Spatial Planning and Urban Development : Critical Perspectives - Palermo, Pier Carlo; Ponzini, Davide; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
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.     .
Keywords: Human geography; Regional planning; Urban planning; Culture-Study and teaching; Human Geography; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional and Cultural Studies