Overview

Throughout the twentieth century, planning and planners were central to our understanding of cities and regions. Today, however, planning is facing powerful challenges – professionally, intellectually, practically – in ways arguably not seen before. Recent developments and trends are raising fundamental questions about how we plan regions. Planning is no longer solely the domain of professional planners but has been opened up to a diverse group of actors, each with their own interests. The study of cities and regions was traditionally taught in planning schools and geography departments, but this link with place and space disciplines is being steadily eroded as research increasingly takes place in and through interdisciplinary research institutes. Against this backdrop, Regions in Evolution provides the first comprehensive account of a hitherto untold history of regions and planning. Told through the unique lens of regional studies, the authors bring to light the role of key individuals, groups and disciplines in shaping research agendas and debate. It reveals voices which were marginalised, planning ideas which were lost, approaches that keep coming back, and challenges that persist. Believing passionately in the values and purpose of regional planning, while sceptical of the one-size-fits-all institutional form that Regional Planning often adopts, the authors develop an argument for planning regional futures based on a multitude of approaches, methods and strategies that might still require someone to make sense of it all.

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Author:   Daniel Galland ,  Mark Tewdwr-Jones ,  John Harrison
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032041117

ISBN 10:   1032041110
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   23 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The evolution of regions and planning Part I: History, Hallmarks and Heyday (Pre-1967) 2. Confronting the limits of the local: the emergence of regional consciousness 3. Putting the region into regional planning 4. Incremental forms of regional planning: a faltering and ad hoc approach Part II: Professional as Vindication or Curse? (1967-1979) 5. Regional planning: Branching into diverging styles 6. What was ‘regional’ about 1960s regional planning? 7. A spatial scientific approach to regional planning Part III: Regional Problems, Regional Planning Solutions? (1979-2007) 8. Regional planning perplexed: meandering across multiple policy agendas 9. Planning amid an explosion of regional spaces 10. The outmanoeuvring of regional planning by trends and circumstance Part IV: Whither Regional Planning? (2007-2020) 11. Do planning and planners matter for regional development? 12. Let the old see the new: a modern twist or old wine in new bottles? 13. Keeping the regional planning idea alive through institutional churn Part V: Planning Regional Futures (2021- ) 14. Planning regional futures: regional planning as part of the problem or part of the solution? 15. Renewing regional imaginaries: fads and fashions, old ideas made good, or running out of new ideas? 16. Regional planning as a multitude of approaches Conclusion 17. Renewing the planning of regions – might regions still need a coordinator supremo?

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Daniel Galland is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark. Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Bartlett Professor of Cities and Regions at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, UK. John Harrison is Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at Loughborough University, UK.

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