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.
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 ...
Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory
1st Edition
By John Friedmann
February 18, 2011
For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself. Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the ...
Implementing Sustainability: The New Zealand Experience
1st Edition
By Caroline L. Miller
February 01, 2011
New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently. This book examines the lessons that can be learned by planning practitioners ...
Land and Limits: Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process
2nd Edition
By Susan Owens, Richard Cowell
February 01, 2011
The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy. In the decade since the book was first conceived,...
Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Stijn Oosterlynck, Jef Van den Broeck, Louis Albrechts, Frank Moulaert, Ann Verhetsel
December 20, 2010
Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and ...
Cohesion, Coherence, Cooperation: European Spatial Planning Coming of Age?
1st Edition
By Andreas Faludi
November 19, 2010
Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This book examines the most recent of these, the concept of territorial cohesion. Territorial cohesion is the pursuit of balanced development, competitiveness...
Transport Matters: Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions
1st Edition
By Angela Hull
September 17, 2010
Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and ...
Effective Practice in Spatial Planning
1st Edition
By Janice Morphet
August 02, 2010
After years of being regarded as a regulatory tool, spatial planning is now a key agent in delivering better places for the future. Dealing with the role of spatial planning in major change such as urban extensions or redevelopment, this book asks how it can deliver at the local level. ...
Grotton Revisited: Planning in Crisis?
1st Edition
By Steve Ankers, David Kaiserman, Chris Shepley
July 30, 2010
Some thirty years ago the small Metropolitan County of Grotton found itself bathed in the bright glare of publicity as The Grotton Papers lifted the lid on the inner workings of the six planning departments of this hitherto little remarked corner of England. The intervening years have seen ...
Crossing Borders: International Exchange and Planning Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Patsy Healey, Robert Upton
March 22, 2010
The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book. It raises questions about why and how some ideas and practices attract international attention, and about the invention processes which go on when ...