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Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning
Agricultural land use is influenced not only by multiple aspects of biophysical and socio-economic processes, but also the cumulative impacts of...
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Investigating the purposefulness of development planning in Ghana through a political economy lens
Newly independent countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) adopted development planning as a means to achieving their development goals, but there are...
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Financial Planning Discrepancy in Couple Relationships: A Dyadic Response Surface Analysis
Financial planning plays a key role in sha** marital satisfaction. Using response surface analysis (RSA), which is based on polynomial regression...
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International Planning Studies An Introduction
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates...
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Regional Planning
Regional planning typically refers to various activities aimed at steering spatial development at the subnational level, for example, through...
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Building resilience to flood risks via green space planning in urban Ghana
Green spaces provide flood-regulating functions that help minimize the impact of flooding. However, in urban Africa, rapid urbanization has led to...
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Dilemma of pursuing livability in China’s urban planning: the case of Longguicheng housing estate in Guangzhou
Livability is pivotal when planning human habitations. Sustainable planning strategies have been gradually adopted to enhance the livability of built...
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Characterising Planning Systems
This chapter considers ways to characterise the different planning systems that exist internationally to regulate land use and development, protect...
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Cross-Border Planning, Transnational, and Supranational Planning Contexts
This chapter considers the various forms of transnational, cross-border, and supranational planning policies and strategies that provide a context...
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Urban planners’ perspectives of public participation in planning in Nigeria
Public/community participation is globally recognized today as an integral aspect of urban planning. This is evident in various international,...
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Planning Better Cities A Practical Guide
This textbook provides an accessible, practical guide to the strategic planning process required for the preparation of city plans from entire...
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City Planning Typologies
Chapters 6 – 11 outlines the 7-Step Strategic Planning Process in...
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Detecting Nepal’s position in the global context of language planning and policy
Worldwide language planning and policy (LPP) research has demonstrated a paradigm shift from a traditional approach to the ethnography of LPP. The...
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Unlocking the Potential of Participatory Planning: How Flexible and Adaptive Governance Interventions Can Work in Practice
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid diffusion of participatory planning models, including Community-Driven Development and Participatory...
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Housing movements and formal–informal planning practices in metropolitan Sao Paulo, Brazil
The radical planning literature suggests that formal and informal planning practices shape urban planning in global South cities. However, studies...
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A Strategic Planning Process
The first part of this chapter outlines the rationale for the 7-Step Strategic Planning Process. It brings together the findings of Chapter 3, which...
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Planning for Country
What we understand as ‘Western ‘planning’, “an imperial scholarly discipline and colonial practice”, is a different theoretical and applied construct...
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The Exclusion of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Planning Open Spaces in Namibia: The Case of Havana, Windhoek
The lack of accessible and valuable public open spaces for socio-cultural activities is a concern in low-income urban areas. Through an indigenous...
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Fertility Has Been Framed: Why Family Planning Is Not a Silver Bullet for Sustainable Development
High fertility and population growth have been framed as villains in global health and development. Inspired by neo-Malthusian concerns around...
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What is Planning About?
Planning cities, as we understand it today, emerged in the early 1880s. Its evolution since then reflects changing social, economic, and...