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    The Temporalities of Urban Governance

    Time, Politics and Place critically explores time as a political and strategic resource and currency shaping urban governance, planning processes and planning system reform across the UK and Europe. Bringing together leading researchers, it demonstrates how time has been undervalued in spatial planning and advocates for greater attention to temporalities.The lens of time highlights how different ... Read more

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This textbook offers an accessible overview of a century of planning theory, bringing a critical perspective rooted in contemporary research that will appeal to lecturers and to their students. Organised thematically, with a focus on institutional and justice issues, this book offers a well-grounded alternative to existing traditional overviews of planning theories by situating planning as a ... Read more

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  • The Legal and Political Geography of Pluralism

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    Is it legitimate to prohibit political activities in a shopping centre, or the wearing of the full Islamic veil in a public space? This book addresses such questions of pluralism in a time of increasing ethnic, religious and cultural diversity in the public and private spaces of our cities.Analysing different types of regulation — property rights, municipal ordinances and urban planning — the ... Read more

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    What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems? This book answers this question by shedding new light on the topics of emergence, complexity, and self-organisation and showing their interconnectedness with other concepts, such as property and beauty, which are usually considered separately. It contributes to the discussion by interpreting and explaining the nature of ... Read more

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  • Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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  • Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment

    Edited by Claudia Basta, Stefano Moroni ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared by planning theory, architectural research, design and ethical inquiry. The contributors gathered in 2010 at the Ethics of the Built Environment seminar organized by the editors at Delft University of Technology. Both prominent and emerging scholars presented their researches in the areas of aesthetics, technological risks, ... Read more

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    Series series Urban Futures
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