Towards Australian regional turnaround: insights into sustainably accommodating post-pandemic urban growth in regional towns and cities

M Guaralda, G Hearn, M Foth, T Yigitcanlar, S Mayere… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has made many urban policymakers, planners, and scholars, all
around the globe, rethink conventional, neoliberal growth strategies of cities. The trend of …

Regional planning: an arena of interests, institutions and relations

E Purkarthofer, A Humer, R Mäntysalo - Regional Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This special issue approaches regional planning as a contested arena of strategic planning.
With this view, we transcend the idea that regional planning is purely a matter of scale and …

[HTML][HTML] Action-oriented planning methods as a tool for improving regional governance in Switzerland: Evidence from the Sisslerfeld area

T Papamichail, A Perić - Land Use Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Faced with challenges such as rapid transformation of existing settlements, reorganisation of
mobility patterns, and climate change mitigation management, the governance of spatial …

Subnational and dynamic conceptualisations of planning culture: the culture of regional planning and regional planning cultures in Finland

E Purkarthofer, A Humer, H Mattila - Planning Theory & Practice, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This article furthers the unconsolidated theoretical discourse on planning cultures, focusing
on the region as a highly dynamic planning scale. The article discusses regional planning …

[HTML][HTML] Emptying the future, claiming space: the southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania as a spatial imaginary for strategic coupling processes

G Tups, P Dannenberg - Geoforum, 2021 - Elsevier
This article contributes an economic geography perspective on the envisioning and
implementing of mega-infrastructure projects in Africa. Focusing on development corridors …

Positioning regional planning across Europe

L Smas, P Schmitt - Regional Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Many scholars argue that regional planning has lost its political significance and practical
relevance in recent years. Based on a comparative analysis of formal regional planning in …

Urban futures: Planning for city foresight and city visions

TJ Dixon, M Tewdwr-Jones - Urban futures, 2021 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Throughout history, and in times of continuing uncertainty, writers, artists, film-makers and
others have attempted to make sense of the future. Some have argued that, by its very …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a virtual statecraft: Housing targets and the governance of urban housing markets

M Raco, C Ward, F Brill, D Sanderson, S Freire-Trigo… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper we draw on the findings of a mixed methods research project that has
examined the production, regulation, and delivery of housing in London. Our aim is to …

Breaking with the spatial-cycle model: the shift towards 'syncurbanization'in polycentric urban regions

A Humer, RV Cardoso, E Meijers - Regional Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper criticizes traditional models of urban–regional expansion, which depart from
monocentric ideals of urban core and ring. The original spatial-cycle model (SCM) suggests …

Evaluating regional spatial imaginaries: the Oxford–Cambridge Arc

D Valler, AEG Jonas, L Robinson - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The process of imagination is central to region formation, underpinning the spatial definition
and territorial bounding of areas, the development of spatial identity and institutional …