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Title The Routledge handbook of Australian urban and regional planning / edited by Neil Sipe and Karen Vella
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge handbooks
Routledge handbooks.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; 1 Australian Urban and Regional Planning in the Twenty-First Century; Part I The Context of Urban and Regional Planning; 2 The Changing Population Geography of Australia: Implications for Planning and Policy; 3 Employment, Income and (in)Equality: Planning Issues Hidden in Plain Sight; Part II Critical Debates in Australian Planning; 4 Planning and the Nirvana of Economic Development
5 Urban Design for a Sustainable Future: Heading in the Right Direction?6 Regionalization and Regionalism: Persistent Challenges and New Frontiers; 7 The Evolution of Australian Urban and Regional Planning: A Textual Analysis; 8 Northern Australia: A Contested Landscape; 9 Australian Planning System Reform: Tinkering at the Edges or Instrumental Change?; 10 Physical Determinism and Australian Cities; 11 Getting Dense: Why Has Urban Consolidation Been So Difficult?; Part III Topics in Planning Policy; 12 Neoliberalism and the Housing Affordability Crisis
13 Gerotopia: The Good Life for Life Hereafter14 How Did We Get Here? Plotting the Route to Balanced Mobility and Transport Planning; 15 Ports as Critical Infrastructure: Keeping Connected Requires a Long-Term View; 16 Planning for Food Justice within Urban Australia; Part IV Climate Change, Disaster Risk and Environmental Management; 17 How Planning Can Address the Challenge of Transitioning to Low-Carbon Urban Economies; 18 Climate Change: Local Governments Adapting to the Wicked Problem of Sea-Level Rise
19 Mainstreaming Urban Planning for Disaster Risk Reduction: Five Capabilities for Australian Urban Planning20 The Quality of Australian Regional NRM Plans; 21 In Pursuit of Effective Nature Conservation Planning and Delivery; Part V Engaging and Taking Planning Action; 22 Urban Planning and Indigenous Peoples, Australia; 23 The Right to Contribute: The Dynamics and Dilemmas of Community Engagement in the Australian Context; 24 Creating Spaces for Action: Lessons from Frontline Planners in the Great Barrier Reef; Part VI Planning Education and Research
25 Doing Planning and Being a Planner: Employment and Education Challenges for the Australian Planning Profession26 Tracing the History of Australian Planning Research and Its Influence on Practice; 27 The Future of Australian Urban and Regional Planning; Index
Summary "Where is planning in twenty-first-century Australia? What are the key challenges that confront planning? What does planning scholarship reveal about the state of planning practice in meeting the needs of urban and regional Australians? The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning includes 27 chapters that answer these and many other questions that confront planners working in urban and regional areas in twenty-first-century Australia. It provides a single source for cutting edge thinking and research across a broad range of the most important topics in urban and regional planning. Divided into six parts, this handbook explores: contexts of urban and regional planning in Australiacritical debates in Australian Planningplanning policyclimate change, disaster risk and environmental managementengaging and taking planning actionplanning education and research This handbook is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in urban planning, built environment, urban studies and public policy as well as academics and practitioners across Australia and internationally."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject City planning -- Australia
Regional planning -- Australia
City planning.
Regional planning.
Australia.
Form Electronic book
Author Sipe, Neil G., editor
Vella, Karen, editor
ISBN 9781315748054
1315748053