Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

Bruce Stiftel is professor of urban and regional planning at Florida State University, USAVanessa Watson is professor in the City and Regional Planning programme and deputy director of the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

• 1. Introduction: Building Global Integration in Planning Scholarship. Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson 2. Mixed Use in Theory and Practice: Canadian Experience with Implementing Planning Principle. Jill Grant 3. Uncertain Legacy: Sydney's Olympic Stadiums. Glen Searle 4. Land Markets, Social Reproduction and Configuration of Urban Space: A Case Study of Five Municipalities in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Juan D. Lombardo, Mercedes Di Virgilio and Leonardo Fernández et al. 5. Designing Whole Landscapes. Paul M. Dolman, Andrew Lovett, Tim O'Riordan and Dick Cobb 6. Management of Urban Regeneration and Conservation in China: A Case of Shanghai. Jiantao Zhang 7. Ecological-economic zoning in the Brazilian Amazon Region: The Imperfect Panoptism. Henri Acselrad 8. Walking in Another's Shoes: Epistemological Challenges in Participatory Planning. Karen Umemoto 9. Urban Planning and Intergroup Conflict: Confronting a Fractured Public Interest. Scott A. Bollens 10. Pragmatic Planning in Multi-stakeholder Tourism-Environment Conflicts. Tazim B. Jamal, Stanley M. Stein and Thomas L. Harper 11. The Usefulness of Normative Planning Theories in the Context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Vanessa Watson 12. Out of the Closet: The Importance of Stories and Storytelling in Planning Practice. Leonie Sandercock 13. Dilemmas in Critical Planning Theory. Raine Mäntysalo Index

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