South Korea's Saemaul (New Village) movement

04 April 2013

Jung Won Sonn & Dong-Wan Gimm (2013): South Korea's Saemaul (New Village) movement: an organisational technology for the production of developmentalist subjects, Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 34:1

Design Coding, Diffusion of Practice in England

30 January 2013

Design Coding, Diffusion of Practice in England is a new report published by the Urban Design Group  that revisits the use of design codes in England six years after the completion of a national design coding pilot programme which explored their use.  Researched and written by Prof Matthew Carmona and ...

Fiscal arrangements and planning decisions in Italy, the UK and the Netherlands

Several European countries are implementing fiscal and welfare reforms in the form of increased devolution of taxing and spending powers and responsibilities to sub-national government. In the last three years these trends have ...

Urban energy initiatives: the implications of new urban energy pathways for the UK

This article arises out of the CLUES research project which aimed to have an impact beyond the academic sphere into the worlds of stakeholders and decision-makers that are developing urban energy initiatives through ...

Planning for Change in Urban Energy Systems

This article arises out of the CLUES research project which aimed to have an impact beyond the academic sphere into the worlds of stakeholders and decision-makers that are developing urban energy initiatives through ...

Local Experiences of urban sustainability: Researching Housing Market Renewal interventions in three English neighbourhoods

Ideas and thinking about sustainability and sustainable development have permeated over the last decades into most disciplines and sectors. The area of urban studies is no exception and has generated an impressive body ...

Business Improvement Districts and the recession: Implications for public realm governance and management in England

BIDs were introduced in the UK in 2003/2004 and their widespread adoption is linked to their ability to raise funds to invest in the locality, through a mandatory supplementary levy on business ...

Transport Futures: Thinking the Unthinkable

It is becoming increasingly important to think about longer term possibilities and directions that are trend breaking and can help anticipate the unexpected. The future is perhaps becoming less certain, or at least ...

Thinking Strategically: Pathways Towards Low Carbon Transport

This chapter examines the CO2 baseline within Oxfordshire and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, assessing the high and low emitters in terms of relative transport CO2 emissions. A target for the county is ...

Planning in an Age of Consumers: British local authority practitioners, identity and reactions to public sector reform

The rise of the ‘customer’ concept within public services has been a hallmark of ‘New Public Management’ style reforms seen widely since the 1990s.  As local authority employees, planners in Great Britain have ...

The Growth Machine Stops? Urban Politics and the Making and Re-making of an Edge City

Critical reflections on growth machine and urban regime theory have pointed to the value of integrating these theories of urban politics with the likes of regulation theory. This article attempts such a synthesis ...

Planning for Growth? The Implications of Localism for 'Science Vale' Oxfordshire

This article provides a preliminary examination of the emerging implications of UK Coalition Government planning policy as a key part of its growth agenda. Attention is directed in particular to the adoption of ...

Capital Spaces: The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City

In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the ...

Social Inequality and Urban Regeneration in Barcelona City Centre: reconsidering success

Across some Southern European cities, urban renewal programmes are seen as the primary means of alleviating concentrations of poverty and social inequality by improving local living conditions. Over the long-term delivery phase, such ...

Struggling for the Right to the (Creative) City in Berlin and Hamburg

In cities across the globe there is mounting evidence of growing mobilization by members of the so-called 'creative class' in urban social movements, defending particular urban spaces and influencing urban development. This essay ...

Neighbourhood Planning: communities, networks and governance

Neighbourhood planning offers a critical analysis of community-based planning activity in England, framed within a broader view of collaborative rationality and its limits. From the recent experience of drawing up parish plans, and ...

Zero Carbon Homes

Joanna Williams explores the diverse approaches that are being adopted around the world to delivering zero carbon homes and the different societal systems and geographic circumstances in which they have developed.  It postulates ...

Megaprojects: The Bigger Picture

Ten Years with the Future Urban Transport Programme is an edited volume published by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundation (VREF). The VREF is focusing on one coherent programme: Future Urban Transport - How ...

Planning, Markets and Rural Housing

This book by Nick Gallent analyses the key forces affecting the affordability of rural homes in Britain and the changing shape of housing markets. It takes as its starting point, demographic trends impacting ...

The Future of Sustainable Cities: Critical Reflections

This book edited by Mike Raco of the Bartlett School of Planning and John Flint of the University of Sheffield investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought ...

Urban Transport in the Developing World

The twenty thematic chapters in this book, edited by Harry Dimitriou and Ralph Gakenheimer, provide a broad set of perspectives on the plight, possibilities and opportunities of urban transport in the developing world ...

Urban Transport Planning: A Developmental Approach

Originally published in 1992, this book by Harry Dimitriou discusses a contemporary growth in environmental awareness, reflected in an increasing concern about the pollution caused by motor cars.  At the same time, congestion ...

Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post 1989

Claire Colomb explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance ...

The Purpose of Planning

This book by Yvonne Rydin is about the way that the planning system works, what it can do, what it cannot do and how it should evolve to meet the challenges of the ...

Urban Reflections: Narratives of Place, Planning and Change

Urban Reflections, by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic ...