Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies
Patsy Healy

 

Publisher: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
Publication date: 2006
Language
: English
Pages
: 240
ISBN-10: 0415380359
ISBN-13: 978-0415380355

 

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Book presentation

Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas. Well-illustrated chapters weave together conceptual development, experience and implications for future practice and address the challenge of urban and metropolitan planning and development. Useful for students, social scientists and policy makers, the book offers concepts and detailed cases of interest to those involved in policy development and management, as well as providing a foundation of ideas and experiences, an account of the place-focused practices of governance and an approach to the analysis of governance dynamics. For those in the planning field itself, this book re-interprets the role of planning frameworks in linking spatial patterns to social dynamics with twenty-first century relevance.