RTPI Library Series
About the Book Series
Published in conjunction with the Royal Town Planning Institute [http://www.rtpi.org.uk/], this series of leading edge texts is intended for academics, educators, students and practitioners in planning and related fields. Written by globally renowned authors the series looks at all aspects of spatial planning theory and practice from a comparative and international perspective.
Spatial Planning and Building Control in Germany: Comprehensive, Impactful and Innovative Planning as a Pathway to Sustainable Communities
1st Edition
By Robin Ganser, Alexander Kukk
July 15, 2026
This book guides readers to a better understanding of the German planning system and its responses to the critical challenges of 21st century spatial planning, such as patterns of shrinkage and growth with ongoing economic structural change, demographic change and environmental ...
Rural Planning Futures: Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Scott, John Sturzaker, Nick Gallent, Gavin Parker, Amy Burnett, Ian Mell
April 08, 2025
Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic future practice that mediates rural change towards more ...
The Promise of Planning: Global Aspirations and South African Experience Since 2008
1st Edition
By Philip Harrison, Alison Todes
July 10, 2024
The Promise of Planning explores the experience of planning internationally since the global financial crisis, focusing on South Africa. The book is a response to a decade-plus in which state-led planning has re-emerged as a putative means for achieving developmental goals (as indicated in global ...
Engaging Children and Young People in Planning: A Handbook for Transformative Practice
1st Edition
By Teresa Strachan
March 25, 2024
Engaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners’ skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing several projects delivered or supported by planning students to young people in the Northeast of England. Urban or town and country planning is a largely ...
Planning in an Uncanny World: Australian Urban Planning in an International Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas A. Phelps, Judy Bush, Anna Hurlimann
December 23, 2022
This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance, climate change, transportation planning, regional development and migration planning. Australian urban ...
Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England
1st Edition
By Patsy Healey
July 22, 2022
This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey’s personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while ...
Planning for the Common Good
1st Edition
By Mick Lennon
December 31, 2021
Appeals to the ‘common good’ or ‘public interest’ have long been used to justify planning as an activity. While often criticised, such appeals endure in spirit if not in name as practitioners and theorists seek ways to ensure that planning operates as an ethically attuned pursuit. Yet, this leaves ...
Digital Participatory Planning: Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design
1st Edition
By Alexander Wilson, Mark Tewdwr-Jones
September 30, 2021
Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field of digital planning and designs and trials a range of technologies, from the use of apps and digital gaming through to social media, to examine how accessible and effective these new methods are. It critically discusses urban ...
Regent Park Redux: Reinventing Public Housing in Canada
1st Edition
By Laura Johnson, Robert Johnson
September 30, 2020
Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto’s Regent Park has experienced common large-scale public housing problems. Instead of simply tearing down old buildings and scattering inhabitants, the ...
Public Norms and Aspirations: The Turn to Institutions in Action
1st Edition
By Willem Salet
May 14, 2019
The aspirations of individuals, organizations, and states, and their perceptions of problems and possible solutions circulate fast in this instantaneous society. Yet, the deliberation of the underlying public norms seems to escape the attention of the public. Institutions enable people to have...
A Future for Planning: Taking Responsibility for Twenty-First Century Challenges
1st Edition
By Michael Harris
May 10, 2019
As well as being spatial, planning is necessarily also about the future – and yet time has been relatively neglected in the academic, practice and policy literature on planning. Time, in particular the need for longer-term thinking, is critical to responding effectively to a range of pressing ...
From Student to Urban Planner: Young Practitioners’ Reflections on Contemporary Ethical Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Tuna Taşan-Kok, Mark Oranje
December 05, 2017
For many young planners, the noble intentions with going to planning school seem starkly out of place in the neoliberal worlds they have come to inhabit. For some, the huge gap between the power they thought they would have and what they actually do is not only worrying, but also deeply ...