Making Planning Work: A guide to approaches and skills (2006)
The Development of Planning Thought: A Critical Perspective
Regional and Local Economic Development
Place Identity, Participation and Planning
Book-Programmes! Programmes!: Football Programmes from War-Time to Lockdown
Programmes! Programmes!: Football Programmes from War-Time to Lockdown
The Habitat 3 conference in Quito this month is a critical opportunity to shape the practice of planning globally.
Ruthless developers are literally undermining a Kenyan school in an attempt to capture the rights to valuable land, alleges a priest with wide experience of the country.
Planners on an innovative post-graduate course in Zambia are being trained to understand how informal development operates and how to deliver pro-poor planning.
Today, it is the young people who most strongly uphold the ideal of Europe as a shared space, where people from different countries lie and work together. The Young Eyes project, that has involved teenagers from Poland, Latvia and Sweden and young professionals from Scotland, shows how young people can, and will, shape the future.
How might Brexit impact on the EU? Will the Netherlands be next? David Evers scratches the scabs.
In 2004, David Evers, Ed Dammers and Aldert de Vries wrote a "doomsday scenario" for a disintegrating EU in 2030. It was never published. It is now.
A Brexit-induced crash in the markets seems likely to set the framework for the work of planners in the months ahead.
Klaus Kunzmann, distinguished professor of spatial planning at the Technical University of Dortmund, give his reaction to Brexit and ponders what it means for planning and planners.
Why has Brexit happened and what happens next?
The zero draft of the New Urban Agenda, the declaration that the governments of the world will sign up to in October 2016, gives a prominent role to more proactive and inclusive urban and regional planning.
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How do you create attractive and environmentally sustainable places? A new, updated edition of a major text provides powerful lessons and evidence.
Passion for strategic spatial planning has too rarely endured, thus undermining precisely what it needs, which is a long term perspective.
Here in UK, and particularly in the North of England, museums and public galleries are being closed down as councils struggle to cope with real reductions in income forced by the UK government's austerity programme. In USA it is a different story.
In 1995 I was invited to speak to a landmark conference in South Africa for the transition of planning after apartheid. I reported on my visit in my monthly magazine column.