Tourism Planning and Policy

This volume presents a broad-ranging and insightful exploration of social innovation and how it can affect life, society and economy, especially within local communities. It addresses key questions about the nature of social innovation as a process and a strategy and explores what opportunities may ..

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that esc..

The new EU member states have been facing a wide range of planning and urban development problems since the transition in 2004. Bringing together specially commissioned articles on each of the ten countries, this volume examines these problems and their relevance to the EU accession...

The new EU member states have been facing a wide range of planning and urban development problems since the transition in 2004. Bringing together specially commissioned articles on each of the ten countries, this volume examines these problems and their relevance to the EU accession...

This book brings together critical perspectives of regeneration with a particular focus that reflects on the interconnectedness of events, sport and tourism studies from scholars in different parts of the world. By doing so this book assesses if new opportunities have arisen from developments, incre..

Across the world the prevailing narrative has become one of Good Governance, devolution, liberation, and freedom of expression. In policy fields as diverse as development planning, healthcare, and public transport a neo-pluralist rhetoric has emerged based on the principles of ’co-production’ and p..

This book approaches the key challenges of achieving urban sustainability in a holistic way. It brings together academics and practitioners to analyze the complexity and interdependence of principles, models, processes and practices of sustainability in a range of integrated sectors to identify whic..

This book approaches the key challenges of achieving urban sustainability in a holistic way. It brings together academics and practitioners to analyze the complexity and interdependence of principles, models, processes and practices of sustainability in a range of integrated sectors to identify whic..

The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning..

Offers a look at the dynamics of the city, that is, how cities work in relation to the long cycles of economic development and suggests that a wave of prosperity, built on technologies and industries, is just getting underway in the Western world...

The idea of "resilience" has been a popular and optimistic policy response to the Great Recession. Resilience has been promoted widely in environmental and economic policy but less so in aesthetic studies. This book collects varying experiences of art in relation to environmental and economic crises..

This handbook presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their specialized areas to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve as new c..