Reshaping Regional Planning : A Northern Perspective (Paperback)

Contents: Challenging the Scope of Planning: Introduction, Folke Snickars, Brita Olerup and Lars Olof Persson; Planning in Sweden, BjA¶rn Alfredsson and Jan Wiman; The shaping of local authority districts: a historical and ongoing process, Sten Axelsson; Strategic regional planning - issues in long term traffic planning in stockholm, Christer Anderstig; Planning with a ceiling, Christer Sanne. Emerging Issues for Planning Actions: Catalyzing culture, Magnus LA¶fvenberg; Governance and planning for a new age, Amy Rader Olsson; Local labour market performance in the knowledge economy, Lars Olof Persson; Social exclusion in post-fordist Sweden, GA¶ran Cars and Mats Johansson; Quality of life and social cohesion: a methodological discussion and their implications in planning, Vania A. Ceccato. Professional Cultures: An approach to the development of competence for sustainable development in the context of planning, Eva Asplund; The role of professions in environmental planning, Sylvia Dovlen and Maria HA￥kansson; Planning as discourse analysis, Lars Orrskog. Reshaping the Tools for Regional Planning: Economic guidelines for transportation planning, Martin J. Beckmann and A…ke E. Andersson; Spatial interaction in multi-regional modeling - a review, Patrik Arousell; Emerging trade patterns in the Baltic Sea region, Pontus A…berg; Telecommunicators in the multinuclear city, Mattias HA¶jer; Visions of sustainable urban communities in post-conflict zones, Tigran Hasic. Regional Evaluation of Policy Processes: Planning for the preservation of the cultural built heritage, Krister Olsson; Customer-based quality measures in Swedish special transportation services, Stig Knutsson; Culture, jobs and regional development - an empirical study of innovation networks in the culture industry in the Stockholm metropolitan region, Folke Snickars.