The Routledge handbook of regional design / edited by Michael Neuman and Wil Zonneveld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neuman, Michael, 1955- editor.

Zonneveld, Wil, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Regional planning.

Sustainable urban development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx. 464 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

Biography/History:

Michael Neuman is Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Westminster and Principal of the Michael Neuman Consultancy. He is the multi-award-winning author of numerous books, articles, chapters, reports, and plans that have been translated into ten languages. His research and practice span urbanism, planning, design, engineering, sustainability, infrastructure, and governance. He has advised mayors in Europe, the United States, and Australia, the Regional Plan Association of New York, the Barcelona Metropolitan Plan, and other governments and private clients around the world. Wil Zonneveld is Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. The subject of his 1991 PhD thesis was the conceptualization of space and territory in Dutch regional and national planning. This subject has been addressed many times since then, extending analyses to include transnational and European levels of scale, with a strong emphasis on visualization and connections with governance capacity.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, planning, and designing for contemporary regions-including city-regions, bioregions, delta regions, and their hybrids. As accelerating urbanisation and globalisation combine with other forces such as the demand for increasing returns on investment capital, migration, and innovation, they yield cities that are expanding over ever-larger territories. Moreover, these polycentric city-regions themselves are agglomerating with one another to create new territorial mega-regions. The processes that beget these novel regional forms produce numerous and significant effects, positive and negative, that call for new modes of design and management so that the urban places and the lives and well-being of their inhabitants and businesses thrive sustainably into the future. With international case studies from leading scholars and practitioners, this book is an important resource not just for students, researchers, and practitioners of urban planning, but also policy makers, developers, architects, engineers, and anyone interested in the broader issues of urbanism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Endorsement

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part I Intellectual Underpinnings and Practices

Introduction: The Resurgence of Regional Design

Why Now

History and Evolution of Regional Design

Current Concepts and Practices in Regional Design

The Design of Regional Governance

Conclusion

Outline of the Book

Notes

References

1 The Emergence of Regional Design: Recovering a Great Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Tradition

The Sources of Regional Design

Regional Design in Outline

What is a Region?

Types of Regions

A Region is a Network of Components

Metropolitan Regions

Corridor Regions

Rural Regions

Hybrid Regions

Communities of Place

The Hierarchy of Communities of Place

Cities

Regional or Corridor Centers

Towns

Villages

Hamlets

Linkages

Linkage Density and Capacity

Combining Linkages

Growth-leading Linkages

Environs

Metropolitan Environs

Corridor Environs

Rural Environs

The State of the Art

Implications of the Regional Design Imperative

Note

2 European History and Traditions: Revisiting the European Spatial Development Perspective

Introduction

EU-level Regional Design

The ESDP: No Masterplan

Territorial Cohesion: Waning Ambitions

Conclusions: A Design Cloud

3 The Ecological Underpinnings of Regional Design

Prelude: Regional Design Before Ecology

Origins: Designing with Nature

Advances: New Ecological Regionalism at the Turn of the Century

Promise and Prospect: Ecology, Regionalism, and Design in the Anthropocene

Conclusions

4 Contemporary Theory for Regional Design

Introduction.

Key Performance Parameters of Regional Design in the Realm of Spatial Planning

Facilitating Attention to Geographies in Spatial Planning

Performance of Regional Design in a Discursive Dimension of Planning Concepts

Aspects of Spatial Planning Frameworks that Influence the Performances of Regional Design

Regional Design as a Rule-Building Practice

Regional Design as a Form of Discretion

Additional Theoretical Considerations

Reflections on Research for Regional Design

Conclusion: Directions for Further Research

Part II City Region Case Studies

5 Urban Policies and Strategies for Balanced Regional Development in Korea

Urbanization and Urban Policy in Korea

Basic Directions for Balanced Regional Development and Competitive Cities

Four Key Strategies for Balanced Regional Development

New Multi-Functional Administrative City (NMAC)

Innovation City

Enterprise City

Livable City/Community Making

6 Japan's Linear Megalopolis: Shinkansen High-speed Rail as the Spine of a 60-year Mega-region Evolution

Economic Development of Japan Led by Infrastructure Planning

High-Speed Rail Development

Phase One: The Development of the Shinkansen

Phase Two: Extension to the North and South

Superconducting Maglev (SCMAGLEV)

The Role of High-Speed Trains in Post-War Japan along with the Regional Development

Future Prospects and Conclusion

7 Germany's 'European Metropolitan Regions'

Spatial Planning in Germany and the Objective of 'Equality of Living Conditions'

'National Spatial Design': The MKRO's Policy Framework for 'European Metropolitan Regions'

'Institutional Design' in the Regions

Rhine-Ruhr

Berlin-Brandenburg

References.

8 Can Megalopolis Continue to Thrive?: A Profile of the US Northeast Megaregion and its Prospects

Overview

History

Vital Statistics

Regional Design and American Megaregions

Toward a Broader Movement

High Speed Rail Is the Key to Unlocking the Northeast's Latent Economic Potential

Why Can't the Northeast Build HSR?

Creation of Amtrak

How High Speed Rail Shapes Megaregions

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back on High Speed Rail

Envisioning a New Governance System for the Northeast Megaregion

A Note About Subsidiarity

Three Scenarios for the Future of Northeastern Governance

Scenario I: Current Trends Continue

Scenario II: The Federal Government Acts

Scenario III: The States Take the Initiative

9 The Texas Urban Triangle Megaregion

Introduction and Context

Megaregion Spatial Analysis: Findings of the First Stage of the Research

Project Significance

Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for High-speed Rail in the Texas Triangle

SDSS Development Method

Strategic Drivers of the SDSS

SDSS Development Process

Identify Factors

Identify Factor Specialists

Select Factors for SDSS

Identify Data Sources

Determine Internal Classification for Each Factor

Determine Factor Weights

SDSS Methodology and Testing

Findings

Conclusions for the SDSS

Directions for the Future, Including Regional Institutions

10 Designing the New York metropolitan region

The Legacy of 9/11

Superstorm Sandy

Regional Design and the RPA Plans

The First Regional Plan (1929)

The Second Regional Plan (1968)

The Third Regional Plan (1996)

The Fourth Regional Plan (2017)

Equity

Health

Prosperity

Sustainability

Regional Design in the Fourth Plan

11 The Santiago de Chile Metropolitan System: Transformative Tensions and Contradictions Shaping Spatial Planning

The Context for Regionalization and Regional Planning

Regionalization and Decentralization

Changing Organization of Regional Government

The Development of Strategies and Plans

The Metropolitan Region of Santiago

New Centralities and the Forces That Create Them

Changing Spatial Preferences

Cultural Patterns and Prospects: Summary Discussion

12 Nairobi

Description of the Region

Context and Drivers for Design

Design

Governance

Performance

Future Prospects

13 Design and Governance for the Barcelona City Region

The Significant Phases of Contemporary Growth

1950-1975: Modern Industrialization and the Property Boom

1975-1986: End of the Dictatorship and the International Energy Crisis

1986-2008: Economic Recovery and Town Planning for Major Events

2008 Until Today: Global Financial Crisis and Slow Recovery

Metropolitan Territorial Planning-Background

Metropolitan Governance

Engines of Recent Urban Growth

Demographic Dynamics

Productive Activities and Employment

Infrastructure and Mobility

Emerging Problems and Hypotheses for Intervention

The Contents of an Urban Director Plan for the Metropolitan Area

Towards the Metropolitan Project (PDUM) for the Region of Barcelona

14 Regional Planning and Regional Design in Greater Paris

"You cannot design a region" … the Case of Greater Paris

Posture, Methodology and Sources

Structure of the Chapter

Historical Resistance to Regional Design by Paris and its Region

Paris, the City of Light Dominating its Region.

The Traditional Reluctance of Development Planning in the Paris Region to Use Designs

The Insoluble Issue of the Limits to the Greater Paris Region

The 2008 Debate on Greater Paris as a Consultation or as a Smoke Screen

The Political Context of the State Taking Control

Very Large Teams Directed by Architectural Heavyweights Long Involved in the Debate Over the Metropolitan Area

Expected Discourses Conveyed by Settled Images

The Various Functions of Regional Design

Pedagogy and Marketing of the Grand Paris Express Project

Testing and the Complementarity of Regional Planning

The Lack of a Role in Creating Institutions

15 Sydney: Evolution Towards a Tri-city Metropolitan Region and Beyond

Background

The Functional City

The Greenbelt City

The Corridor City

The Consolidated City

The Polycentric City

The Tri-city Region and Beyond

16 Who Designed the Los Angeles Region?: Nature, Profit, Policy, People

The Los Angeles Region

The Imprint of the Laws of the Indies and the Jeffersonian Grid

Infrastructure and Profits from Real Estate Development

Wasted Vision of a Regional Design

Emergence of the Tieboutian Space and Its Liabilities

From a Polycentric to a Polyglot Regionalism of Globalization

The Regional Coast: Design by Referendum

The Centers Concept Redux?

So Who Designed the Los Angeles Region?

Part III Hydraulic, Ecological, and Bioregional Design Case Studies

17 The Dutch Deltametropolis

Theoretical Framework: Discourses and Conceptual Innovation

Methodological Account

Two Planning Discourses

The Urban-Rural Spatial Policy Discourse

Emergence of an Alternative Entrepreneurial Policy Discourse

The Deltametropolis Concept.

The Origins of the Deltametropolis Conceptualization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-36654-5

0-429-29026-8

1-000-36655-3

9780429290268

OCLC:

1202729852