This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community.

Contents: Introduction to the Elgar encyclopedia in urban and regional planning and design: the productive fiction of unity in diversity 1 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 1 Adaptive planning 5 Gert de Roo 2 Adaptive reuse 8 Bie Plevoets and Francesca Lanz 3 Advocacy planning 11 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 4 Affordable housing 13 Alan Mallach 5 Agonism 16 John Erik Pløger 6 Area-based management tools 19 Froukje Maria Platjouw 7 Art: public art and planning 21 Tony Matthews 8 Assemblage 23 Gareth Abrahams 9 Asset and asset-based development 27 Ivis García 10 Autopoietic social systems and planning thought 31 Angelique Chettiparamb 11 Big data and machine learning 35 Lasse Gerrits and Sofia Pagliarin 12 Big Other 38 Elham Bahmanteymouri 13 Biophilic urbanism 40 Timothy Beatley 14 Biopolitics 44 Claudio Minca 15 Blueprint planning 47 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 16 Boundary organisation 49 Daan Boezeman 17 Boundary spanning 52 Daan Boezeman 18 Brownfield development 53 Luís Carlos Loures 19 Central planning, its geographies and scales 56 Barbara Czarniawska 20 Citizen science in spatial and environmental problems 59 Lasse Gerrits, Alexander Los and Sofia Pagliarin 21 Climate change adaptation planning and resilience 63 S. Jeff Birchall and Danielle Koleyak 22 Colonial legacies in planning and design 67 Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld and Raoul Beunen 23 Commons 69 Stefano Moroni 24 Communicative planning theory and its critiques 71 Raine Mäntysalo 25 Complexity and planning 74 Gert de Roo 26 Conflict and shock 78 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 27 Conservation subdivision design 80 Randall Arendt 28 Corruption 87 Stefano Moroni 29 Creativity 89 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 30 Critical planning 91 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 31 Culture and planning culture 92 Frank Othengrafen 32 Density 96 Jill L. Grant 33 Dependencies in planning and governance 100 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 34 Design: public–private divides in the urban realm 102 Ali Madanipour 35 Design: tensions and ambiguities 104 Ali Madanipour 36 Desire, drive, disavowal 106 Elham Bahmanteymouri 37 Digitalization in planning 111 Anna M. Hersperger, Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits 38 Disability and urban planning 115 Lisa Stafford and Matt Novacevski 39 Dispositif 118 John Erik Pløger 40 Downtown development and revitalization 122 Dagney Faulk 41 Earthly attachments in the Anthropocene 125 Edward H. Huijbens 42 Ecosystems-based governance 129 Froukje Maria Platjouw 43 Ecosystems services 132 Davide Geneletti and Chiara Cortinovis 44 Energy and strategic energy planning 134 Martijn Gerritsen 45 Environmental justice 137 Stijn Neuteleers 46 European spatial planning 142 Andreas Faludi 47 Experiment 146 Torill Nyseth 48 Expertise and local knowledge 148 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 49 Foresight and visioning 150 Timothy J. Dixon 50 Fragility, resilience and design 153 Esther Charlesworth and John Fien 51 Garden City and Garden City ideas 157 Christine Garnaut 52 Genius loci and design 160 Randall S. Lindstrom 53 Green activism 165 Michael Hardman 54 Heritage planning 167 Karim van Knippenberg 55 History: learning from urban and environmental history 169 Jill L. Grant 56 Homelessness policy and planning 175 Joshua Evans 57 Identity 179 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 58 Ideology 181 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 59 Inclusion/exclusion 183 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 60 Indigenous planning 185 Theodore Jojola 61 Informal settlements 189 Debadutta Parida 62 Informality 193 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 63 Infrastructure and planning 195 Tim Busscher and Marijn van Geet 64 Innovation 199 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 65 Institutions and institutionalism 201 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 66 Insurgent planning 203 Efadul Huq 67 International and transnational planning 205 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 68 Lacan’s four discourses in planning 207 Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 69 Lacanian approaches to planning 212 Elham Bahmanteymouri 70 Land consolidation 215 Terry van Dijk 71 Legibility 217 Derk Jan Stobbelaar 72 Line of flight 220 Gareth Abrahams 73 Livelihoods, planning for 222 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 74 Long-term perspectives and futures 224 Peter Pelzer and Wieke Pot 75 Master signifiers 228 Mohsen Mohammadzadeh 76 Memory, legacy, history 231 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 77 Methods 233 Kristof Van Assche, Martijn Duineveld and Raoul Beunen 78 Milieu 235 Jean Hillier 79 Mixed-use 239 Markus Moos and Tara Vinodrai 80 Modernism and planning 241 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 81 Multiplicity 243 Freek de Haan 82 Narrative 247 Martijn Duineveld, Kristof Van Assche and Raoul Beunen 83 Neighbourhood design 249 Ali Madanipour 84 Network governance 253 Joop Koppenjan 85 New public management 257 Kris Hartley 86 New urbanism 260 Katherine Perrott 87 Noise and city design 263 Juan Miguel Barrigón Morillas, Guillermo Rey Gozalo and David Montes González 88 Nomocracy 266 Stefano Moroni 89 Object formation 268 Henk-Jan Kooij 90 Organization theory, lessons for the relation between planning and politics 271 Barbara Czarniawska 91 Participation 274 Torill Nyseth 92 Participatory planning and design 277 Jesus J. Lara 93 Place-based development 280 Greg Halseth, Laura Ryser and Sean Markey 94 Place branding in strategic spatial planning 284 Eduardo da Silva Oliveira 95 Policy integration 288 Jeroen J.L. Candel 96 Polycentricity 290 Wil Zonneveld 97 Post-colonialism – and beyond 295 Patrick Devlieger 98 Post-disaster planning 297 Robert Coates and Jeroen Warner 99 Power and planning 301 Raphaël Fischler 100 Power in planning literature 303 Martijn Duineveld, Raoul Beunen and Kristof Van Assche 101 Power/knowledge 305 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 102 Property 307 Benjamin David Davy 103 Property rights and planning 310 Eran S. Kaplinsky 104 Public debate, discussion and dialogue 312 Noelle Aarts 105 Public interest 314 Stefano Moroni 106 Public–private partnerships 316 Stefan Verweij 107 Qualitative comparative analysis in planning studies 320 Lasse Gerrits and Sofia Pagliarin 108 Rationality and planning 324 Gert de Roo 109 Regional design 328 Terry van Dijk 110 Regional planning 330 Raoul Beunen, Martijn Duineveld and Kristof Van Assche 111 Research through design 332 Sanda Lenzholzer 112 Resource towns: mining and social disruption 334 Lochner Marais 113 Rhetoric 336 James Throgmorton 114 Rhythmanalysis in planning 338 Robin A. Chang 115 Rules 341 Stefano Moroni 116 Self-organization 343 Ward Rauws 117 Shrinking cities and urban shrinkage 347 Marjan Marjanović 118 Smart cities: hype and reality 351 Sofia Pagliarin and Lasse Gerrits 119 Smart growth 354 Katherine Perrott 120 Social capital in governance and sustainable development 357 Stefan Partelow 121 Social-ecological systems 362 Fikret Berkes 122 Social innovation and planning 365 Gert Verschraegen and Stijn Oosterlynck 123 Social justice 370 Susan S. Fainstein 124 Spatial planning concepts 373 Wil Zonneveld 125 Sprawl 375 Hans Leinfelder and Edwin Buitelaar 126 Storytelling 377 Terry van Dijk 127 Strata 378 Gareth Abrahams 128 Strategic navigation 380 Jean Hillier 129 Strategic spatial planning 383 Räine Mäntysalo 130 Strategy 387 Raoul Beunen, Kristof Van Assche and Martijn Duineveld 131 Systems thinking 389 Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Martijn Duineveld 132 Therapy, planning as 392 Lisa Schweitzer 133 Think tanks 395 Daan Boezeman 134 Transition 396 René Kemp and Patrick Huntjens 135 Transversality 399 Jean Hillier 136 Trust 402 Jasper R. de Vries 137 Urban climate responsive planning and design 404 Sanda Lenzholzer 138 Utopia 406 David Pinder 139 Values and rational judgments: the role of ethics 408 Claudia Basta 140 Verticality 412 Ana Aceska 141 Walkability 415 Katherine Perrott 142 Waste picking 418 Radhika Borde 143 Youthification 420 Markus Moos 144 Zoning 423 Raphaël Fischler