Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops 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 Strategies offers 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(s): P. Healey
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 352
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14
1. THE PROJECT OF STRATEGIC SPATIAL PLANNING FOR URBAN AREAS......Page 16
2. URBAN ‘REGIONS’ AND THEIR GOVERNANCE......Page 28
3. THE STRATEGIC SHAPING OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AMSTERDAM......Page 52
4. THE STRUGGLE FOR STRATEGIC FLEXIBILITY IN URBAN PLANNING IN MILAN......Page 92
5. TRANSFORMATION IN THE ‘CAMBRIDGE SUB-REGION’......Page 134
6. STRATEGY-MAKING IN A RELATIONAL WORLD......Page 186
7. SPATIAL IMAGINATIONS AND URBAN ‘REGION’ STRATEGIES......Page 216
8. GETTING TO KNOW AN URBAN ‘REGION’......Page 250
9. RELATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND URBAN GOVERNANCE......Page 280
APPENDIX: ON METHOD......Page 304
REFERENCES......Page 312
INDEX......Page 336
