The Futures Of The City Region

Author : Michael Neuman,Angela Hull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317986287

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The Futures of the City Region by Michael Neuman,Angela Hull Pdf

Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental and corporate, strongly influences and structures the management of urban life. How we conceive the city region has intellectual and practical consequences. First, in helping us grasp rapidly changing realities; and second in facilitating the flow of resources, ideas and learning to enhance the quality of life of citizens. Two themes interweave through this collection, within this broad palette. First are the socio-spatial constructs and their relationship to the empirical evidence of change in the physical and functional aspects of urban form. Second is what they mean for the spatial scales of governance. This latter theme explores territorially based understandings of intervention and the changing set of political concerns in selected case studies. In efforts to address these issues and improve upon knowledge, this collection brings together international scholars building new data-driven, cross-disciplinary theories to create new images of the city region that may prove to supplement if not supplant old ones. The book illustrates the dialectical interplay of theory and fact, time and space, and spatial and institutional which expands on our intellectual grasp of the theoretical debates on ‘city-regions’ through ‘practical knowing’, citing examples from Europe, the United States, Australasia, and beyond. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Regional Studies.

Author : Robert Goodspeed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1558444009

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Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions by Robert Goodspeed Pdf

""Describes the emerging use of collaborative scenario planning practices in urban and regional planning, and includes case studies, an overview of digital tools, and a project evaluation framework. Concludes with a discussion of how scenarios can be used to address urban inequalities. Intended for a broad audience"--Provided by the publisher"--

Author : John Harrison,Daniel Galland,Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000462548

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Planning Regional Futures by John Harrison,Daniel Galland,Mark Tewdwr-Jones Pdf

Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned. This is in a context where planning is seen to face powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually and practically – in ways arguably not seen before: planning is no longer solely the domain of professional planners but opened-up to a diverse group of actors; the link between the study of cities and regions, which traditionally had a disciplinary home in planning schools and the like, steadily eroded as research increasingly takes place in interdisciplinary research institutes; the advent of real-time modelling posing fundamental challenges for the type of long-term perspective that planning has traditionally afforded; ‘regional planning’ and its mixed record of achievement; and, the link between ‘region’ and ‘planning’ becoming decoupled as alternative regional (and other spatial) approaches to planning have emerged. This book takes up the intellectual and practical challenge of planning regional futures, moving beyond the narrow confines of existing debate and providing a forum for debating what planning is, and should be, for in how we plan cities and regions. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Author : Undine Giseke,Maria Gerster-Bentaya,Frank Helten,Matthias Kraume,Dieter Scherer,Guido Spars,Fouad Amraoui,Abdelaziz Adidi,Said Berdouz,Mohemed Chlaida,Majid Mansour,Mohamed Mdafai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317910138

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Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions by Undine Giseke,Maria Gerster-Bentaya,Frank Helten,Matthias Kraume,Dieter Scherer,Guido Spars,Fouad Amraoui,Abdelaziz Adidi,Said Berdouz,Mohemed Chlaida,Majid Mansour,Mohamed Mdafai Pdf

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban growth centres today is more than an economic or social left-over or a niche practice. It is instead a complex system that offers multiple potentials for interaction with the urban system. Urban open space and agriculture can be linked to a productive green infrastructure – this forms new urban-rural linkages in the urbanizing region and helps shape the city. But in order to do this, agriculture has to be seen as an integral part of the urban fabric and it has to be put on the local agenda. Urban Agriculture for Growing City Regions takes the example of Casablanca, one of the fastest growing cities in North Africa, to investigate this approach. The creation of synergies between the urban and rural in an emerging megacity is demonstrated through pilot projects, design solutions, and multifunctional modules. These synergies assure greater resource efficiency; particularly regarding the use and reuse of water, and they strengthen regional food security and the social integration of multiple spheres. A transdisciplinary research approach brings together different scientific disciplines and local actors into a process of integrated knowledge production. The book will have a long lasting legacy and is essential reading for researchers, planners, practitioners and policy makers who are working on urban development and urban agricultural strategies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : PSU:000004915386

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The Future of the City Region by Anonim Pdf

Author : Doctor Edgar Pieterse
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136274

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City Futures by Doctor Edgar Pieterse Pdf

Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented. This book is a powerful indictment of the current consensus on how to deal with these challenges. Pieterse argues that the current 'shelter for all' and 'urban good governance' policies treat only the symptoms, not the causes of the problem. Instead, he claims, there is an urgent need to reinvigorate civil society in these cities, to encourage radical democracy, economic resilience, social resistance and environmental sustainability folded into the everyday concerns of marginalised people. Providing a dynamic picture of a cosmopolitan urban citizenship, this book is an essential guide to one of the new century's greatest challenges.

Author : Valeria Lingua,Verena Balz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030235734

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Shaping Regional Futures by Valeria Lingua,Verena Balz Pdf

This book discusses the role of regional design and visioning in the formation of regional territorial governance to offer a better understanding of (1) how a recognition of spatial dynamics and the visualization of spatial futures informs, and is informed by, planning frameworks and (2) how such design processes inform co-operation and collaboration on planning in metropolitan regions. It gathers theoretical reflections on these topics, and illustrates them by means of practical experiences in several European countries. Innovatively associating ideas with knowledge, it appeals to anyone with an interest in planning experiments in a post-regulative era. It aims at an increased understanding of how practices, engaged with the imagination of possible futures, support the creation of institutional capacity for strategic spatial planning at regional scales.

Author : Robert C. Brears
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 2334 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030877453

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The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures by Robert C. Brears Pdf

While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.

Author : John K. Boynton,British Council
Publisher : [Glasgow] : L. Hill
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cities & Towns
ISBN : UCAL:B4362378

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Growth and Change in the Future City Region by John K. Boynton,British Council Pdf

Author : John Harrison,Daniel Galland,Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000462616

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Planning Regional Futures by John Harrison,Daniel Galland,Mark Tewdwr-Jones Pdf

Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned. This is in a context where planning is seen to face powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually and practically – in ways arguably not seen before: planning is no longer solely the domain of professional planners but opened-up to a diverse group of actors; the link between the study of cities and regions, which traditionally had a disciplinary home in planning schools and the like, steadily eroded as research increasingly takes place in interdisciplinary research institutes; the advent of real-time modelling posing fundamental challenges for the type of long-term perspective that planning has traditionally afforded; ‘regional planning’ and its mixed record of achievement; and, the link between ‘region’ and ‘planning’ becoming decoupled as alternative regional (and other spatial) approaches to planning have emerged. This book takes up the intellectual and practical challenge of planning regional futures, moving beyond the narrow confines of existing debate and providing a forum for debating what planning is, and should be, for in how we plan cities and regions. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Regional Studies.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215027841

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Is There a Future for Regional Government? by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: ODPM: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee Pdf

Is there a future for regional Government? : Session 2005-06, Vol. 2: Written Evidence

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215033043

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Is there a future for regional government? by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Communities and Local Government Committee Pdf

Incorporating HCP 977-i to viii, session 2005-06. An earlier volume of written evidence published as HC 977-II, session 2005-06 (ISBN 9780215027849)

Author : Joe Ravetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134900992

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City-Region 2020 by Joe Ravetz Pdf

Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region. It translates principles into practice for achieving the necessary balance to ensure a higher standard of living and safe environment. The text presents: a 25-year horizon for the evolution and restructuring of the urban system; a focus for linkages and synergies between economic, social and environmental sectors; technical scenarios for land use, energy and material flows; spatial scenarios for each area and settlement type; and lateral thinking on cultural, information, localization and globalization trends. Also included are practical actions, methods and tools such as sustainability indicators and appraisals that can be applied anywhere in the western world.

Author : Timothy J. Dixon,Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781447371670

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Urban Futures by Timothy J. Dixon,Mark Tewdwr-Jones Pdf

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Author : Judith James,Jean Preece,Raúl Valdés-Cotera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319611303

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Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions by Judith James,Jean Preece,Raúl Valdés-Cotera Pdf

This book proposes an alternative strategy to improve and sustain prosperity, through the creation of an entrepreneurial culture in learning cities or city regions. The edited collection provides insights into how entrepreneurship, education, job creation and social inclusion can be aligned through entrepreneurial learning, in the context of territorial development. With rich and varied contributions from a wide field, including policy makers, entrepreneurs, an investment banker, leaders of universities and councils, the voluntary sector, scientists, educators and students, it reviews and assesses how learning cities and regions may become more prosperous by investing in the development of entrepreneurial skills throughout lifelong learning. Reinforced by examples on developing and retaining entrepreneurial people, this book contributes to our understanding of how entrepreneurial learning can be fostered in different city and city-region contexts. It makes an interesting contribution to the field in terms of mapping out complex issues and testing the practical validity of the concept, while also providing rich and insightful case studies centred on the Welsh experience with entrepreneurial learning city regions. The high quality international contributions demonstrate the new worldwide interest in developing an entrepreneurial culture for the benefit of a city or region, rather than an entrepreneurial mind-set for individual benefit. This fascinating subject will be of interest to many social scientists, policymakers, and practitioners. It will be found especially valuable for professionals involved in economic, inclusive and sustainable city or regional development.