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Title:
Urban planning
Series:
Classics in planning series ; 9
Publication Information:
Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2008
Physical Description:
xxi, 564 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781845428648
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Summary

With the global expansion of urbanization there is a need to ensure that cities develop in a way that allows all residents to benefit from urban life. This volume contains a collection of classic and more recent papers that provide insight into the problems encountered in urbanization and the ways in which planning has evolved to meet the resultant challenges. It is broad in its coverage, and its content includes both theoretical and applied contributions as well as looking at urban planning issues in the developing as well as the developed world.


Author Notes

Edited by Tüzin Baycan, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Peter Batey, Lever Professor of Town and Regional Planning, University of Liverpool, UK, Kenneth Button, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, US and Peter Nijkamp, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Jheronimus Academy of Data Science (JADS) in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands and the Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iasi, Iasi, Romania