Planning in a Global Era

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ISBN: 9780754619437 | 0754619435
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/28/2003

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Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade. Advances in communication technology, computing and air travel clearly have a significance on planning an activity which has been concerned with controlling and shaping the use of space. This outstanding volume brings together contributions from across the world in order to address some of the questions that arise from such global changes.

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List of Contributors

Planning in a Global Era

(12)

Andy Thornley

Yvonne Rydin

Globalisation, World Cities, and Urban Planning: Developing a Conceptual Framework

(14)

Peter Newman

Andy Thornley

A Global City in a Developmental State: Urban Planning in Tokyo

(20)

Asato Saito

The Global City Hypothesis for the Periphery: A Comparative Case Study of Mexico City, Istanbul and Guangzhou

(36)

Miguel Jimenez

Bo-Sin Tang

Murat Cemal Yalcintan

Ertan Zibel

Should Provinces/Regions have their own Planning Acts? An Exploration of the Debate using the Post-1994 South African Experience

(34)

Mark Oranje

Bringing Power to Planning Research: One Researcher's Story

117

(26)

Bent Flyvbjerg

Learning from Planning Practice?

143

(20)

Vanessa Watson

Deconstructing the Built Environment: Design Experimentation Within Public Spaces

163

(26)

Wael Fahmi

Joe Howe

Lefebvre's Modernities: Informality, Planning and Space in Cape Town

189

(22)

Yonn Dierwechter

Conditions for the Integration of Ecological Knowledge in Land-Use Planning -- the Local Government Ecologist Perspective

211

(18)

Sylvia Dovlen

Doubts and Beliefs in Norwegian Environmental Bureaucracy

229

(26)

Terje Kleven

The Ambiguities of Change: the Case of the Planning Profession in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

255

(24)

Philip Harrison

Michael Kahn

Government Approach to Housing the Urban Poor in Egypt: the Need for an Alternative

279

(28)

Mohsen Aboutorabi

Khaled M. Abdelhalim

From Privatisation to Bureaucratisation: Implementing Urban Renewal in Hong Kong

307

(20)

Bo-Sin Tang

Empowerment and Social Exclusion: Urban Policy in Scotland and the U.S.A.

327

(16)

John McCarthy

The Perils of Growth and Decline: Sustainable Development in Edinburgh and Wuppertal (Germany)

343

(16)

Daniel Mittler

The Development of Sustainable Transport Policies in Warsaw: 1990-2000

359

(28)

Eamonn Judge

Planning for Sustainability and the Impact of Professional Cultures

387

Maria Hakansson

Eva Asplund

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