"This book offers an essential introduction to global practice that makes it possible to orient all of our students to the world-wide sources of planning ideas, the variety of contexts in which planners work, and the best responses to rapid urbanization, climate change, growing inequality, and natural resource depletion. This book will motivate students to devote their careers to solving our most vexing global challenges and will point them in valuable directions for doing so". - Bruce Stiftel, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates planning as an international discipline and practice with an important role to play in delivering sustainable development across different scales in diverse global contexts. A series of chapters covers past episodes of international influence and exchange in planning, key concepts, research strategies, methods in contemporary international planning studies, as well as ways of characterising and comparing planning systems
The authors explore the emergence of a global agenda for planning, through the activities and goal setting of international organisations, and professional and civil society networks. Transnational and cross-border contexts and initiatives in different global regions, and their relevance to planning, are investigated. An invaluable resource for students and researchers in planning studies, this book offers an important reflection on the internationalisation of planning practice, education, and scholarship, and the future prospects for planning and planning studies from an international perspective.
Dr. Olivier Sykes is Senior Lecturer in European Spatial Planning at the University of Liverpool and Editor in Chief of Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). At Liverpool, he leads the module International Planning Studies which received the 2014 AESOP Excellence in Teaching Award.
Professor David Shaw is Professor of Planning at the University of Liverpool. He has considerable experience of international planning practice having previously worked in Africa, extensively on European spatial planning, and in Asia.
Dr. Brian Webb is Senior Lecturer in Spatial Planning at Prifysgol Caerdydd/Cardiff University. He has worked in the field of planning in three countries and engaged in comparative urban and regional planning research across Europe, North America, Japan, and South Korea.
