Shifting Sense: Looking Back to the Future in Spatial Planning (Design/science/planning S.) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9085940044 ISBN 13: 9789085940043

Publisher: Techne Press, 2008

Synopsis

Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning provides a clear and integrated view of possible regional and urban futures set within the contesting contexts of globalization and an ever more intense search for local identity. Although the inherent contradiction of greater localism in a globalizing world may, at a superficial glance, appear to be symptomatic of a confused analysis, the reality is that place and places are constant elements that provide social cohesion and offer a basis for planned transition. In emphasising the importance of the spatial, and by setting this assessment within specific socio-economic contexts, the various chapters of Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning offer valuable insights into the challenges facing both academics and society as a whole.

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"Shifting Sense offers much more than a standard collection of essays: it provides a clear and integrated view of possible regional and urban futures set within the contesting contexts of globalisation and an ever more intense search for local identity." AND "Making sense of what has taken place, and why, is a fundamental pre-requisite for making informed choices about the future; this book provides such a capability and illustrates the analysis through cases of both failure and success. But more than this, Shifting Sense also provides a rationale for innovation in policy and practice, and by doing this it allows the reader to comprehend both the scale of the challenge which confronts us and the great opportunities which exist." Peter Roberts, University of Liverpool, October 2005"

Edition details

• Publisher: Techne Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9085940044
• ISBN 13: 9789085940043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Hulsbergen E., Klaasen I., Kriens I.