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"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"--

"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 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

"This is the sixth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning throughout the entire 20th and first part of the 21st centuries. The extensively revised edition incorporates the most important developments in recent times: debates on economic rebalancing and national infrastructure including high speed rail, energy, millennium projects, Celtic devolution, European influence, impact of London on nation. A new chapter "Planning for cities and city regions 1990-2017": includes new material on housing, localism, neighbourhood planning, privatisation, city modernism, reform, Devo and city deals and metro mayors. Urban and Regional Planning will be invaluable to undergraduate as well as postgraduate Planning students. It will prove useful in a variety of built environment areas such as Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Real Estate where planning is taught"--

Introduction to current trends -- Regional planning in the United States: an overview -- Regional planning for environmental issues -- Regional planning for economic development and housing -- Regional planning for climate change and public health -- Profiles in regional integrated planning -- Techniques for implementing regional plans -- The future of regional plans

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.