Reshaping Regional Planning:: Northern Traditions and Futures

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Uniting scholars from across the full range of social sciences, this distinctive volume provides a unique overview of northern European planning. It examines all the key issues as well as the evolution, traditions, current innovations and future developments in the field of planning.

Focusing on how planning impacts upon social issues such as employment, social exclusion and quality of life, the volume also looks at innovations in planning policy and practice, in particular the challenge of sustainability. The contributors analyze the built environment's relationship with culture and take a critical look at the creative re-thinking currently taking place in Nordic planning.

Author Biography: Brita Olerup, Senior Researcher at the Department of Industrial Economics and Management, Lars Olof Persson, Senior Researcher at the Department of Infrastructure and Planning and Folke Snickars, Professor at the Department of Infrastructure and Planning, all at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

SYNOPSIS

Both the editors and contributors of this volume of 20 essays come primarily from the Department of Infrastructure and Planning at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. They analyze issues and methods in regional planning from a Nordic perspective. Five sections examine economic, geographical, social, and environmental challenges to the current planning processes; specific planning issues of integrating infrastructure development programs with social planning; the emerging role of planners in the new context of planning at the local level; mathematical and qualitative models for forecasting and scenario building; and problems and methods of evaluation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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