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- Written by leading experts on urban and regional planning and development from around the globe
- Offers one of the most innovative collections of papers addressing transformations in urban and regional planning and practice
- Examines topics related to urban governance and politics, national and local responses to urban economic change, and sustainable development
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Planning Perspective
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Planning Challenges
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About this book
This book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed. It addresses questions such as: What are the factors affecting planning dynamics at local, regional, national and global scales?
With the push to adopt a market paradigm in land development and infrastructure, the relationship between resource management, sustainable development and the role of governance has been transformed. Centralized planning is giving way to privatization, not only in the traditional regions but also in newly emerging regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Further, attempts are being made to bring planning related decision-making closer to the people who are most affected by it.
Presenting a collection of studies from scholars around the world and highlighting recent advances in the field, the book is a valuable reference guide for those engaged in urban transformations, whether as graduate students, researchers, practitioners or policymakers.
Reviews
“The book will certainly be of great value to students, researchers, and policymakers, as claimed by its blurb. Herein, students will get conversant with the latest in the field of urban and regional planning as impacting on development, researchers will be enthused to pursue projects on all-inclusive transformation of cities and regions, and policymakers will be sensitised to finding answers to the dilemmas over what to do or not to do.” (Gopal Krishan, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 56 (28), July, 2021)
“The editors have accomplished a great job and have done the discipline a great service by bringing together such a powerful collection of writings and by organizing them so meaningfully. The book certainly adds to the existing body of literatures in the subject of urban and regional planning and development. It will benefit students, scholars, and professionals.” (Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Transactions, Vol. 42 (2), 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geosciences, Missouri State University, West Plains, USA
Rajiv R. Thakur
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Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron, Akron, USA
Ashok K. Dutt
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Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, College of Business Administration, California State University, Sacramento, USA
Sudhir K. Thakur
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Department of Geography-Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, USA
George M. Pomeroy
About the editors
Ashok K. Dutt is Professor Emeritus of Geography, Planning and Urban Studies at University of Akron where he was a founding member of the Asian Urban Research Association (along with Allen G. Noble, Frank J. Costa and Lawrence J.C. Ma). Dr. Dutt has established his international credentials working on urban and regional planning issues in Asia, Europe and North America and has enriched both its theory and practice through his insights. Dr. Dutt’s research interest include urban, social, cultural, medical, population, economic, and development geography. He is the author of numerous articles, book reviews, and books including Urbanization and Planning in India: Vehicles of Modernization (1978), Public Planning in the Netherlands (1985 coedited with Costa), Urbanization in Asia (1989 coedited with Costa, Ma and Noble), Challenges to Asian Urbanization in the 21st Century (coedited with Noble, G. Venugopal, and S. Subbiah). He is currently working on an edited book, Environment, Development and Culture in South and East Asia: Local, Regional and International Perspectives (with Rajiv Thakur, Stanley Brunn, Baleshwar Thakur and Ramesh Dhussa).
Sudhir Thakur isProfessor in the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) department at the College of Business Administration, California State University (CSU), Sacramento. His previous teaching experience includes Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, CSU, Fullerton, University of North Dakota, Kent State University and The Ohio State University. He received his academic qualifications: MA (Economics, Panjab University), MA (Urban Planning, University of Akron), and PhD (Geography, The Ohio State University). His research interests are broadly in the areas of Economic Geography, Regional Science and Quantitative Methods. He has published 23 research papers and book chapters and co-edited six books. More recently, he has been Program Scholar at the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in quantitative methods at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2017 and 2019).
George Pomeroy, PhD, is Professor of Geography at Shippensburg University ofPennsylvania. His research focuses on environmental land use planning, urban and regional planning, and Asian urbanization. Formerly the Director of the Center for Land Use and Sustainability at Shippensburg University, he has worked extensively with local planning initiatives and stakeholder groups, including service on local planning commissions, a regional landscape planning initiative, and a local community health foundation. Since 2007, he has also served as Executive Secretary of the Asian Urban Research Association, which has organized the biennial Asian Urbanization conference series at various university across East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban and Regional Planning and Development
Book Subtitle: 20th Century Forms and 21st Century Transformations
Editors: Rajiv R. Thakur, Ashok K. Dutt, Sudhir K. Thakur, George M. Pomeroy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31776-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31775-1Published: 11 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31778-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31776-8Published: 10 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 546
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urban Studies/Sociology, Sustainable Development, Urban Economics