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The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions-including city-regions, bioregions, delta regions, and their hybrids.
List of contents
Part I: Intellectual Underpinnings and PracticesIntroduction: The Resurgence of Regional Design
Chapter 1. The Emergence of Regional Design: Recovering a Great Landscape Architecture and Planning Tradition
Chapter 2. European History and Traditions: Revisiting the European Spatial Development Perspective
Chapter 3. The Ecological Underpinnings of Regional Design
Chapter 4. Contemporary Regional Design Theory
Part II: City Region Case StudiesChapter 5. Urban Policies and Strategies for Balanced Regional Development in Korea
Chapter 6. Japan's Linear Megalopolis: Shinkansen High-speed Rail as the Spine of a 60-year Mega-region Evolution
Chapter 7. Germany's 'European Metropolitan Regions'
Chapter 8. Can Megalopolis Continue To Thrive? A Profile of the US Northeast Megaregion and Its Prospects
Chapter 9. The Texas Urban Triangle Megaregion
Chapter 10. Designing the New York Metropolitan Region
Chapter 11. The Santiago de Chile Metropolitan System: Transformative Tensions and Contradictions Shaping Spatial Planning
Chapter 12. Nairobi
Chapter 13. Design and Governance for the Barcelona City Region
Chapter 14. Regional Planning and Regional Design in Greater Paris
Chapter 15. Sydney: Evolution Towards a Tri-city Metropolitan Region and Beyond
Chapter 16. Who Designed Los Angeles? Nature, Profit, Policy, People
Part III: Hydraulic, Ecological, and Bioregional Design Case StudiesChapter 17. The Dutch Deltametropolis
Chapter 18. The Regional Design of Green Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta
Chapter 19. Regional Design Stepping into the Sea
Chapter 20. Bioregional Design: The Design Science of the Future
Part IV: Education, Management, and GovernanceChapter 21. Interdisciplinary Pedagogies for Regional Development Challenges: The Re-coupling of Planning, Design and the Social Sciences
Chapter 22. Imagining the Region
Chapter 23. Mapping for Regions
Chapter 24. The Complex Ecology of the City-Region
Chapter 25. The Futures of Regional Design
About the author
Michael Neuman is Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Westminster and Principal of the Michael Neuman Consultancy. He is the multi-award-winning author of numerous books, articles, chapters, reports, and plans that have been translated into ten languages. His research and practice span urbanism, planning, design, engineering, sustainability, infrastructure, and governance. He has advised mayors in Europe, the United States, and Australia, the Regional Plan Association of New York, the Barcelona Metropolitan Plan, and other governments and private clients around the world.
Wil Zonneveld is Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. The subject of his 1991 PhD thesis was the conceptualization of space and territory in Dutch regional and national planning. This subject has been addressed many times since then, extending analyses to include transnational and European levels of scale, with a strong emphasis on visualization and connections with governance capacity.
Summary
The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions—including city-regions, bioregions, delta regions, and their hybrids.
