Overview

This book reviews past, present and future perspectives of spatial planning, resulting in a comprehensive book, which recaps the past decades and provides outlooks for the future, based on a human-central approach in urban planning which is characteristic for Urbanism in Delft, The Netherlands. ""Shifting Sense"" consists of four parts. The first two parts are mainly retrospective, considering the relation between societal and spatial aspects, needs and conditions, and new technological developments. The third and fourth part, Networks and Strategies present relevant starting points for the future. By giving a thorough review and analyses of the past, direction can be given to the future. This book sets cornerstones for formulating future outlooks and will serve as an inspiration for a next generation of students, researchers, and practitioners.

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Shifting Sense offers much more than a standard collection of essays: it provides a clear and integrated view of possible regional and urban futures set within the contesting contexts of globalisation and an ever more intense search for local identity. AND Making sense of what has taken place, and why, is a fundamental pre-requisite for making informed choices about the future; this book provides such a capability and illustrates the analysis through cases of both failure and success. But more than this, Shifting Sense also provides a rationale for innovation in policy and practice, and by doing this it allows the reader to comprehend both the scale of the challenge which confronts us and the great opportunities which exist. Peter Roberts, University of Liverpool, October 2005

"""Shifting Sense offers much more than a standard collection of essays: it provides a clear and integrated view of possible regional and urban futures set within the contesting contexts of globalisation and an ever more intense search for local identity."" AND ""Making sense of what has taken place, and why, is a fundamental pre-requisite for making informed choices about the future; this book provides such a capability and illustrates the analysis through cases of both failure and success. But more than this, Shifting Sense also provides a rationale for innovation in policy and practice, and by doing this it allows the reader to comprehend both the scale of the challenge which confronts us and the great opportunities which exist."" Peter Roberts, University of Liverpool, October 2005"""

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The editors are staff members of the Chair of Spatial Planning in Delft since long. The 29 contributions present an international selection of authors whose work has a relation to this Chair, and who, through their work, have contributed to the outlook that is presented in this book and is central to Spatial Planning in Delft.

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