POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning

Paper · Semantic Scholar

ABSTRACT This essay provides an evolutionary analysis of how classical theoretical approaches in public policy implicitly or explicitly conceptualize institutional change. Early public policy analysis was guided by a behaviorist and rationalist perspective, which viewed change as an automatic consequence of sound, science-based policy formulation and implementation. The emphasis lay more on administrative rationalit…

Reference · Wikidata

technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Urban planning is the process of developing and designing plans for land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility. Traditionally, urban planning followed a top-down approach in master planning the physical layout of human settlements. The primary concern w…

Book · DOAB

There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the expansion of new cities and industrial complexes across the country, have become one such model, even if the fruits of such development may not have been equitably shared across geographies and gener…

Full text · Open Library

"We live in a world of regions, not nations, states, or cities. Today, most Americans live in an aggregation of cities and suburbs that forms one basic economic, ecological, cultural, and civic entity. These "Regional Cities" offer a framework for transforming urban and suburban neighborhoods from segregated enclaves with isolated uses into walkable, diverse, human-scale communities. They also set the stage for a di…

Image · DPLA

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