The Ancestry of Regional Spatial Planning A Planner's Look at History /
This book is not a historical or archaeological treatise, but rather a study in which the author looks at the past, not as a historian, but as a planner who has the ambition to unravel the early manifestations of his discipline; a discipline which did not exist as such in remote periods, but the ing...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Ch.1. Introduction (Looking for the origins of regional spatial planning - Short presentation of chapters - Appendix on regional planning in the interwar period)
- PART I (Chapters 2-11)
- Ch.2. Historical periods, regions and examples
- Ch. 3. Greek colonization
- Ch. 4. Colonies and towns in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Empires
- Ch. 5. New capitals
- Ch. 6. Middle Ages and Modern Era: Towns and planned settlements
- Ch. 7. Land: Empires and ancient world
- Ch. 8. Land: Medieval period and Modern Era
- Ch. 9. Government, territorial organization and decision structures
- Ch. 10. Trade, industry and natural resources
- Ch. 11. Transport, infrastructures and fortifications
- Ch. 12. Parameters of analysis
- PART II
- Ch. 13. Planning "actors", government and regions
- Ch. 14. Planning process: Means and survey
- Ch. 15. Population re-distribution and spatial re-structuring
- Ch. 16. Towns and urban networks
- Ch. 17. Land, natural resources and innovations
- Ch. 18. Networks, flows, trade and interconnected areal units
- Ch. 19. Long-run change and future prospects: Closing statement
- Bibliography
- Index.
