Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies: Towards a Relational Planning for Our Times

by Healey; Patsy

• ISBN13: 9780415380348
• ISBN10: 0415380340
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1/5/2007
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategiesdevelops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas. Well-illustrated chapters weave together conceptual development, experience and implications for future practice and address the challenge of urban and metropolitan planning and development. Useful for students, social scientists and policy makers, Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategiesoffers concepts and detailed cases of interest to those involved in policy development and management, as well as providing a foundation of ideas and experiences, an account of the place-focused practices of governance and an approach to the analysis of governance dynamics. For those in the planning field itself, this book re-interprets the role of planning frameworks in linking spatial patterns to social dynamics with twenty-first century relevance.

Author Biography

Patsy Healey is Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. VII
Preface	p. IX
Acknowledgements	p. XIII
The project of strategic spatial planning for urban areas	p. 1
Urban 'regions' and their governance	p. 13
The strategic shaping of urban development in Amsterdam	p. 37
The struggle for strategic flexibility in urban planning in Milan	p. 77
Transformation in the 'Cambridge Sub-Region'	p. 119
Strategy-making in a relational world	p. 171
Spatial imaginations and urban 'region' strategies	p. 201
Getting to know an urban 'region'	p. 235
Relational complexity and urban governance	p. 265
On method	p. 289
References	p. 297
Index	p. 321
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