Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design (Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series)

This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community. Covering both classic and novel planning theories, this Encyclopedia adopts an evolutionary perspective, reflecting on the changing meanings of terms over time. Featuring over 140 contributions drawn from diverse fields, it highlights the cross-disciplinary nature of planning and design. Contributors give practical insight into the field, and advance scientific knowledge and public conversation on planning and design. The Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design will be an essential resource for students and scholars of planning, design, urban studies and governance. It will also be highly useful for practitioners and civil servants seeking to deepen their understanding of public works, planning and environmental policy. Key Features: * Critical perspectives on core concepts and debates * Reflection on how to avoid reproducing current power/knowledge relations * Explores connections between fields and disciplines in planning and design * Extensive cross-referencing between entries Front Matter Copyright Contents Contributors Introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design: the productive fiction of unity in diversity 1. Adaptive planning 2. Adaptive reuse 3. Advocacy planning 4. Affordable housing 5. Agonism 6. Area-based management tools 7. Art: public art and planning 8. Assemblage 9. Asset and asset-based development 10. Autopoietic social systems and planning thought 11. Big data and machine learning 12. Big Other 13. Biophilic urbanism 14. Biopolitics 15. Blueprint planning 16. Boundary organisation 17. Boundary spanning 18. Brownfield development 19. Central planning, its geographies and scales 20. Citizen science in spatial and environmental problems 21. Climate change adaptation planning and resilience 22. Colonial legacies in planning and design 23. Commons 24. Communicative planning theory and its critiques 25. Complexity and planning 26. Conflict and shock 27. Conservation subdivision design 28. Corruption 29. Creativity 30. Critical planning 31. Culture and planning culture 32. Density 33. Dependencies in planning and governance 34. Design: public–private divides in the urban realm 35. Design: tensions and ambiguities 36. Desire, drive, disavowal 37. Digitalization in planning 38. Disability and urban planning 39. Dispositif 40. Downtown development and revitalization 41. Earthly attachments in the Anthropocene 42. Ecosystems-based governance 43. Ecosystems services 44. Energy and strategic energy planning 45. Environmental justice 46. European spatial planning 47. Experiment 48. Expertise and local knowledge 49. Foresight and visioning 50. Fragility, resilience and design 51. Garden city and Garden City ideas 52. Genius loci and design 53. Green activism 54. Heritage planning 55. History: learning from urban and environmental history 56. Homelessness policy and planning 57. Identity 58. Ideology 59. Inclusion/exclusion 60. Indigenous planning 61. Informal settlements 62. Informality 63. Infrastructure and planning 64. Innovation 65. Institutions and institutionalism 66. Insurgent planning 67. International and transnational planning 68. Lacan’s four discourses in planning 69. Lacanian approaches to planning 70. Land consolidation 71. Legibility 72. Line of flight 73. Livelihoods, planning for 74. Long-term perspectives and futures 75. Master signifiers 76. Memory, legacy, history 77. Methods 78. Milieu 79. Mixed-use 80. Modernism and planning 81. Multiplicity 82. Narrative 83. Neighbourhood design 84. Network governance 85. New public management 86. New urbanism 87. Noise and city design 88. Nomocracy 89. Object formation 90. Organization theory, lessons for the relation between planning and politics 91. Participation 92. Participatory planning and design 93. Place-based development 94. Place branding instrategic spatial planning 95. Policy integration 96. Polycentricity 97. Post-colonialism – and beyond 98. Post-disaster planning 99. Power and planning 100. Power in planning literature 101. Power/knowledge 102. Property 103. Property rights and planning 104. Public debate, discussion and dialogue 105. Public interest 106. Public–private partnerships 107. Qualitative comparative analysis in planning studies 108. Rationality and planning 109. Regional design 110. Regional planning 111. Research through design 112. Resource towns: mining and social disruption 113. Rhetoric 114. Rhythmanalysis inplanning 115. Rules 116. Self-organization 117. Shrinking cities and urban shrinkage 118. Smart cities: hype and reality 119. Smart growth 120. Social capital in governance and sustainable development 121. Social-ecological systems 122. Social innovation and planning 123. Social justice 124. Spatial planning concepts 125. Sprawl 126. Storytelling 127. Strata 128. Strategic navigation 129. Strategic spatial planning 130. Strategy 131. Systems thinking 132. Therapy, planning as 133. Think tanks 134. Transition 135. Transversality 136. Trust 137. Urban climate responsive planning and design 138. Utopia 139. Values and rational judgments: the role of ethics 140. Verticality 141. Walkability 142. Waste picking 143. Youthification 144. Zoning