Planning in Cities is an innovative collection which bridges theory and practice to explore the conflicting challenges of the increasingly rapid scale and speed of city growth with providing effective urban planning policies and management strategies. Part One explores the changing paradigms of development and environmentalism and how these have impacted on the process of urbanization and the emerging debates on the sustainability of cities. These chapters review and elaborate the discourse on sustainability, setting it firmly within the context of urbanization and development. The increasing disjuncture between these concepts and the challenge this presents to the planning of cities in the developing world is highlighted. Part Two shifts from discourse to practice. Case studies drawn from different countries and different urban policy sectors investigate the design and implementation of planning policies and ways of improving urban governance to support sustainable urban growth. They assess the challenges and limitations to capacity-building in the urban sector. Lessons learned from different practical approaches are demonstrated and critiqued. Published in the Urban Management Series.

Roger Zetter Roger Zetter is Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Planning at Oxford Brookes University in the UK.|Rodney White is Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

Rodney White

Managing and interpreting uncertainty for climate change risk

White, Rodney R.

Building Research & Information, Vol. 32 (2004), Iss. 5 P.438

https://doi.org/10.1080/0961321042000221106 [Citations: 13]

Building Sustainable Urban Settlements

Back Matter - Building Sustainable Urban Settlements

Romaya, Sam

Rakodi, Carole

2002

https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780441030.018 [Citations: 0]

Green Subjection: The Politics of Neoliberal Urban Environmental Management

BRAND, PETER

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 31 (2007), Iss. 3 P.616

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2007.00748.x [Citations: 88]

Energy Security and Development

Integration of Emission Reduction and Environmental Management Goals for Sustainable Urban Development

Nallathiga, Ramakrishna

2015

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2065-7_30 [Citations: 0]

Urban economy or environmental policy? The case of Egypt

Zetter, Roger

Hassan, Al-Moataz

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, Vol. 4 (2002), Iss. 2 P.169

https://doi.org/10.1002/jepp.103 [Citations: 22]

Informal Cairo: Between Islamist Insurgency and the Neglectful State?

Dorman, W.J.

Security Dialogue, Vol. 40 (2009), Iss. 4-5 P.419

https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010609343940 [Citations: 12]