Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning scholarship communities. The papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship.

1. Introduction 2. Post-Industrialism, Post-Modernism, and the Reproduction of Vancouver's Central Area: Retheorising the 21st Century City 3. "Glocalising" Urban Landscapes: Athens and the 2004 Olympics 4.The Three-Speed City: Marginalization, Suburbanization, Gentrification 5. The Future of Rurality under Globalization 6. Reinforcing Identity: Urban Design Concepts for Achieving Balinese Cities with Cultural Identity 7. Knowing and Steering: Mediatization, Planning and Democracy in Victoria, Australia 8. The Instruments for Urban Reform and the Ideal of Citizenship: The Current Contradictions 9. Regional Planning and Sustainability: Limits and Potentials of South Africa's Integrated Development Plans 10. The Americanization of Australian Planning 11. City Planning in the History of the City 12. Road Expansion, Urban Growth and Induced Travel 13. Changing Gender Contracts in Self-Help Housing Construction in Botswana: The Case of Lobatse