What is Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning?

DURP is a book series published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis of London in conjunction with the Global Planning Education Association Network.(GPEAN)  This series hopes to improve entre to 'foreign' schoarship for urban planners working in each of the world's nations and languages and, as a result, to promote better integration, cross-fertilization and criticism.  Papers are nominated by each of the nine GPEAN member associations (shown below) and then chosen by an international editorial board (also shown below).  The inaugural English-language volume was released in print and electronic editions in 2004.  A Portuguese translation is about to be published by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; a Spanish translation is in preparation by Equinoccio Editorial (Venezuela).  Volume 2, featuring twelve papers, originating in four languages from ten countries, was published in November 2004 in the UK, and will be available January 2007 from the US.  

In the past, urban planning scholarship has been constrained by limited communication across national and language boundaries.  Legal, institutional and cultural considerations have often been assumed as givens in planning scholarship because the degree of variation among them may be quite limited within individual nations. An analysis in the Introduction to Volume 2 of Dialogues suggests that planning scholars in developed regions draw most heavily from sources in their own regions, and planning scholars in developing countries draw significantly from developed regions, while few cross-regional use is made of scholarship originating in developing countries.  Efforts to promote international exchange in planning scholarship, accelerated in the past decade, and highlighted by the first World Planning Schools Congress held in Shanghai in 2001, suggest that the potential value of comparative work is quite high.  At the same time, language and library budgets limit access to planning scholarship worldwide.  The DURP book series seeks to offer a sampling of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning scholarship communities to scholars in the other communities.  While a small sample of papers can only do so much, we believe the current level of access is such that a book series featuring some of the best scholarship from each community will be powerful in suggesting models and in leading scholars to new resources.

Nominations are chosen by each planning school association through nominating committees.  Specific methods of choice vary by association, with some selecting the best papers in certain journals, and others reviewing open suggestions from their member faculty.  The International Editorial Board then reviews all nominated papers and selects those which will be published in each bi-annual book.  The objective is to select examples of the best urban and regional planning scholarship including work from each of the world's regions.  Works previously published, of course, are only re-published with the permission of the copyright holder.  

What associations cooperate in GPEAN?

Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS)
         A network of 14 planning schools in 7 countries.
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)
         A membership organization in the USA with 120 member schools.
Association of Canadian University Planning Programs (ACUPP)
          A membership organization with 17 members.
Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
          A membership organization with 140 member schools in 20 countries.
Association of Latin-american Schools of Urban Planning (ALEUP)
           A membership organization with 10 member schools in Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela.
National Association of Urban and Regional Post-garduate and Research Programs (ANPUR)
           A membership organization in Brazil with 32 member programs..
Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS)
           A network of  14 planning schools in Australia and New Zealand.
Association for the Development of Planning Education and Research (APERAU)
           A membership organization of 28 schools offering instruction using French language in Algeria, Canada, France and Tunisia.
Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA)
           A membership organization of 19 member schools in 13 countries.

Who were the members of the Internaitonal Editorial Board for volume 2?

Henri ACSELRAD, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (ANPUR)
Michael GUNDER, Senior Lecturer in Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand (ANZAPS)
Tom HARPER, Professor of Urban Planning, University of Calgary, Canada (ACUPP).
Alain MOTTE, Universities Professor of Regional Management, University of Aix-Marseille, France (APERAU).
Roberto RODRIGUEZ, Professor of Urban Planning, Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela (ALEUP).
Willem SALAT, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands (AESOP)
Bruce STIFTEL, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University, USA (ACSP), co-Chair.
Vanessa WATSON, Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Cape Town, South Africa (AAPS), co-Chair.
Anthony G.O. YEH, Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong (APSA).

page proofs of Dialogues 2 may be viewed at the following links:

Contents
Contributors
Preface
Introduction

Contents of Dialogues volume 2:

1.    Introduction: global commonality and regional specificity.
        Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson and Henri Acselrad

2.   Post-industrialization, post-modernism, and the reproduction of Vancouver's central area: re-theorizing the 21st century
       Thomas A. Hutton

3.   'Glocalising' urban landscapes: Athens and the 2004 Olympics.
       Elias Beriatos and Aspa Godpodini

4.   The three-speed city: relagation, periurbanisation, gentirfication.
       Jaques Donzelot

5.   The future of rurality under globalization.
       José Eli da Veiga

6.   Reinforcing identity: urban design concepts for achieving Balinese cities with cultural identity.
       T. Nirarta Samadhi

7.   Knowing and steering: mediatization, planning and democracy in Victoria, Australia.
       Alan March and Nicholas Low

8.   The instruments for urban reform and the ideal of citizenship: the current contradictions
       Lucianna Corrêa do Lago

9.   Regional planning and sustainability: limits and potentials of South Africa's integrated development plans. 
       Alison Todes

10.  The Americanization of Australian planning
       Robert Freestone

11.  City Planning in the history of the city.
       Alicia Novick

12.  Road expansion, urban growth and induced travel: a path analysis.
       Robert Cervero

13.  Changing gender contract in self-help housing construction in Botswana: the case of Lobatse.
       Faustin Kalabamu 

US Library of Congress Classification:  HT165.5 .D5 2006
Dewey Classification: 307.1/216 22

The book is available in cloth binding and electonic edition, as follows:

             ___ Hardback: ISBN 0-415-40285-9:       GB£        80.00
                                                                         US$      150.00

             ___ eBook: ISBN 0-203-96750-X:            GB£        80.00
                                                                         US$      150.00

LINKS TO PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF DIALOGUES 2:

by Wendy Steele in Australian Planner, 2007:
"Geographically, contextually and theoretically, the book attempts to stretch our planning imagination -  the insights of which may ultimately translate into shifts in contemporary planning practice within the Australian context and beyond."

by Lucio Giecillo in Planum:European Journal of Planning Online. 2007. [in Italiano]
"This book represents a step in the direction of a global confrontation among planning schools across the world, not just in the sense of cultural exchange but also in terms of a deeper understanding of the methodological differences existing in each approach. The aim is hard but the outcome deserves attention...."

by Greg M. Lloyd in Housing Studies 23(2, 2008):374-5.
"There is a freshness here in exploring the complex congnitive and behaviourial relations in land-use planning and spatial planning arenas of engagement in what are very difficult times."

by Richard Larkin in Journal of the American Planning Assocation. 74(1, 2008):149.
"This  is an important book and will be a valuable addition to the collections of academic planning libraries and a useful research and teaching tool for planning school faculty members."

by Gistav Visser in Urban Forum 19(2008):103-4.
"This volume is essential reading for any urban and regional planner--practitioner or academic..."

by John McCarthy in Urban Research and Practice 1(1,2008):104-9.
"...the book is to be commended as a means of emphasising and demonstrating the value of consideration of research and practice in other global contexts, and also in taking and uncompromising approach to addressing the insular nature of much research."

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