...This chapter provides an overview of the processes and recent trends of strategic planning in Europe. It re-examines strategic planning by highlighting the differences between it and traditional land-use planning. It discusses the “new” strategic spatial planning, the four-track operationalized...

...This chapter discusses strategic planning in the United States. The country's development in the new century is facing a host of challenges that require strategies for sustainable, equitable, and prosperous growth. The Regional Plan Association's America 2050 project is dedicated to responding...

...The multifarious, multi-layered urban structure of Tokyo, building on the historical and geological underpinnings of Edo, challenges western models of orderly urban planning. Rather than following a macrocosmic unified order, the Japanese capital can be seen to be a collage of micro-urban entities...

... of frugality, practicality and defiance against the hegemony of official discourses and practice of urban planning and design. Performed by ordinary citizen actors, this chapter argues that these activities constitute a form of insurgent planning, a set of counterhegemonic practices by marginalized groups...

... independent learning, with the coach playing a role not only in assisting with the processes of needs analysis, goal setting and programme planning, but also in asking questions and discussing the process of self-directed learning. New Zealand responsibility self directed learning teacher coach coaching...

...Curriculum planning occurs on many levels: classroom, school, district, and national. This chapter chiefly sheds light on the classroom and school level of curriculum planning. We briefly describe the five common philosophical determinants of curriculum: perennialism, idealism, realism...

...This chapter historicizes contemporary questions about environmental sustainability and urban ecology in Indian cities. It begins by asking how comprehensive town planning came to form a locus of bureaucratic attention, particularly after 1947. It then argues that underlying assumptions in new town...

... Claude Marks Danny New Urban Zones Saigon rivers Saigon residents Saigon River sand science and scientists urban designers developers and planners wetlands and marshes ecological design ecosystems language sustainable urban development urban development and planning concrete...

...Cities and regions in Asia are facing problems that cannot be adequately managed by traditional urban planning. Competition and local protectionism have often hindered infrastructural development and regional integration. In southern China, an area embracing one-fifth of China and one-third of its...

... in the areas of bilingual education, language policy and planning (LPP), and studies of medium of instruction policy and practice both in Hong Kong and other Southeast Asian contexts will benefit from the book. Government officials and policy makers involved in language policy and planning, as well as school...

.... It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship. Messy Urbanism will appeal to professionals, students, and scholars in the fields of urban studies, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and policy, as well as Asian studies....

... Germany eco socialism exhibitions and conferences Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City megacities sustainability and sustainable development Vietnamese city making Vinh capitalism Cold War Eurocentrism green capitalism Vietnamese Institute of Architecture and Planning urban rural duality challenges...

..., and innovative approaches to bilingual education are discussed with a view to exploring possible fruitful directions for tackling LPP difficulties and dilemmas experienced in these societies. HSA historical structural approach LPP language policy and planning LIE language in education policymaker policymaking...

... Shanghai Shilin Night Market sidewalks Taipei colonialism Asia Global South City Beautiful Jacobs Jane messy urbanism modernism rational planning street hawkers urban informality urban planning orderliness Arellano Juan Beijing contested space Delhi informal settlements Seoul Tokyo...

... not provide answers to the city’s unique conditions led the city’s planning authorities to sponsor an experiment in more incremental and resident-driven urban visioning. While the experiments were limited in their impact, they have served to reveal more clearly the obstacles that community-engaged planning...

... and curriculum developers in curriculum planning differ in various curriculum conceptions. curriculum conceptions academic rationalism Eisner E W Schiro M Vallance E Three Rs Reading wRiting and aRithmetic Bruner J Hirsch's core knowledge curriculum “Man A Course of Study” MACOS role of teachers...

... of the Nationalist state in health planning and disease control in the mainland and in Taiwan; the dominance of the biomedical and technological approach in public health; the development and consequences of a global anti-malaria campaign; and the emergence of a postwar hegemonic political and economic order...

...This chapter looks at the voluntary vasectomy campaigns headed by Dr. Lee Hui-Yong at Seoul National University hospital, concurrent with ongoing family planning campaigns for much of the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, the surgery was first tested on a range of civilian subjects before becoming...

... in city planning, architecture, and Asian and imperial history. They aim to use the built environment as a method of analyzing the multiple experiences of colonial powers in China and northern Indochina. They also have brought together case studies about the regions where the concentration of Western...

...This chapter examines language planning and policy in Singaporean late modernity. It discusses Singaporean language policy's attempts to manage the tension between modernity and tradition and argues that a sociolinguistic ordering around notions of ethnicity and nation does not fit easily...