Greenways is a generic term that has been applied to a wide range of landscape planning
strategies, concepts, and plans. While there is some consensus emerging on the benefits of …

Planning for sustainable cities is a complex process addressing the fundamental areas of
economic, environmental and socially-equitable sustainability. This chapter focuses on the …

There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration
strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and …

Polycentric urban regions, or urban networks, are often associated with the notion of
synergy, the assumption being that the individual cities in these collections of distinct but …

The relationship between political judgment and science-based expertise is a troubled one.
In the media three cliché images compete. The business-as-usual political story is that, in …

Evaluation and implementation studies have a well-established tradition. For evaluation in
general, this tradition seems to offer a clear-cut research design. This is not true for …

Landscape planning can be defined as the practice of planning for the sustainable use of
physical, biological, and cultural resources. It seeks the protection of unique, scarce, and …

Many of the key notions associated with spatial planning are essentially 'fuzzy'in their nature.
For example, while almost everyone accepts 'sustainability'as an important goal of planning …

This thesis investigates greenways as an emerging strategy for landscape planning. In the
thesis, greenways are researched through case studies in the Netherlands and the USA and …

The objective of this paper is to review briefly the theory of contemporary sustainable
landscape planning, to present a typology of landscape-planning methods and apply the …