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This comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK is the essential, up-to-date text for students interested in all aspects of this increasingly influential subject

Spatial planning at the regional level is a particularly good example of 'centralization versus decentralization' in a federal system. In one respect the region is dependent on the central level, as far as its legal bases, organizational forms, and planning tasks are concerned; but the cities and counties should be allowed to specify the functions they perform in their own region. This is the crux of the conflict in finding an effective balance between centralization and decentralization. Solutions to date in the FRG have favored a progressive centralization. Because of the increasing economic and ecological problems with which the regions are faced, this centralist solution is no longer tenable and decentralizing reforms are now required and under discussion. These concern the institutional organization and functions of the regions, a mobilization of the capacities available in the respective regions for solving their problems, plus a gradual shift to new region-specific planning. Thus, changes are occurring in regional planning which pave the way for a more decentralized planning process. However, in spite of the new understanding, even at central level, that the regions are capable of contributing efficient solutions to actual problems, these changes have not yet achieved a breakthrough in planning practice.

Frontmatter -- Preface by the Director of UNRISD / McGranahan, Donald V. -- Foreword by the Editor -- Contents -- PART ONE: PAPERS -- 1. Contact systems and regional development / Törnqvist, Gunnar -- 2. Regional information and regional planning in Latin America / Odell, Peter R. -- 3. Regional information and regional planning in Mexico / Carrillo-Arronte, R. / Grosman, V. -- 4. Regional information and regional planning in Tanzania / Lundqvist, Jan -- 5.The regional analysis problem / Leven, C.L. / Legler, J.B. / Shapiro, P. -- PART TWO: CASE STUDIES -- 1. Regional statistics in Poland: Current problems and development prospects / Kawalec, Wincenty -- 2. Information systems for regional development in Sweden / Hermansen, Tormod -- 3. Information systems for regional development in Chile / Boisier, Sergio -- 4. Regional information, regional statistics and regional planning in India / Pal, Manindra Nath -- Biography of the contributors

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Biographies -- About the Author -- Advance Praise -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Art and Science of City and Regional Planning -- Introduction -- Scientific and Creative Planning Thinking -- What Is City and Regional Planning? -- Planners' Roles -- The City and Regional Planning Profession -- Planning Education -- Planning Specializations -- City and Regional Planning Research and Analytic Methods -- Summary -- Concepts -- People -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Learning

"City and Regional Planning provides a clearly written and lavishly illustrated overview of the theory and practice of city and regional planning. With material on the globalization and the world city system and provides examples from other countries, the book has been written with the needs of readers worldwide who seek an overview of city and regional planning. Chapters cover the history of cities and city and regional planning, urban design and placemaking, comprehensive plans, planning politics and plan implementation, planning vision, and environmental, transportation, and housing planning. The book pays special attention to diversity, social justice, and collaborative planning. Topics include current practice in resilience, transit-oriented development, complexity in planning, spatial equity, globalization, and advances in planning methods. It is aimed at U.S. graduate and undergraduate city and regional planning, geography, urban design, urban studies, civil engineering and other students and practitioners. It includes extensive material on current practice in planning for climate change. Each chapter includes a case study, a biography of an important planner, lists of concepts and important people and an list of books, article, videos, and other suggestions for further learning"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Planning, planners and plans -- Chapter 2 The origins: urban growth -- Chapter 3 The seers: pioneer thinkers in urban planning -- Chapter 4 The creation of the postwar British planning machine -- Chapter 5 National/regional planning since 1945 -- Chapter 6 Planning for cities and city regions since 1945 -- Chapter 7 Planning in Western Europe since 1945 -- Chapter 8 Planning in the United States since 1945 -- Chapter 9 The planning process reshaped -- Chapter 10 A future for urban and regional planning -- Index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Theorizations; 1 Planning Theory and Practice: Reflections on the Right to the City; 2 Possible Worlds: Henri Lefebvre and the Right to the City; 3 Participation, Urban Planning, and Urban Studies: Four Decades of Debates and Experiments Since S.R. Arnstein's A Ladder of Citizen Participation; Peripheries; 4 Humanism, Creativity, and Rights: Invoking Henri Lefebvre's Right to the City in the Tension Presented by Informal Settlements in South Africa Today; 5 Housing and Urban Growth in Guadalajara, Mexico.