Globalization initiates competition between spaces. Cities and regions develop strategies to enhance territorial attractiveness and...
Books of February 2011
Edited by Francesco Lo Piccolo and Huw Thomas, Ethics and Planning Research, Ashgate, 2009, 276p.
Published at: 17 February 2011
The consideration of ethics in social research has gained increasing prominence in the past few years, particularly research which seeks to inform...
Edited By Simin Davoudi, Jenny Crawford and Abid Mehmood, Planning for Climate Change - Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners
Published at: 16 February 2011
Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened its environmental dimension and has...
David Evers, The Politics of Peripheral Shopping Centre Development in Northwest Europe in the 1990s: The Cases of Manchester, Amsterdam, and Oberhausen
Published at: 15 February 2011
This book takes a new institutionalist approach in explaining the planning and development of large retail developments in Europe.More information
Gabriele Tatzberger, A Global Economic Integration Zone in Central Europe? Vienna-Bratislava-Györ as a Laboratory for EU Territorial Cohesion Policy
Published at: 14 February 2011
Since borders that have been closed for over forty years are opening up, Central Europe is undergoing dramatic changes and facing huge challenges....
Martina Schretzenmayr, The History of Swiss Spatial Planning - sucessfull or not?
Published at: 13 February 2011
34 pioneers and witnesses to history of Swiss spatial planning who created "spatial facts" in the 1960s and 1970s had been interviewed in a...
Frank van der Hoeven, Michael Loveday, Stefan van der Spek, Reinhard Kallenbach, Sam Gullam, Thierry Burkhard, Jonas Schmid and Pascal Mages, Street-level desires, discovering the city on foot Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Faculty of Architec
Published at: 12 February 2011
Frank van der Hoeven, Michael Loveday, Stefan van der Spek, Reinhard Kallenbach, Sam Gullam, Thierry Burkhard, Jonas Schmid and Pascal Mages,...
John Pendlebury, Newcastle University, Conservation in the Age of Consensus UK, september 2008, London: Routledge (RTPI Library Series)
Published at: 11 February 2011
John Pendlebury provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation in the historic environment both in its...
Davoudi, S. and Strange, I. (eds), Conceptions of Space and Place in Strategic Spatial Planning, London, Routledge (RTPI Library Series), 2009
Published at: 11 February 2011
This book examines the ways in which the new wave of spatial planning in the latter part of the 20th Century has been informed by the concepts of...
J. van Schaick and S.C. van der Spek (eds), Urbanism on Track – Application of Tracking Technologies in Urbanism
Published at: 10 February 2011
Tracking technologies such as GPS, mobile phone tracing, video and RFID monitoring are rapidly becoming part of daily life. Technological progress...
