RTPI Library Series

Planning/Conflict

Critical Perspectives on Contentious Urban Developments

Edited by Enrico Gualini

Series: RTPI Library Series

Planning/Conflict discusses the reasons behind, and models the shape of conflicts around urban developments in contemporary cities. It offers an interdisciplinary framework for scholars to engage with the issue of planning conflicts, focusing on both empirical and theoretical inquiry. By creating...

Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge

Reviving Critical Planning Theory

Dealing with Pressure, Neo-liberalism, and Responsibility in Communicative Planning

By Tore Øivin Sager

Series: RTPI Library Series

Discussing some of the most vexing criticism of communicative planning theory (CPT), this book goes on to suggest how theorists and planners can respond to it. Looking at issues of power, politics and ethics in relation to planning, this book is for both critics and advocates of CPT, with lessons...

Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge

English Regional Planning 2000-2010

Lessons for the Future

Edited by Corinne Swain, Tim Marshall, Tony Baden

Series: RTPI Library Series

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning during these years, whereby large steps forward were made, but where...

Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge

An Anatomy of Sprawl

Planning and Politics in Britain

By Nicholas A. Phelps

Series: RTPI Library Series

Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation...

Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge

Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory

By John Friedmann

Series: RTPI Library Series

For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself. Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the...

Published January 4th 2011 by Routledge

Implementing Sustainability

The New Zealand Experience

By Caroline L. Miller

Series: RTPI Library Series

New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently. This book examines the lessons that can be learned by planning practitioners...

Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge

Land and Limits

Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process, 2nd Edition

By Susan Owens, Richard Cowell

Series: RTPI Library Series

The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy. In the decade since the book was first conceived,...

Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge

Strategic Spatial Projects

Catalysts for Change

Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck, Jef Van den Broeck, Louis Albrechts, Frank Moulaert, Ann Verhetsel

Series: RTPI Library Series

Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and...

Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge

Cohesion, Coherence, Cooperation: European Spatial Planning Coming of Age?

By Andreas Faludi

Series: RTPI Library Series

Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This book examines the most recent of these, the concept of territorial cohesion. Territorial cohesion is the pursuit of balanced development, competitiveness...

Published September 30th 2010 by Routledge

Transport Matters

Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions

By Angela Hull

Series: RTPI Library Series

Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and...

Published August 8th 2010 by Routledge