The urban connection
Subtitle: an actor-relational approach to urban planning
By: Luuk Boelens
Publisher: 010 Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rotterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9789064507069
Subjects: Urbanization; City planning; Citizen participation; Regional planning
Description: "The urban connection" develops a promising actor-relational approach to urban planning. With respect to the usual governmental planning, it is focused outside in, instead of inside out. It derives its leitmotif from the actual debate about state controlled versus neo-liberal planning and reflects on innovative post structuralist scholars in the field of planning, economics, social geography and governance. It then takes its own position in that debate, reflecting on actor-oriented experiments in planning practices. These experiments deal with the daily planning practice with a pro-active and operational attitude, contrary to the usual retrospective case studies. Therefore it results in concrete suggestions on how to develop a more robust planning-approach in an ongoing globalising and fragmenting world.
Notes: "It reports on a five-year study that has been conducted within the faculty of Geosciences at the University of Utrecht, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, in co-operation with the Dutch Ministry of VROM"--P. 9.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-307) and indexes.