Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

Volume 1

Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9781134278428
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Urban Planning & Landscaping

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest in urban and regional planning will find this collection valuable in opening new avenues for research and debate.This book is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), and the nine planning school associations it represents, who have selected these papers based on regional competitions.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest in urban and regional planning will find this collection valuable in opening new avenues for research and debate.

Set in context by the editors’ introductory chapter, these essays draw on local concerns but also reflect three international issues: The first, the relationship between planning and economy, is raised in situations ranging from mixed urban land-use in Canada via Olympic stadiums in Sydney to the effect of market forces on urban space in Buenos Aires. Concerns over the environment and conservation, the second issue, are raised in papers on biodiversity in Britain; the difficulties of balancing conservation and regeneration in Shanghai; and the effects of ecological–economic zoning in the Brazilian Amazon. The third issue: the nature of the planning process and decision-making, is raised through participation and communication in Belfast, Jerusalem, Johannesburg and Canada; the application of normative planning theory to Africa; and in the use of storytelling as a way of gaining mutual understanding. The final chapter questions the ability of Critical Planning Theory to acknowledge the presence of power in the planning process.

This book is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN), and the nine planning school associations it represents, who have selected these papers based on regional competitions.

Editors: Bruce Stiftel is professor of urban and regional planning at Florida State University, USA. Vanessa Watson is professor in the City and Regional Planning programme and deputy director of the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Contributors: Henri Acselrad, Scott A. Bollens, Dick Cobb, Paul M. Dolman, Leonardo Fernández, Jill Grant, Thomas L. Harper, Tazim B. Jamal, Juan D. Lombardo, Andrew Lovett, Raine Mäntysalo, Tim O'Riordan, Leonie Sandercock, Glen Searle, Stanley M. Stein, Bruce Stiftel, Karen Umemoto, Mercedes DiVirgilio, Vanessa Watson and Jiantao Zhang.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

Prize winning papers from the World's Planning School Associations

This biennial series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN). The nine members of the GPEAN are:

the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS)

the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) in the USA

the Association of Canadian University Planning Programs (ACUPP)

the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)

the Association of Latin American Schools of Urbananism and Planning (ALEUP)

the National Association of Urban and Regional Postgraduate and Research

Programmes (ANPUR) in Brazil

the Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS)

the Association for the Development of Planning Education and Research (APERAU)

the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA)

International editorial board

Sigmund Asmervik
Professor of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultural University of Norway,
Europe [AESOP]

Marco A. A. de Filgueiras Gomes
Professor of Architecture, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil [ANPUR]

Thomas Harper
Professor of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada [ACUPP]

Alain Motte
Universities Professor, University of Aix-Marseille III, France [APERAU]

Roberto Rodriguez
Professor of Urbanism, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela [ALEUP]

Bruce Stiftel
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, USA [ACSP]

Vanessa Watson
Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town, South Africa
[AAPS]

Angus Witherby
Director of the Centre for Local Governement, University of New England,
Australia [ANZAPS]

Anthony Yeh
Professor of Urban Planning, University of Hong Kong [APSA]

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1

Edited by
Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson

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Contributors

Henri Acselrad is professor in the Institute for Urban and Regional Research at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and researcher at the Brazilian National Council for Scientific Development. He writes on environmental conflicts and planning. Editor of Revista Brasileira de Estudos Urbanos e Regionais, and former editor of Cadernos, his PhD was earned in economics at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)(France).

Scott A. Bollens is professor of urban and regional planning in the Department of Planning, Policy and Design at the University of California, Irvine (USA). A PhD graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), his research concerns ethnicity and public policy, regionalism and intergovernmental planning.

Dick Cobb is lecturer in environmental sciences and researcher in the Centre for Environmental Risk at University of East Anglia (UK). His research concerns agricultural and rural policy, and environmental legislation and accountability.

Mercedes DiVirgilio is a member of the faculty of the Institute of Urban Areas at General Sarmiento National University (Argentina). She holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and a master's degree in research in social sciences, both from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin (USA).

Paul M. Dolman is lecturer in ecology at the University of East Anglia (UK). His primary interest has always been in biodiversity conservation and predicting the consequences of environmental and land-use change. Specialising in population analysis, spatial and landscape ecology he also works in interdisciplinary programmes such as the work presented in this volume

Leonardo Fernández is research assistant at the Urban Institute of the General Sarmiento National University (Argentina).

Jill Grant is professor and director of the School of Planning at Dalhousie University (Canada). Her research focuses on residential environments and the cultural context of community planning. She is editor of Plan Canada, the professional journal of the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP), and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and Landscape and Urban Planning journal. Her article on mixed use won a CIP Award for Impact on the Profession.

Thomas L. Harper is professor and director of the Planning Programme, Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary (Canada). His interdisciplinary research, done collaboratively with Stanley Stein, focuses on normative planning theory. Professor Harper is past president of the Association of Canadian University Planning Programs, and is currently that association's representative to the Global Planning Education Association Network. He holds the professional designation ‘Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners’, and has worked with a variety of clients, community, educational and religious organizations.

Tazim B. Jamal is assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences, at Texas A&M University (USA). A PhD graduate of the University of Calgary (Canada), her primary research areas are on community-based planning for sustainable tourism and heritage tourism development. Related to the planning process, she also conducts participatory research in projects involving multi-stakeholder processes for addressing tourism-related conflict and natural resource sustainability.

Juan D. Lombardo is associate professor and head of the research division the Department of Urbanism at General Sarmiento National University (Argentina), and Vice-President of the Association of Latin American Schools of Urbanism and Planning. Holder of a doctorate in urbanism from the University of Aachen (Germany), he has served on the faculties of the University of Aachen and the University of Rosario (Argentina), as well as consultant to UNESCO. His publications have appeared in Argentina and abroad.

Andrew Lovett is senior lecturer in environmental sciences at University of East Anglia (UK). A PhD graduate of University College Wales, Aberystwyth (UK), his research concerns geographic information systems, environmental epidemiology and hazardous waste disposal.

Raine Mäntysalo teaches strategic and participatory urban planning in the Department of Architecture, University of Oulu (Finland). Currently he manages multi-disciplinary research projects concerned with sustainability of growing and declining urban areas and participatory rural planning. His doctoral thesis ‘Land-use Planning as Inter-organizational Learning’ was completed in 2000 at the University of Oulu.

Tim O'Riordan is professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia (UK). He has completed extensive research on landscapes and is currently working on governance for sustainable development. He is a member of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk, and a fellow of the British Academy, a society for advancement of the humanities and the social sciences.

Leonie Sandercock is professor in urban planning and social policy in the School of Community and Regional Planning at University of British Columbia (Canada), where she chairs the PhD programme. She writes on planning theory and history, multicultural planning, participatory planning, and the importance of stories and storytelling in planners’ work. She is an editor of Planning Theory & Practice.

Glen Searle is senior lecturer in urban planning at the University of Technology, Sydne...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1
• Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Building global integration in planning scholarship
• Chapter 2: Mixed use in theory and practice: Canadian experience with implementing a planning principle
• Chapter 3: Uncertain legacy: Sydney's Olympic stadiums
• Chapter 4: Land markets, social reproduction and configuration of urban space: A case study of five municipalities in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
• Chapter 5: Designing whole landscapes
• Chapter 6: Management of urban regeneration and conservation in China: A case of Shanghai
• Chapter 7: Ecological-economic zoning in the Brazilian Amazon region: The imperfect panoptism
• Chapter 8: Walking in another's shoes: Epistemological challenges in participatory planning
• Chapter 9: Urban planning and intergroup conflict: Confronting a fractured public interest
• Chapter 10: Beyond labels: Pragmatic planning in multistakeholder tourism–environmental conflicts
• Chapter 11: The usefulness of normative planning theories in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa
• Chapter 12: Out of the closet: The importance of stories and storytelling in planning practice
• Chapter 13: Dilemmas in critical planning theory