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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 reviewing different perspectives for
planners to engage with conflicts, and not simply mediate or avoid
them, Planning and Conflict provides a theoretically informed look
forward to the future of engaged, responsive city development that
involves all its stakeholders.
Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development
of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book
addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings
together a range of different national experiences. Helpfully
divided into three sections, Framing Strategic Urban Projects sets
out the study framework, with its social, policy and institutional
contexts; uses up-to-date European case studies to highlight
different planning issues, including new-urbanism, information
networks and public partnerships; and finally makes good-practice
recommendations. Offering a systematic comparison of a wide variety
of projects and providing useful case study material of these
large-scale urban projects and recommendations, this book is
essential reading for planners, policy makers and students
interested in how to make strategic urban projects work
effectively.
This title was first published in 2001. The hierarchical approach
of regional planning institutions is facing crisis. In an era of
globalization, the conditions of urban growth dynamics is dependent
on innovation, entrepreneurial and economic structures and
socio-political and institutional forces. As a result, the notion
of 'region' has become more about social interaction than
geographical location. This volume examines how institutions must
adapt and modify their roles to suit this changing pattern of
development, by implementing more consensus-based approaches. Using
in-depth analysis of an innovative state-sponsored approach to
growth management planning in the USA, it assesses the
effectiveness and success of putting into place more flexible,
concerted and negotiated approaches to issues such as
inter-institutional relations and inter-governmental co-ordination.
In what will be an essential contribution to the debate surrounding
the future of regional planning and the role of institutions, the
volume highlights the limits and opportunities of these new policy
approaches and will be a key resource for planners, policy makers
and researchers alike.
In the 1990s, large-scale urban projects were launched in almost
every metropolitan region of Europe, but it is not clear that they
have achieved their aims of innovative integration of economic and
sustainable objectives. In order to successfully coordinate a
collection of single-purposed, public and private interests in
large metropolitan area's required intelligent strategies of
coordination and governance in a world dominated by fragmentary
coalitions of power and interest. It also required institutional
innovation by crossing through the barriers of the sector-minded,
single-issue approaches typical of statutory territorial agencies.
This book draws on research findings to ask crucial questions
relating to the performance of large-scale strategic urban projects
incuding how do private sector coalitions produce new economic
spaces in regional settings, how might these private interests
become integrated in collective preferences? What are the
competitive alternatives? How can local governance make a
difference? How are strategies of "mutual exchange of interests"
made successful? And which forces are included and which are
excluded in the crucial coalitions of framing, decision-making and
organization large-scale urban projects?
The first part of the book sets out the framework for the study and
looks at the social, policy and institutional context of strategic
urban projects in Europe. Part two uses case studies to discuss
recent experiences of large-scale projects in European
city-regions. Each case study chapter highlights a different
planning issue including: new urbanism, the use of culture to drive
the urban economy, information networks, fostering
entrepreneurship, public partnerships, technopoles and creating
large-scale redevelopment by connecting micro-interventions. Part
three assesses the findings of the research exercise and makes
recommendations for good practice.
This title was first published in 2001. The hierarchical approach
of regional planning institutions is facing crisis. In an era of
globalization, the conditions of urban growth dynamics is dependent
on innovation, entrepreneurial and economic structures and
socio-political and institutional forces. As a result, the notion
of 'region' has become more about social interaction than
geographical location. This volume examines how institutions must
adapt and modify their roles to suit this changing pattern of
development, by implementing more consensus-based approaches. Using
in-depth analysis of an innovative state-sponsored approach to
growth management planning in the USA, it assesses the
effectiveness and success of putting into place more flexible,
concerted and negotiated approaches to issues such as
inter-institutional relations and inter-governmental co-ordination.
In what will be an essential contribution to the debate surrounding
the future of regional planning and the role of institutions, the
volume highlights the limits and opportunities of these new policy
approaches and will be a key resource for planners, policy makers
and researchers alike.
There is little question today that processes of globalization
affect national and local economies, governance processes, and
conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions
of the world. In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes
are occurring according to a rationale which attempts to combine
strategies of state-supported development with increasing
local-regional governmental decentralization and autonomy. Against
this background, the issue of metropolitan development is being
redefined worldwide, along with its institutional frameworks, modes
of governance, policy instruments, and spatial planning strategies.
The overarching assumption of this volume is that 'metropolitan
space', far from being consolidated as a policy object, is
currently being redefined and in some instances 'constructed' and
contested as a scale, through a variety of policy practices related
to spatial-economic development objectives. Through case studies
drawn from across four continents, the authors reveal a range of
interesting cross-national commonalities concerning the power that
state actors, situated at various spatial scales, exert as agents
in these processes. This volume interrogates key research issues
raised by these developments, and is intended as a contribution to
the establishment of a globally comparative analysis of the
construction of metropolitan spaces and scales under conditions of
globalization and neoliberalization.
There is little question today that processes of globalization
affect national and local economies, governance processes, and
conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions
of the world. In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes
are occurring according to a rationale which attempts to combine
strategies of state-supported development with increasing
local-regional governmental decentralization and autonomy. Against
this background, the issue of metropolitan development is being
redefined worldwide, along with its institutional frameworks, modes
of governance, policy instruments, and spatial planning strategies.
The overarching assumption of this volume is that 'metropolitan
space', far from being consolidated as a policy object, is
currently being redefined and in some instances 'constructed' and
contested as a scale, through a variety of policy practices related
to spatial-economic development objectives. Through case studies
drawn from across four continents, the authors reveal a range of
interesting cross-national commonalities concerning the power that
state actors, situated at various spatial scales, exert as agents
in these processes. This volume interrogates key research issues
raised by these developments, and is intended as a contribution to
the establishment of a globally comparative analysis of the
construction of metropolitan spaces and scales under conditions of
globalization and neoliberalization.
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 reviewing different perspectives for
planners to engage with conflicts, and not simply mediate or avoid
them, Planning and Conflict provides a theoretically informed look
forward to the future of engaged, responsive city development that
involves all its stakeholders.
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