Description
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates planning as an international discipline and practice with an important role to play in delivering sustainable development across different scales in diverse global contexts. A series of chapters covers past episodes of international influence and exchange in planning, key concepts, research strategies, methods in contemporary international planning studies, as well as ways of characterising and comparing planning systems.
The authors explore the emergence of a global agenda for planning, through the activities and goal setting of international organisations, and professional and civil society networks. Transnational and cross-border contexts and initiatives in different global regions, and their relevance to planning, are investigated. An invaluable resource for students and researchers in planning studies, this book offers an important reflection on the internationalisation of planning practice, education, and scholarship, and the future prospects for planning and planning studies from an international perspective.
Author: Olivier Sykes, David Shaw, Brian Webb
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/29/2023
Pages: 279
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9789811954061
ISBN10: 9811954062
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Political Science | Public Policy | General
About the Author
Dr. Olivier Sykes is Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at the University of Liverpool and Editor in Chief of Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). At Liverpool, he leads the module International Planning Studies which received the 2014 AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award.
Professor David Shaw is Professor of Planning at the University of Liverpool. He has considerable experience of international planning practice having previously worked in Africa, extensively on European spatial planning, and in Asia.
Dr. Brian Webb is Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning at Prifysgol Caerdydd/Cardiff University. He has worked in the field of planning in three countries and engaged in comparative urban and regional planning research across Europe, North America, Japan, and South Korea.