Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies

<p><em>Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies</em> develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas.</p> <p>Well-illustrated chapters weave together conceptual development experience and implications for future practice and address the challenge of urban and metropolitan planning and development.</p> <p>Useful for students social scientists and policy makers <em>Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies</em> offers concepts and detailed cases of interest to those involved in policy development and management as well as providing a foundation of ideas and experiences an account of the place-focused practices of governance and an approach to the analysis of governance dynamics. For those in the planning field itself this book re-interprets the role of planning frameworks in linking spatial patterns to social dynamics with twenty-first century relevance.</p>