Showing papers in "Progress in Planning in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the dissemination of accessibility measures through visually well-represented media can significantly enhance understanding, making a contribution towards a productive discourse on future directions for urban form and mobility.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address three main themes in the burgeoning study of global cities and regional governance in a comparative context: the importance of city regionalism in the world economy and how are they formed, what is the politics of city regionism and what political-administrative forms can it take, and are these processes the same in China and the West?

TL;DR: Shenzhen was the first among cities in China to adapt the capitalist world's urban development practices to an indigenous, centrally controlled land management system as mentioned in this paper. But Shenzhen's urban planning may best represent the role of planning in a time of economic transition, as industry moves inland away from increasingly costly coastal areas, the city is grappling with the need to restructure its economic base.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show the shift in the attitude of planners and authorities toward what they call off cultural scenes, which can lead to an urban resistance against these sanitised and homogenised cityscapes.

TL;DR: The idea of well designed urban form is translated into the idea of accessible urban form; accessibility being a somewhat easier concept to deal with, there being a well established scientific literature to draw upon in the fields of economic geography, spatial economics and spatial analysis.

TL;DR: The SIMPLAN (SIMplified PLANning) modelling suite as discussed by the authors was developed for the case study city of Ahmedabad, India (the calibration per se is not discussed) to test alternative urban planning policies (combinations for land use and transport) for the year 2021.

TL;DR: In this article, a study comparing the regulation of internal housing space in Italy and England is presented, where there are no universal rules governing internal space, and the authors explore the politics, practicalities, acceptability and impact of internal space regulation.

TL;DR: Seattle has long been considered a city in harmony with nature, a metropolis inseparable from and infused with the dramatic and picturesque Pacific Northwest landscape as discussed by the authors, and today, the city is frequentl...