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Design, Planning, and Problem Solving
Both football and war require prudent and detailed planning to attain success. Distinct from the rigid step-by-step approach of the joint planning...
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Integration of LCZ to Planning Strategies
Facing ongoing urbanization and climate change, urban dwellers are expected to suffer from an increasing number of extreme weather events with...
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Spatial Justice and Planning Resha** Social Housing Communities in a Changing Society
Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains...
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The Politics of Planning in Delivering Sustainable Visions of Development
Planning policy sets the tone for development and the wider social and institutional networks that influence how we shape places, known as...
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Planning Cultures
This chapter presents a discussion of planning cultures in African contexts. Using a planning culture framework, the chapter presents evidence on the...
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Application of LCZ to Wind Environment Studies
The rise of mega- and high-density compact cities are now irreversible trends of human urban development. While megacities and high-density urban...
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Spatial Planning for Territorial Cohesion
This chapter analyses the role and importanceTerritorial Cohesion of Spatial PlanningSpatial Planning to effectively implement Territorial Cohesion...
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An Enquiry into Planning for Justice
This chapter explores the development of research on justice and the significance of spatial justice for planning. The traditional (re)distributive,...
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Spatial Justice and Planning: Bridging the Gap
The book has addressed the epistemological and ontological value of critical spatial thinking and spatial justice, its perceived, conceived, and...
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Qualities of Urban Planning and the Conflict Between Participatory Planning and Planning Standards: Evidence from Ethiopia
The Ethiopian hybrid planning system applies both top-down and bottom-up planning approaches simultaneously. This causes vague quality measurement...
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Planning and Construction of China’s International Metropolises
In 2011, some authoritative media published a long report on the development of cities in China, in which they fiercely criticized the planning and...
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British environmental foreign policy identity post-Brexit: environment and climate policy
Since the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK) government has been keen to persuade commentators and...
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Using Planning as a Tool for Subversive Localism: Ambition Versus Rules in Localism Transition Arenas
Communities are exposed to both pressures on land and the built environment as well as opportunities to make places better. As we saw Chap. 3, the...
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National Development Planning , Implementation, and Assessment
This chapter traces UN engagement in the planning processes of the new Pacific Island nations. Each came to independence with poor infrastructure and...
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Recreation Planning and Management
This chapter presents evidence on trends and status of recreation and physical activities in African cities whose management is further analysed. A...
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Land Use Planning for Climate Change Adaptation in Secondary Cities: Insights from Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
Climate change is no longer a myth but a reality that requires urgent mitigation and adaptation strategies to curtail its devastating impacts. In...
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The International Environment
The Aceh tsunami was an important factor in Indonesia and Australia’s bilateral relations. It was not only the issue of deployment of the ADF in...
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Thriving in a Nonacademic Environment
This chapter moves on to what happens once you have a nonacademic job, with Drs. Susan Navarro Smelcer and Meredith Whiteman Ross writing about how...
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Theorizing Public Participation in Urban Governance. Toward a New Normal Planning
During the last decade, much planning and urban governance research have investigated extensive- and small-scale experiments to design and establish...
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New green revolution in Ghana: perceived benefits, challenges, and implications for the environment
This paper reflects on Africa's new green revolution (NGR) movement by drawing data from Ghana as an illustrative case to assess the benefits and...
