Planning Regional Futures by John Harrison, Daniel Galland, M... - 9780367705756

Taylor & Francis

Planning Regional FuturesAuthor(s): John Harrison, Daniel Galland, Mark Tewdwr-Jones\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367705756, 978-0367705756\nSynopsis\nPlanning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned.\n\nThis is in a context where planning is seen to face powerful challenges professionally, intellectually and practically in ways arguably not seen before: planning is no longer solely the domain of professional planners but opened-up to a diverse group of actors; the link between the study of cities and regions, which traditionally had a disciplinary home in planning schools and the like, steadily eroded as research increasingly takes place in interdisciplinary research institutes; the advent of real-time modelling posing fundamental challenges for the type of long-term perspective that planning ha.