Spatial planning refers to the long-term planning and overall arrangement of land resources
and space layout under the jurisdiction of a country or region government, aiming to achieve …

Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the
changes in China's planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and …

Territorial cohesion is a shared EU competence, but what is territory? This paper seeks to
alert planners—in particular those involved in European spatial planning—that common …

Whether spatial planning systems are equipped to cope with contemporary regional and
urban challenges is strongly dependent on their capacity to promote integration between …

Education for urban, regional and spatial planning has become a regular subject throughout
most European nations; this can be attributed in part to European policies promoting …

In the 3rd edition of the leading introductory textbook to planning theory, Allmendinger
provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of planning theories, how these relate to …

This is the sixth edition of the classic text for students of geography and urban and regional
planning. It gives an historical overview of the changes in cities and regions and in the …

It is fifty years since the first edition of this book was published. There have been many
changes in the style and content of planning in the UK since then and this is reflected in the …

The peri-urban (sometimes also called the urban fringe) may be the dominant urban form
and spatial planning challenge of the twenty-first century. In older industrial or post-industrial …

Since the late 1970s, neoliberalisation and market-friendly policies have been affecting the
way cities develop and function. Neoliberal principles based on market reliance seem to …