Gavin Parker is Professor in Planning at the University of Reading.  Joe Doak is Professor of Urban Planning & Development at the University of Reading.

• IntroductionPlan and PlanningSustainability and Sustainable DevelopmentNetworksSystems and ComplexityHierarchyImplementationDesignationsPublic Interest and InterestsNegotiationMobility and AccessibilityRights and Property RightsPlace and Sense of PlaceCommunityCapitalExternalities and ImpactsCompetitivenessAmenityDevelopment

If I had to point out a weakness in the book, it would be hard: perhaps the fact that many examples and concepts derive from the town and country planning system in the United Kingdom, which is one of the urban and regional systems that historically has shaped cities and regions in our world...This is a very good book, and will give guidance not only for "upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in planning" as the series editor writes on the book’s cover, but also to the planners that are doing planning and wish to remember exactly why they do planning.

Gavin Parker is Professor in Planning at the University of Reading.  Joe Doak is Professor of Urban Planning & Development at the University of Reading.

• IntroductionPlan and PlanningSustainability and Sustainable DevelopmentNetworksSystems and ComplexityHierarchyImplementationDesignationsPublic Interest and InterestsNegotiationMobility and AccessibilityRights and Property RightsPlace and Sense of PlaceCommunityCapitalExternalities and ImpactsCompetitivenessAmenityDevelopment

If I had to point out a weakness in the book, it would be hard: perhaps the fact that many examples and concepts derive from the town and country planning system in the United Kingdom, which is one of the urban and regional systems that historically has shaped cities and regions in our world...This is a very good book, and will give guidance not only for "upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in planning" as the series editor writes on the book’s cover, but also to the planners that are doing planning and wish to remember exactly why they do planning.

Gavin Parker is Professor in Planning at the University of Reading.  Joe Doak is Professor of Urban Planning & Development at the University of Reading.

• IntroductionPlan and PlanningSustainability and Sustainable DevelopmentNetworksSystems and ComplexityHierarchyImplementationDesignationsPublic Interest and InterestsNegotiationMobility and AccessibilityRights and Property RightsPlace and Sense of PlaceCommunityCapitalExternalities and ImpactsCompetitivenessAmenityDevelopment

If I had to point out a weakness in the book, it would be hard: perhaps the fact that many examples and concepts derive from the town and country planning system in the United Kingdom, which is one of the urban and regional systems that historically has shaped cities and regions in our world...This is a very good book, and will give guidance not only for "upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in planning" as the series editor writes on the book’s cover, but also to the planners that are doing planning and wish to remember exactly why they do planning.