Spatial Planning and Urban Development Critical Perspectives

His most recent publications include: Innovation in Planning. Italian Experiences, Actar, Barcelona, 2006; I Limiti del Possibile. Governo del Territorio e Qualità dello Sviluppo, Donzelli, Rome, 2009. Davide Ponzini received his PhD in Urban Planning from the Politecnico di Milano where he is curre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Palermo, Pier Carlo, Ponzini, Davide (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
Series:Urban and Landscape Perspectives
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Urban Development and Planning: Issues and Dilemmas
  • The Topic of Study
  • The Many Faces of Planning
  • A Crossroads with Many Dimensions
  • Emerging Questions
  • The Course of Our Discussion
  • Unfinished Projects for Disciplinary Foundation
  • The Rise and Crisis of Planning Theory
  • Urban Design: The Lost Object
  • Decision-Centred Views
  • The Social Rootedness of Urban Planning
  • The Interactive Turn
  • The Collaborative Shift
  • Escaping into Irrationality
  • Designing the Possible
  • Mediterranean Planning Cultures: Italy
  • Characteristics of the Italian Model
  • Towards a Planning Science?
  • City Design
  • Reformist Mainstream
  • The Challenges for Policy Making
  • Reconsidering Policy Design
  • Critical Issues and Perspectives
  • Planning, Implementation and Policy Tools
  • Urban Regulation: Critical Issues
  • Sense and Limits of Spatial Visioning
  • Urban Development Projects in a Strategic Framework
  • Rethinking Spatial Planning and Urban Development
  • Choosing the Paradigm
  • The Quality in Spatial Development.