Books in the Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series series

This is an examination of the changing economic geography of southern Africa, which is defined in this volume as constituted by South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. This study area of southern Africa represents one of the poorest regions of the world.

The complex, multi-faceted process of globalization has profound implications for planning. In this text these are explored in relation to the urban, regional and environmental problems that planning faces, the changes in planning theory and the nature of planning practice and professionalism.

Bringing together the leading researchers into 'geocomputation', this edited volume provides an up-to-date overview of the development of new artificial intelligence principles and technologies used for the analysis, development and evaluation of urban planning policies and programmes.

The contributors to this volume examine the means by which local government agencies secure the infrastructure needed for modern urban areas. This is particularly important in a British context because the practice of obtaining such facilities may suborn planning ethics.

A study of the north east of England. It has its origins in its editors' interest in debates about the "re-emergence" of the region as a basic unit of economic analysis and as the sphere most suited to the interaction of political, social and economic processes in an era of "globalization".

Bringing together case studies from several European countries, this book provides an examination of the evolution of European spatial policy. It examines institutional change, particularly Europeanization, European governance and EU enlargement.

Relates to our perceptions of the positions (or 'place') of ourselves and other people in the world in which we live and how these perceptions affect our actions and interactions with places and people. This book implies that a web of complex processes links the physical, the social and the mental.

The New Labour government has made an institutional turn, from doing things to people, to enabling them to do things for themselves. This self-help approach is most clear in areas such as health, pensions and education. This text explores how it can be applied to deprived urban neighbourhoods.

Aims to connect elements of cultural and planning theories to explain differences and peculiarities among EU member states. This work introduces a 'culturized planning model' to consider the 'rules of the game', how culture affects planning practices not only on an explicit 'surface' but also on a 'hidden' implicit level.

Planning this book stems from a research project financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research (MIUR) which has been carried out in the period 1999-2002.

The notion of the region and its significance is much debated and contested. Illustrated with a wide range of European case studies, this volume questions the external delimitation and the internal constitution of regions and critically analyses the societal processes circumscribing ways in which regions are created, maintained and undermined.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and practitioners from both sides of the border to discuss the Dublin-Belfast corridor and the associated challenges of cross-border development from economic, geographic, regional studies, sociological and planning perspectives.

Focusing on British urban policy, this book examines the theoretical and practical issues in the monitoring or evaluation of public policy. It argues that as a result of the "value for money" ideology influencing urban policy, various conflicts have arisen in both policy and implementation.