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.
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 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 ...
Reviving Critical Planning Theory: Dealing with Pressure, Neo-liberalism, and Responsibility in Communicative Planning
1st Edition
By Tore Øivin Sager
October 15, 2012
Discussing some of the most vexing criticism of communicative planning theory (CPT), this book goes on to suggest how theorists and planners can respond to it. Looking at issues of power, politics and ethics in relation to planning, this book is for both critics and advocates of CPT, with lessons ...
English Regional Planning 2000-2010: Lessons for the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Corinne Swain, Tim Marshall, Tony Baden
August 14, 2012
English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning during these years, whereby large steps forward were made, but where ...
An Anatomy of Sprawl: Planning and Politics in Britain
1st Edition
By Nicholas A. Phelps
April 05, 2012
Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation ...