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This work focuses on the practical issues and policies relating to planning and managing both built and natural environments. It addresses the needs to pursue a greater degree of integration between the subject matter and the international frameworks of environmental planning. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Urban and Regional Planning," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Urban and Regional Planning in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Urban and Regional Planning when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Urban and Regional Planning, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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Regional planning and government in the UK is undergoing a period of tremendous activity, with a wide range of new policies, innovative techniques and experiments being tested. This volume provides an overview of developments, describing and analyzing the legislative, political and economic contexts within which changes are occurring, and assessing the continuing difficulties that face planners and others operating in the new arrangements for regional planning. ... Read more

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The increasing interest in identity and ethnicity studies in social sciences has raised interest in the study of socio-spatial segregation. Paradigms and concepts that were introduced into scholarly debates on segregation on the one hand and new trends in different cities around the world, attracted a group of scholars from the commission on "Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow" to discuss theoretical and practical aspects of segregation. This volume is the result of two years' discussion on the issue, and presents 11 articles organized in three chapters. The first part investigates some innovative ideas concerning the study of segregation in cities that undergo globalization. The second part raises questions concerning the associations among segregation, poverty and policies, and the third part highlights patterns of segregation and desegregation in three countries - South Africa, China and Canada - each of them representing different aspects of multi-culturality and transformation. ... Read more

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This volume addresses the prominent role given to institution-building, institutional change and governance in the regional development strategies and policies. The establishment of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, and the arrival of regional development agencies in England highlighted the need to put the initiatives into some context, drawing on experience from across Europe on the critical factors in the determination of the potential and success of regions. Central to the discussions presented here by a group of European experts are the question of governance - how does an ongoing process of institution-building affect the ways in which regions and localities are governed, including questions of democracy, participation, regional self-determination, public-private partnerships, networks and accountability; and the consequences of new modes of governance and institutional change for regional development strategies and policies, particularly in the context of large-scale industrial restructuring and city-region and urban regeneration. ... Read more

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A study of planning in the UK, exploring agendas for the 21st century. The main body of the text addresses the key planning policy issues that have arisen during the New Labour government's first term of office. Four major areas are identified: the new institutional context; ensuring social inclusion and participation; promoting sustainability; and the debate over building at higher densities on brown field sites, an issue which encompasses both social and environmental concerns. ... Read more

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Covering the role of energy efficiency in housing and the formulation as well as implementation of policy, this work reviews both technical and non-technical aspects of energy efficiency in housing. Two case studies illustrate issues such as sustainability, ownership and planning. ... Read more