ABSTRACT

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.

The topics they address include the effects of globalization on world cities, metropolitan planning in France and Australia, and new research in pedestrian and traffic design. The breadth of the topics covered in this book will appeal to all those with an interest in urban and regional planning, providing a springboard for further debate and research. The papers focus particularly on themes of inclusion, urban transformation, metropolitan planning, and urban design.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) book series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and its member national and transnational planning schools associations.

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Issues and options for the twenty-first century

part |81 pages

Inclusion and exclusion

chapter 3|27 pages

Defending illicit livelihoods

Youth resistance in Harare's contested spaces

chapter 4|26 pages

Unsettling insurgency

Reflections on women's insurgent practices in South Africa

part |64 pages

Urban transformations

chapter 5|16 pages

Constructing “world-class” cities

Hubs of globalization and high finance

chapter 6|27 pages

Are first-generation suburbs of Mexico City shrinking?

The case of Naucalpan

chapter 7|19 pages

Towns in the forest

The “large objects” as expressions of the informational technical-scientific environment in the Amazonian space

part |71 pages

Rethinking metropolitan frameworks

chapter 8|24 pages

Urban forms, mobility, and segregation

A Lille-Lyon-Marseille comparison

chapter 9|20 pages

Metropolitan strategic planning

An Australian paradigm?

chapter 10|25 pages

Reorienting urban development?

Structural obstruction to new urban forms

part |70 pages

Designing cities

chapter 11|29 pages

Safe urban form

Revisiting the relationship between community design and traffic safety

chapter 13|23 pages

Experiential planning

A practitioner's account of Vancouver's success