THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF REGIONAL DESIGN

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research policy and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making planning and designing for contemporary regions―including city regions bioregions delta regions and their hybrids.As accelerating urbanization and globalization combine with other forces such as the demand for increasing returns on investment capital migration and innovation they yield cities that are expanding over ever-larger territories. Moreover these polycentric city regions themselves are agglomerating with one another to create new territorial mega-regions. The processes that beget these novel regional forms produce numerous and significant effects positive and negative that call for new modes of design and management so that the urban places and the lives and well-being of their inhabitants and businesses thrive sustainably into the future.With international case studies from leading scholars and practitioners this book is an important resource not just for students researchers and practitioners of urban planning but also policy makers developers architects engineers and anyone interested in the broader issues of urbanism.