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Water Governance as Connective Capacity

by Jurian Edelenbos & Nanny Bressers

Bringing together case studies from countries including The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Romania, Sweden, Finland, Italy, India, Canada and the United States, the book focuses on the question of how to deal...


The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas

by Kenneth L. Shropshire

Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the bidding competition to capture a major league team, using interviews with major players to present an insider's perspective...


Gridlock Nation

by Kwasi Kwarteng & Jonathan Dupont

Why do we spend so much time stuck in traffic?  After Peak Oil, do we face the prospect of Peak Travel? Does climate change mean no more foreign holidays? In Victorian times, Britain used to have the finest...


State Territoriality and European Integration

by Michael Burgess & Hans Vollaard

The European nation state is now placed between the interconnected processes of globalization and European integration. This new book examines these evolving relationships, showing how the conventional territorial...


Regionalism and the State: NAFTA and Foreign Policy Convergence

by Gordon Mace

Empirically rich with highly detailed case studies on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), this comprehensive volume studies the relationship between regionalism and state behaviour.


Reclaiming Brownfields: A Comparative Analysis of Adaptive Reuse of Contaminated Properties

by Richard C. Hula & Laura A. Reese

The environmental legacy of past industrial and agricultural development can simultaneously pose serious threats to human health and impede reuse of contaminated land. This book recognizes that land and water...


Green Oslo: Visions, Planning and Discourse

by Mark Luccarelli & Per Gunnar Røe

As urban regions face the demand to decrease fossil fuel dependency, many cities in the developing world are undertaking initiatives designed to create a greener city by aiming for a more sustainable form of...


Sustainability and Short-term Policies: Improving Governance in Spatial Policy Interventions

by Stefan Sjöblom & Andersson

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years. Traditional hierarchical government has been challenged by new governance instruments relying on negotiations...


Urban Governance in Southern Europe

by João|Albet, Seixas

This volume examines the issues of urban governance in the Southern European context. Illustrated by case studies of several main cities and metropoles on the North Mediterranean coast, it introduces and critically...


Parallel Patterns of Shrinking Cities and Urban Growth: Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development of City Regions and Rural Areas

by Robin Ganser & Piro

Bringing together contributions from internationally renowned authors, such as Sir Peter Hall, Steve Ward and Johann Jessen, the book compares international case studies and highlights their relationships with...


Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action

by Riki Therivel

This practical guide, written by a practitioner for practitioners, presents a coherent and straightforward 'how-to-do-it' approach to the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process. Part one provides...


Uncovering the Unconscious Dimensions of Planning: Using Culture as a Tool to Analyse Spatial Planning Practices

by Othengrafen

By adopting theoretical approaches from the fields of management studies, cultural studies and anthropology, and by using culture as an organising principle, this book develops an innovative framework which...


Resilience & the City: Change, (Dis)Order and Disaster

by Rogers

Following the terrorism events of the first few years of the 21st century, the growth of a new security infrastructure has led to significant changes to urban design and the management of urban space. This book...


Planning By Law and Property Rights Reconsidered

by Thomas Hartmann & Barrie Needham

This book makes the (often implicit) theory behind planning by law and property rights explicit and relates it to those challenges. It starts by setting out what is understood by planning by law and property...


Transition towards Sustainable Mobility: The Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions

by Harry Geerlings & Yoram Shiftan

Reflecting the dynamic relationships between socio-technical behaviour and change, this book presents leading research on the transition process needed to achieve more sustainable transport systems. Focusing...


Sustainable City and Creativity: Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives

by Luigi Fusco Girard & Tüzin Baycan

This volume offers a coherent set of articles on sustainable and creative cities and addresses modern theories and concepts relating to research on sustainability and creativity. It analyses principles and practices...


Culture and Planning

by Simone Abram

Illustrated by a wide range of case studies from planning contexts, this book examines culture as a socio-historically situated concept, introducing a line of scholarship, both established and recent, to show...


Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community Participation: Planning, Regeneration and the Politics of Community

by Denis Dillon & Bryan Fanning

This book uses the London Borough of Haringey case study as a lens through which to explore the evolution of theoretical and policy debates about the relationship between local institutions and the communities...


Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice

by Petra L. Doan

This volume fills a gap in the literature on planning and the development of queer spaces. It highlights the resistance there has been within the planning profession to incorporate gay and lesbian concerns into...


Upwave: City Dynamics and the Coming Capitalist Revival

by John Montgomery

Countering the many claims that the best days of capitalism are over following the economic meltdown of 2008 onwards, this book provocatively argues that a new golden age of capitalism - or upwave - began around...