Planning in a Global Era (Hardcover)

Contents: Planning in a global era, Andy Thornley and Yvonne Rydin; Globalization, world cities and urban planning: developing a conceptual framework, Peter Newman and Andy Thornley; A global city in a developmental state: urban planning in Tokyo, Asato Saito; The global city hypothesis for the periphery: a comparative case study of Mexico City, Istanbul and Guangzhou, Miguel Jimenez, Bo-Sin Tang, Murat Cemal Yalcintan and Ertan Zibel; Should provinces/regions have their own planning acts? an exploration of the debate using the post-1994 South African experience, Mark Oranje; Bringing power to planning research: one researcher’s story, Bent Flyvbjerg; Learning from planning practice?, Vanessa Watson; Deconstructing the built environment: design experimentation within public spaces, Wael Fahmi and Joe Howe; Lefebvre’s modernities: informality, planning and space in Cape Town, Yonn Dierwechter; Conditions for the integration of ecological knowledge in land-use planning - the local government ecologist perspective, Sylvia Dovlen; Doubts and beliefs in Norwegian environmental bureaucracy, Terje Kleven; The ambiguities of change: the case of the planning profession in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Philip Harrison and Michael Kahn; Government approach to housing the urban poor in Egypt: the need for an alternative, Mohsen Aboutorabi and Khaled M. Abdelhalim; From privatisation to bureaucratisation: implementing urban renewal in Hong Kong, Bo-Sin Tang; Empowerment and social exclusion: urban policy in Scotland and the U.S.A., John McCarthy; The perils of growth and decline: sustainable development in Edinburgh and Wuppertal (Germany), Daniel Mittler; The development of sustainable transport policies in Warsaw: 1990-2000, Eamonn Judge; Planning for sustainability and the impact of professional cultures, Maria HA￥kansson and Eva Asplund