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The development of smart transport technologies, methods, strategies and infrastructures has drawn much attention in recent years, owing to the rise of smart cities paradigms and the rapid technological advancements in the transport sector. New transport technologies create opportunities and challenges for English cities to move towards a more sustainable and integrated future. Smart governance and interventions in the English metropolitan areas are reviewed to provide a background of the smart city and transport development in the UK. Despite the increasing commercial and political attention, there is still a lack of understanding and proposals for a robust framework to evaluate the smart transport system. It is challenging to build a toolbox that suits both academics and practitioners when developing transport interventions and investments. This paper proposes a comprehensive and up-to-date framework to assess smart transport development in cities. A systematic literature review is conducted to identify the most used indicators and important indices. New indicators that illustrate trending themes are added to the existing toolbox. In total, 49 indicators are listed in this study, including five new ones. We also show several aspects and the overall performance in the new evaluation framework by aggregating indicators into indices in the following groups: 1) private, public and emergency transport indices; 2) accessibility, sustainability and innovation indices; and 3) a composite index. The new evaluation framework is applied in eleven English metropolitan areas. The empirical results show that Greater London has the best development in smart transport, followed by West Midlands and West of England. The findings can provide useful insights for metropolitan authorities and their transport authorities when key devolution strategies are in place and substantial investment packages are considered.

Much of the focus of research on creative industries' influence upon urban land use has been around the investment in specific regeneration projects or flagship developments rather than addressing the nature and location of the infrastructure, networks and agents engaged. In other words, the complexity of the institutional/temporal and spatial interaction among the involved elements is overlooked or not well understood. This paper presents an agent-based model named CID-USST (Creative Industries Development-Urban Spatial Structure Transformation) that examines the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban spatial structure by outputting a set of adaptive scenarios through time and space. It reveals that the spatial distribution of both the creative firms and the creative workers evolves in a repeating up-and-down pattern even when the exogenous urban economic condition is set to be steady. Moreover, the analysis also points to the policy implication that more open job/rent market information will lead to more rapid geographical clustering of the creative firms and the creative workers, which possibly may reduce the time cost in their spatial evolvement, and perhaps accelerate innovation if we accept that geographical proximity can enhance knowledge and information spill-over.

International audience ; This work reviews recent research efforts in the area of land reform in the developing world and comparatively evaluates different planning approaches per country. The historical antecedents, socio-economic circumstances, legal framework and different degrees of governmental intervention influencing the access to land in the countryside are covered. A snapshot of empirical findings in a group of developing countries highlights the need to systematically adopt regional planning strategies that are able to maximise the positive socio-economic impacts of the schemes. It is also concluded that a combination of market and non-market approaches to land reform could be beneficial for developmental purposes.

1. Planning and complexity : an introduction / Gert de Roo -- 2. Being or becoming? That is the question! Confronting complexity with contemporary planning theory / Gert de Roo -- 3. Dealing with society's 'big messes' / Jens-Peter Grunau and Walter L. Schonwandt -- 4. Complexity in spatial planning practice and theory : the case of Kiruna Mining Town / Kristina L. Nilsson -- 5. Complex systems, evolutioanry planning? / Luca Bertolini -- 6. Complexity in city systems : understanding, evolution, and design / Michael Batty -- 7. Emergence, spatial order, transaction costs and planning / Chris Webster -- 8. Spatial planning processes : applying a dynamic complex systems perspective / Menno Huys and Marcel van Gils -- 9. The awakening of complexity in conceptualisations of space in planning / Janneke E. Hagens -- 10. Process and transient scenarios in collaborative planning : managing the time dimension / Adele Celino and Grazia Concilio -- 11. Complexity and cellular automaton : exploring its practical application / Elisabete A. Silva -- 12. Complexity and travel behaviour : modelling influence of social interactions on travellers' behaviour using a multi-agent simulation / Yos Sunitiyoso, Erel Avineri and Kiron Chatterjee -- 13. Complexity theory and transport planning : fractal traffic networks / Erel Avineri -- 14. Going beyond the metaphor of the machine : complexity and participatory ecological design / Joanne Tippett -- 15. Rethinking brownfields : discourses, networks and space-time / Nikos Karadimitriou, Joe Doak and Elisabete Cidre -- 16. Urban governance and social complexity / Joris Van Wezemael -- 17. Waves of complexity : theory, models and practice / Elisabete A. Silva.

Bringing together a team of leading spatial theorists, this book argues that a view of environments which are confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes is more realistic than the notion that an environment is simply a planner's creation, and that recognising the 'complexity' of our environment offers an entirely new perspective on our world, our environment, planning theory and practice, and on the role of planners.