The Governance of Place : Space and Planning Processes (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Ali Madanipour, Patsy Healy and Angela Hull; Concepts of Space: Concepts of space, Ali Madanipour; How should we think about place in a globalizing world?, Nigel Thrift; A new approach to identifying localities: representing places? in Britain, Mike Coombes and Colin Wymer; Imagined value: the poetics and politics of place, Jean Hillier; The integrated metropolis: a strategy for the networked, multi-centered city, Tony Lloyd-Jones, Bill Erickson, Marion Roberts and Stephen Nice; Urban futures? integrating telecommunications into urban planning, Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin; Multiple meanings of space and the need for a dynamic perspective, Ali Madanipour. Changing Governance Processes: Changing governance processes, Angela Hull; The need to zoom out: understanding planning processes in a post-corporatist society, Maarten Hajer; Structures and processes in strategic spatial plan preparation: the participatory agenda, Angela Hull and Geoff Vigar; The influence of new institutional processes in shaping places: the cases of Lyon and Nimes (France 1981 - 1995), Alain Motte; Metropolitan development as a complex system: a new approach to sustainability, Judith Innes and David Booher; Towards a more place-focused planning system in Britain, Patsy Healey; Shaping urban areas into the 21st century: the roles of the planning process, Ted Kitchen; Index.