Spatial Planning and Urban Development: Critical Perspectives
Urban Development and Planning: Issues and Dilemmas. The Topic of Study. The Many Faces of Planning. A Crossroads with Many Dimensions. Emerging Questions. The Course of Our Discussion. Unfinished Projects for Disciplinary Foundation. The Rise and Crisis of Planning Theory. Urban Design: The Lost Object. Decision Centred Views. The Social Rootedness of Urban Planning. The Interactive Turn. The Collaborative Shift. Escaping into Irrationality. Designing the Possible. Mediterranean Planning Cultures: Italy. Characteristics of the Italian Model. Towards a Planning Science? City Design. Reformist Mainstream. The Challenges for Policy Making. Reconsidering Policy Design. Critical Issues and Perspectives. Planning, Implementation and Policy Tools. Urban Regulation: Critical Issues. Sense and Limits of Spatial Visioning. Urban Development Projects in a Strategic Framework. Rethinking Spatial Planning and Urban Development. Choosing the Paradigm. The Quality in Spatial Development.