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.
Planning in Indigenous Australia: From Imperial Foundations to Postcolonial Futures
1st Edition
By Sue Jackson, Libby Porter, Louise C. Johnson
August 08, 2017
Planning in settler-colonial countries is always taking place on the lands of Indigenous peoples. While Indigenous rights, identity and cultural values are increasingly being discussed within planning, its mainstream accounts virtually ignore the colonial roots and legacies of the ...
Planning for Small Town Change
1st Edition
By Neil Powe, Trevor Hart
February 27, 2017
Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of settlements and environments which many residents and others want, either because it is operating with ...
Insurgencies and Revolutions: Reflections on John Friedmann’s Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Haripriya Rangan, Mee Kam NG, Libby Porter, Jacquelyn Chase
November 03, 2016
Over the past six or more decades, John Friedmann has been an insurgent force in the field of urban and regional planning, transforming it from its traditional state-centered concern for establishing social and spatial order into a radical domain of collaborative action between state and civil ...
Regional Planning for Open Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Arnold van der Valk, Terry van Dijk
May 13, 2016
Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis. The importance of open spaces for well-being in urban life is well-established. With case studies on internalization and valuation ...
Future Directions for the European Shrinking City
1st Edition
Edited
By William J.V. Neill, Hans Schlappa
January 26, 2016
Urban shrinkage is rising to the top of the political agenda in Europe as more cities are shrinking in the prolonged economic downturn we encounter. Coupled with unprecedented budgetary austerity and rapidly ageing populations, ‘stagnating’ and ‘shrinking’ cities have emerged as a key challenge for...
Urban Structure Matters: Residential Location, Car Dependence and Travel Behaviour
1st Edition
By Petter Naess
January 20, 2016
Going beyond previous investigations into urban land use and travel, Petter Næss presents new research from Denmark on residential location and travel to show how and why urban spatial structures affect people's travel behaviour. In a comprehensive case study of the Copenhagen metropolitan area, ...
Instruments of Planning: Tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Leshinsky, Crystal Legacy
August 10, 2015
Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning’s instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes. Because each instrument is unique and may be tailored to its own ...
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance: Street Level Practices for Urban Democracy
1st Edition
By David Laws, John Forester
April 16, 2015
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European city of ...
The Craft of Collaborative Planning: People working together to shape creative and sustainable places
1st Edition
By Jeff Bishop
March 13, 2015
Unlike books that focus solely on methods, The Craft of Collaborative Planning provides a detailed guide to designing and managing all aspects of the collaborative process, advocating for making collaborative work the norm. Beginning with a discussion of the political and legal context of ...
Planning and Conflict: Critical Perspectives on Contentious Urban Developments
1st Edition
Edited
By Enrico Gualini
February 09, 2015
Planning and Conflict discusses the reasons for conflicts around urban developments and analyzes their shape in contemporary cities. It offers an interdisciplinary framework for scholars to engage with the issue of planning conflicts, focusing on both empirical and theoretical inquiry. By ...
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China
1st Edition
By Fulong Wu
January 22, 2015
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the changes in China’s planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and informative details in language that is accessible enough for the undergraduate but thoroughly grounded in a wealth of research...
Reconsidering Localism
1st Edition
Edited
By Simin Davoudi, Ali Madanipour
January 13, 2015
"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from ...