Planning in a Global Era. Andy Thornley & Yvonne Rydin (Eds). Aldershot, Ashgate, 2002. 448 pp., £49.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 7546 1943 5
M Spaans (TU Delft - Urban Development Management)
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Abstract
Globalisation in planning was put on the scientific research agenda by inspiring publications by Castells and Sassen. Since then research on the influences of globalisation on cities and urban and spatial policy has become more widespread. The concept of globalisation is often under discussion and the editors of Planning in a Global Era endorse this. The definition that they use as their basis is that of Held and colleagues (1999): “widening, deepening and speeding up of world wide connectedness in all aspects of social life”. This book consists of a wide range of contributions that were originally presentations at the Planning Research 2000 Conference at the London School of Economics. As in many books that have been put together in similar circumstances, widely differing papers are forced into juxtaposition between the same covers. The introduction the editors have given to the 17 contributions that follow is rather brief, even though they do have the intention of developing a common theoretical framework. Unfortunately, they have even neglected to put forward an adequate credible co‐ordinating framework within which the 17 contributions could each be given a logical place. [...]