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 Fall 2004.  Translations to additional languages will be made available as funding permits. 

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.  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.  

Each bi-annual volume will be published in English and marketed world wide in print and electronic editions by Routledge.  Then, with support of national and multi-lateral organizations, translations of the papers will be made available in other languages.  The expectation is for broad coverage in university libraries worldwide, purchase by individual planning scholars, as well as use as a text in doctoral coursework.  The first volume in the series features twelve papers, originally published on six continents in four languages.

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.

Sigmund ASMERVIK, Professor of Land Use and Landscape Planning, Agricultureal University of Norway (AESOP).
Marco A.A. de Filgueiras GOMES, Professor of Architecture, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (ANPUR).
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).
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.
Angus WITHERBY,  Director, Centre for Local Government, University of New England, Australia (ANZAPS).
Anthony G.O. YEH, Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong (APSA).

July 2004 page proofs of Dialogues 1 may be viewed at the following links:

Front Matter
Contributors
Preface
Introduction

The contents of  Dialogues 1 includes the following:

1.    Introduction: Building Global Integration in Planning Scholarship
        Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson

2.   Mixed Use in Theory and Practice: Canadian Experience with Implementing a Planning Principle
       Jill Grant

3.   Uncertain Legacy: Sydney's Olympic Stadiums
       Glen Searle

4.   Land Markets, Social Reproduction and the Configuration of Urban Space: A Case Study of Five Municipalities in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
       Juan D. Lombardo, Mercedes DiVirgilio and Leonard Fern¨¢ndez

5.   Designing Whole Landscapes
       Paul M. Dolman, Andrew Lovett, Tim O'Riordan and Dick Cobb

6.   Management of Urban Regeneration and Conservation in China: A Case of Shanghai
       Jiantao Zhang

7.   Ecological-economic Zoning in the Brazilian Amazon Region: The Imperfect Panoptism
       Henri Acselrad

8.   Walking in Another's Shoes: Epistemological Challenges in Participatory Planning
       Karen Umemoto

9.   Urban Planning and Intergroup Conflict: Confronting a Fractured Public Interest
       Scott A. Bollens

10.   Pragmatic Planning in Multi-stakeholder Tourism-Environmental Conflicts
       Tazim B. Jamal, Stanley M. Stein and Thomas L. Harper

11.   The Usefulness of Normative Planning Theories in the Context of Sub-Saharan Africa
       Vanessa Watson

12.   Out of the Closet: The Importance of Stories and Storytelling in Planning Practice
       Leonie Sandercock

13.   Dilemmas in Critical Planning Theory
       Raine Mäntysalo US Library of Congress Classification:  HT165.5 .D5 2004
Dewey Classification: 307.1/216 22

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

LINKS TO PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF DIALOGUES 1:
by Mark Tewdwr-Jones in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 32(2005):315-316.
"The work represents quality and one cannot find fault with the thorough editing task that has occurred on several layers to bring together so many nationalities and differing standards and approaches to writing."

by S.K. Kulshrestha in Spatio-economic Development Record, 12(3, 2005):42-43.
"This book provides literature on global spatio-economic development concerns in diverse regional settings and has a global appeal."

by Ảsdis Hlökk Theod¨®rsd¨®ttir. Journal of Nordregio. 5(2, 2005):23.
"The birth of this biennial series is a welcome addition to the international planning literature ¨C for planning students and academics as well as for planning practitioners"

by Gustav Visser in Urban Forum. 16(4,2005):369-371.
"Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, edited by Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson, is a grounbreaking contribution to planning education."

by Pnina O. Plaut.in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 49(1, 2006):164-166.
"The volume will no doubt be regarded as a ¡®must¡¯ for the shelf of every serious planning library."

by Jon Coaffee.in Planning Perspectives.  21(1,2006):104-105
"This book, and its future editions, is very clearly one aspect of a sustained attempt to build a global planning movement that can develop transnational synergy and create arenas of comparative and compatible learning."

by Paul Maginn.in Journal of Planning Literature.  20(4,2006):373-375.
"[T]he first step in a journey to develop a globalized mosaic of contemporary planning thought."

by John Browder in Journal of Planning Education and Research. 25(4,2006):438-440.
"That planning scholarship has evolved in recent decades to embrace a wide range of diverse pursuits...is vividly illustrated in this exciting collection..."

by Edward Feser in Journal of Regional Science. 46(2,2006):412-415.
"That planning scholarship has evolved in recent decades to embrace a wide range of diverse pursuits...is vividly illustrated in this exciting collection."

by Geraldo Costa.in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 30(2,2006):480-482.
"The theoretical discussions that explicitly or implicitly underpin the analysis in every chapter enable the reader to apprehend a more concrete view of the potential of planning as a means to achieve social-spatial justice."

by Christopher Cusack in Regional Studies. 40(5, 2006): 563-564.
"Dialogues in Urban & Regional Planning meets its objective in impressive fashion....The overwhelming result is a book that is international in scope and one that fills a significant void in the planning literature by providing, in a single source, scholarly work that would be otherwise unattainable on so widespread a basis."

by Rik Houthaeve in Stedebouw & Ruimtelijke Ordening [Urban & Spatial Planning]. 87(2,2006): 59-61. [in Dutch]

by Louis Albrechts in Town Planning Review forthcoming.

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