer Demand for Renewable Energy’ PART V LOCAL AGENDA 21 11. Garth A. Myers and Makame A.H. Muhajir (1997), ‘Localising Agenda 21: Environmental Sustainability and Zanzibari Urbanisation’ 12. Virginia W. Maclaren (1996), ‘Urban Sustainability Reporting’ PART VI TOWN PLANNING 13. Jeremy Rowan-Robinson, Andrea Ross and William Walton (1995), ‘Sustainable Development and the Development Control Process’ 14. David Evans (1997), ‘Planning for Sustainability’ 15. Alan W. Evans (1991), ‘"Rabbit Hutches on Postage Stamps": Planning Development and Political Economy’ PART VII TRANSPORT 16. Peter Nijkamp (1994), ‘Roads Toward Environmentally Sustainable Transport’ 17. Henrik Gudmundsson and Mattias Höjer (1996), ‘Sustainable Development Principles and their Implications for Transport’ 18. M.Z. Acutt and J.S. Dodgson (1997), ‘Controlling the Environmental Impacts of Transport: Matching Instruments to Objectives’ 19. Robert Cervero and Kara Kockelman (1997), ‘Travel Demand and the 3Ds: Density, Diversity and Design’ PART VIII WASTE AND RECYCLING 20. Peter Tucker, Grant Murney and Jacqueline Lamont (1998), ‘Predicting Recycling Scheme Performance: A Process Simulation Approach’ 21. Peter L. Doan (1998), ‘Institutionalizing Household Waste Collection: The Urban Environmental Management Project in Côte d’Ivoire’ PART IX WATER 22. KyeongAe Choe, Dale Whittington and Donald T. Lauria (1996), ‘The Economic Benefits of Surface Water Quality Improvements in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Davao, Philippines’ 23. Souro D. Joardar (1998), ‘Carrying Capacities and Standards as Bases Towards Urban Infrastructure Planning in India: A Case of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation’ PART X OTHER SERVICES 24. Takashi Onishi (1994), ‘A Capacity Approach for Sustainable Urban Development: An Empirical Study’ 25. Steve Bradley and Jim Taylor (1998), ‘The Effect of School Size on Exam Performance in Secondary Schools’ 26. Stephen Farber (1998), ‘Undesirable Facilities and Property Values: A Summary of Empirical Studies’ PART XI LEGAL, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES 27. Charles L. Choguill (1996), ‘Ten Steps to Sustainable Infrastructure’ 28. Robert Innes (1997), ‘Takings, Compensation, and Equal Treatment for Owners of Developed and Undeveloped Property’ PART XII EPILOGUE 29. The Prince of Wales (1998), ‘Why I’m Modern, But Not Modernist’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThis book represents a major innovation in the institutional analysis of cities and their planning, management and governance. Using concepts of transaction costs and property rights, the work shows systematically how urban order evolves as individuals co-operate in cities for mutual gain. Five kinds of urban order are examined, arising as co-operating individuals seek to reduce the costs of transacting with each other. These are organisational order (combinations of property rights), institutional order (rules and sanctions), proprietary order (fragmentation of property rights), spatial order and public domain order. Property Rights, Planning and Markets also offers an institutional interpretation of urban planning and management that challenges both the view that planning inevitably conflicts with freedom of contract and the view that its function is a means of correcting market failures. Real life examples from countries and regions around the world are used to illustrate the universal relevance of theoretical generalisations, which will be welcomed by a new generation of policymakers and students who take on a world view that goes beyond national boundaries.Trade Review'This is an important book. The authors in effect offer a positive theory of planning and urbanisation. As such, Webster and Lai's model, based on institutional economics, is a vast improvement on some equally ambitious predecessors. The book's insights and clarity make it a must reading for anyone seeking better understanding of how cities evolve as they do, and why planning is an integral part of their evolution.' -- Ernest Alexander, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US'A truly remarkable achievement.' -- Mark Pennington, Kings College, London, UK'Chris Webster and Lawrence Lai have created a coherent and insightful integration of concepts such as property rights, organizations, competition, incentives, transaction costs, public goods, and externalities, which will help theorists and urban practitioners analyze and manage city goods and services. An important insight of the authors is the recognition of the interdependencies of people in a neighborhood, which can be efficiently handled with shares in the property value of the neighborhood. There is a constant question of how much markets and how much government should be involved in urban matters, and the authors provide a reasoned, balanced approach which recognizes the vital role of government while appreciating the effectiveness of markets and decentralized decision making, including private institutions or 'clubs' such as homeowners' associations. Their position that governments and markets co-evolve and complement one another is sound, and their conclusions regarding the need to provide clear property rights and efficient rules provide us with theoretical tools to better understand how cities can be improved while being wary of the 'allure of utopia".' -- Fred Foldvary, Santa Clara University, California, US'This is a really important contribution to the planning literature. Beautifully written and clearly structured, it explains the complex relationship between "planning" and "markets" using the economic perspective of transaction cost theory and the "new-institutionalism". This provides a robust way of addressing the old "economic and planning" agenda, which the authors illustrate with references to cases and situations from across the world. Informative and stimulating, this should be included in every planning theory course, and will be helpful to all trying to re-think old debates about planning and markets.' -- Patsy Healey, Newcastle University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Yoram Barzel 1. Introduction 2. The Benefits and Costs of Co-operating in Cities 3. Organisational, Institutional and Proprietary Order 4. Spatial Order 5. Public Domain Order 6. Public Domain Order – Public Goods 7. Public Domain Order – Externalities 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith the global expansion of urbanization there is a need to ensure that cities develop in a way that allows all residents to benefit from urban life. This volume contains a collection of classic and more recent papers that provide insight into the problems encountered in urbanization and the ways in which planning has evolved to meet the resultant challenges. It is broad in its coverage, and its content includes both theoretical and applied contributions as well as looking at urban planning issues in the developing as well as the developed world.Trade Review‘Urban planning is a diverse discipline with many faces. Some treat it as applied politics; an instrument to operationalize ideology. Others focus on form, method, technique and process, while others emphasize networks, the environment, economics and sustainability. But ultimately the urban planner is a doctor and the urban society, in all its dimensions, the patient. It is the planner’s task to keep the patient happy and healthy and to achieve this goal a balance needs to be struck between all of the aspects above. This volume is indicative of the multi-dimensionality of the profession. It contains some of the most outstanding and groundbreaking works that have been produced by some of the greatest thinkers in all the major fields of urban planning over the past half century.’ -- Hermanus S. Geyer, Potchefstroom Campus, North-West University, South AfricaTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Series Preface Kenneth Button and Peter Nijkamp Introduction Tüzin Baycan Levent, Peter Batey, Kenneth Button and Peter Nijkamp PART I PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE 1. Kevin Lynch and Lloyd Rodwin (1958), ‘A Theory of Urban Form’ 2. John Muller (1998), ‘Paradigms and Planning Practice: Conceptual and Contextual Considerations’ 3. John Friedmann (1998), ‘Planning Theory Revisited’ 4. John Forester (1999), ‘Reflections on the Future Understanding of Planning Practice’ 5. Stephen Graham and Patsy Healey (1999), ‘Relational Concepts of Space and Place: Issues for Planning Theory and Practice’ 6. Andreas Faludi (2000), ‘The Performance of Spatial Planning’ PART II PLANNING OF URBAN SETTLEMENTS 7. Lewis Mumford (1954), ‘The Neighborhood and the Neighborhood Unit’ 8. Hans Blumenfeld (1955), ‘The Economic Base of the Metropolis’ 9. William Alonso (1970), ‘What are New Towns for?’ 10. H. Richardson (1972), ‘Optimality in City Size, Systems of Cities and Urban Policy: A Sceptic’s View’ 11. A. Rapoport (1983), ‘Environmental Quality, Metropolitan Areas and Traditional Settlements’ 12. Peter Gordon and Harry W. Richardson (1997), ‘Are Compact Cities a Desirable Planning Goal?’ PART III FUTURE URBAN STRUCTURE 13. Catherine Bauer Wurster (1963), ‘The Form and Structure of the Future Urban Complex’ 14. Charles L. Choguill (1993), ‘Editorial: Sustainable Cities: Urban Policies for the Future’ 15. Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin (1994), ‘Telematics and the Convergence of Urban Infrastructure: Implications for Contemporary Cities’ 16. Peter Hall (1997), ‘The Future of the Metropolis and its Form’ 17. Stephen Graham (1997), ‘Telecommunications and the Future of Cities: Debunking the Myths’ 18. Saskia Sassen (2001), ‘Impacts of Information Technologies on Urban Economies and Politics’ PART IV URBAN PLANNING IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD 19. Jorge E. Hardoy and David Satterthwaite (1986), ‘Urban Change in the Third World: Are Recent Trends a Useful Pointer to the Urban Future?’ 20. Alan Turner (1992), ‘Urban Planning in the Developing World: Lessons from Experience’ 21. Josef Leitmann, Carl Bartone and Janis Bernstein (1992), ‘Environmental Management and Urban Development: Issues and Options for Third World Cities’ 22. Alan Gilbert (1992), ‘Third World Cities: Housing, Infrastructure and Servicing’ 23. Rodney R. White (1994), ‘Strategic Decisions for Sustainable Urban Development in the Third World’ 24. David Drakakis-Smith (1995), ‘Third World Cities: Sustainable Urban Development, 1’ PART V URBAN PLANNING MODELS 25. Britton Harris (1960), ‘Plan or Projection: An Examination of the Use of Models in Planning’ 26. F. Stuart Chapin, Jr. (1963), ‘Taking Stock of Techniques for Shaping Urban Growth’ 27. A.G. Wilson (1968), ‘Models in Urban Planning: A Synoptic Review of Recent Literature’ 28. P.W.J. Batey and M.J. Breheny (1978), ‘Methods in Strategic Planning: Part I: A Descriptive Review’ 29. P.W.J. Batey and M.J. Breheny (1978), ‘Methods in Strategic Planning: Part II: A Prescriptive Review’ 30. Cecilia Wong (1998), ‘Old Wine in a New Bottle? Planning Methods and Techniques in the 1990s’ PART VI COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN URBAN PLANNING 31. Sherry R. Arnstein (1969), ‘A Ladder of Citizen Participation’ 32. Sydney H. Williams (1976), ‘Citizen Participation in City and Regional Planning: An Effective American Methodology’ 33. Heather Campbell and Robert Marshall (2000), ‘Public Involvement and Planning: Looking Beyond the One to the Many’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisTraces the dynamics of state-building in Juba, Southern Sudan 2005-2011, revealing how underlying ties of ethnicity and land dominated the actions of the various parties in post-conflict reconstruction and how these may continue to influence power and resource-sharing in the newly independent state of South Sudan. Naseem Badiey examines the local dynamics of the emerging capital city of Juba, Southern Sudan, during the historically pivotal transition period following the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). Focusing on the intersections of land tenure reform and urban development, she challenges the dominant paradigm of 'post-conflict reconstruction' and re-conceptualizes state-building as a social process underpinned by negotiation. Badiey explores local resistance to reconstruction programmes, debates over the interpretation of peace settlements, and competing claims to land and resources not as problems to be solved through interventions but as negotiations of authority which are fundamental to shaping the character of the 'state'. While donors and aid agency officials anticipated clashes between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) following the CPA, they did not foresee internal divisions that impeded reconstruction in Southern Sudan, raising serious questions about the viability of an independent state. In Juba local elites interpreted the CPA in line with their economic and political interests, using claims to land, authority and political power to challenge the SPLM's agenda for urban reconstruction. In revealing how local actors strategically interpreted the framework of land rights in Southern Sudan, the book offers a basis for understanding the challenges that confront the nascent South Sudan's state-builders and their international partners in the future. NASEEM BADIEY is Assistant Professor of International Development andHumanitarian Action at California State University Monterey Bay.Trade ReviewWhat Badiey has produced is more than simply a more nuanced portrayal of Southern Sudan-though she does this too-and an excellent contribution to the literature on South Sudan. This book enters into a discussion about post-conflict state-building that has been going on across the region for a long time. * SUDAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION *A valuable book for those who want to understand the contemporary dynamics of land issues and reconstruction at large especially in the African context. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *[A] refreshing reminder to the aid community about how 'experts' and topdown planners can fail abysmally if they fail to pay attention to the local dynamics of an area. Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The dilemma of 'post-conflict recontstruction' in South Sudan The momemtum of history 'Rebels' and 'collaborators': integration and reconciliation following the CPA 'Land belongs to the community': competing interpretations of the CPA The unseeing state: corruption, evasion and other responses to urban planning Local land disputes: informality, autochthony and competing ideas of citizenship Conclusion: all statebuilding is local

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