DOS ENCUENTROS URBANÍSTICOS: 4º COLOQUIO DE GEOGRAFÍA URBANA (Las Palmas) y 8ª CONFERENCIA DE LA INTERNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORY SOCIETY (Sydney).

Francisco Javier Monclús 

Después de los encuentros de Cuenca (1994), Alicante (1995), y Antequera (1996), el IV Coloquio del grupo de Geografía Urbana se planteó conjuntamente con el grupo de Turismo como una ocasión para reflexionar sobre el tema "Turismo y ciudad". En torno a este tema se trataba de favorecer un enfoque doble desde sendos grupos de estudio inscritos en la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles.

El lugar elegido -Las Palmas de Gran Canaria- no podía ser más oportuno. El impacto en el paisaje canario del fenómeno turístico, con el creciente proceso de privatización y depredación del litoral en el sur de la isla de Gran Canaria, constituye una de las manifestaciones más espectaculares del modelo de "sol y playa" adoptado durante las últimas décadas. Los estragos ocasionados por esa masiva urbanización del litoral, a la vez que las estrategias alternativas que, afortunadamente, se comienzan a vislumbrar en este campo, son objeto de atención tanto para geógrafos como para arquitectos y urbanistas. Esta vez, la institución anfitriona fue el Departamento de Arte, Ciudad y Territorio, de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Un departamento, por cierto, en el que conviven geógrafos y arquitectos urbanistas, hecho no muy usual en la Universidad española (y contra el cual actúa el mismo sistema universitario, al favorecer la creación de ámbitos o feudos independientes a partir de cierto tamaño). La dirección del Coloquio fue encomendada al profesor Guillermo Morales Matos, quién contó con la colaboración de otros profesores (Santiago, Ana , Alejandro...), miembros del grupo de Geografía Urbana y, en particular, con la de su actual presidente, Antonio Campesino, quién ha sido impulsor de un diálogo abierto entre geógrafos y profesionales de otras disciplinas, arquitectos urbanistas sobre todo.

El Coloquio se organizó en torno a tres ponencias: "turismo cultural", "terciarización de las ciudades españolas" y "planeamiento urbano y planificación turística". Para estos tres temas propuestos a debate fueron presentadas un total de 50 comunicaciones, por lo que se puede considerar que la convocatoria obtuvo una buena respuesta (ver relación completa al final). Como era de esperar y resulta lógico y consustancial a este tipo de encuentros, la diversidad en el contenido y metodologías de las distintas aportaciones, también fue uno de los rasgos dominantes en Las Palmas. En esta ocasión, al pretender integrar las visiones interesadas en el fenómeno del turismo con las que tienen su punto de mira en los procesos de urbanización, el riesgo de dispersión y eclecticismo era superior al de los anteriores encuentros. Obviamente, los organizadores eran muy conscientes de esos peligros y trataron de favorecer las visiones cruzadas e integradas como corresponde a los fenómenos abordados. Así, se proponía el análisis de aspectos interrelacionados y complejos como: el significado cultural de los distintos entornos turísticos (litoral, urbano, rural, natural); cambios funcionales y morfológicos experimentados en las ciudades españolas desde los años setenta hasta la actualidad; relaciones existentes entre planeamiento y planificación turística.

Una de las modalidades que en algunos encuentros se adoptan para evitar la frecuentemente farragosa lectura de todas y cada una de las comunicaciones es el sistema de relatorías. Un sistema razonable que trata de acotar al máximo el tiempo dedicado a la información sobre el contenido de las distintas aportaciones para dedicar mucho más a las discusiones metodológicas y a los debates teóricos. Pero si bien el sistema tiene sus ventajas, parecen claros los peligros e inconvenientes. En este caso, la correcta síntesis de las aportaciones de cada comunicación no fue seguida de una discusión tan animada como podría haberse esperado. Y es que no resulta nada fácil discutir sobre un conjunto de síntesis a partir de un número relativamente elevado de comunicaciones. Sobre todo cuando, como era de esperar, las aproximaciones y los objetos de estudio son tan diversos. Porque, cuando se habla turismo y ciudad, no es posible -ni deseable- hacer abstracción de los aspectos socioeconómicos, paisajísticos, medioambientales, arquitectónicos o urbanísticos.

Frente a esas dificultades del diálogo multidisciplinar, siempre han aparecido reacciones "autonomistas", es decir, repliegues y, a veces, ensimismamiento en cada disciplina. En cambio, parece que la única salida lógica a esta situación es precisamente la de la intensificación de esas visiones cruzadas sobre fenómenos que sólo pueden entenderse desde aproximaciones diversas e integradoras. Si el grupo de Geografía Urbana decidiera abrirse más a otras disciplinas, ello redundaría en un enriquecimiento indudable de las discusiones y en la consolidación de conceptos y vocabulario comunes. Sobre todo, cuando se constata un cierto avance de los "geógrafos urbanistas" -los más implicados directa o indirectamente en el planeamiento- dentro del más amplio grupo de los geógrafos urbanos. No está tan claro que los mismos fenómenos puedan ser analizados e interpretados de forma tan diferente y autónoma por geógrafos y urbanistas. Algo que puede suceder si se elaboran "Diccionarios de urbanismo" simultáneos e independientes por parte de sendos colectivos.

En cualquier caso, resulta preocupante la escasez de foros y ocasiones de debate "transversal" en el campo de los estudios urbanos en España. De momento, al margen de las publicaciones periódicas omnicomprensivas (como Ciudad y Territorio- Estudios Territoriales), el que impulsa el grupo de Geografia Urbana es el único existente que se ocupa de los temas propiamente urbanísticos, ya que las Asociaciones de Urbanistas suelen resultar excesivamente profesionalistas y están todavía lejos siquiera de pensar en abordar esa problemática desde una perspectiva integradora. 

Ponencia 1: Turismo cultural
Ponencia 2. Terciarización de las ciudades españolas
Ponencia 3: Planeamiento urbano y planificación turística

Eugenio García Zarza Universidad de Salamanca La ruta del Castellano (1)

Diego A.Barrado, Marina Castiñeira Universidad Autónoma de Madrid El Turismo Rural como Turismo cultural (1)

Concepción Foronda Centro Andaluz de Estudios Empresariales El patrimonio rural como activo cultural y turístico (1)

Noelia Gonzalez Universidad de Sevilla Turismo urbano en Sevilla: relación cultura-monumentos con la oferta hotelera de calidad en el casco histórico y sus alrededores (1)

Maria Victoria de Santos Universidad de Santiago Baiona, fuerte apuesta por el Tursimo Cultural (1)

José T.Suarez, Antonio J. Melián Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Turismo rural: definición, contexto y situación actual en Canarias. Aportación de las iniciativas locales de empleo (INEM) al desarrollo del Turismo Rural: caso concreto de la Aldea de San Nicolás de Tolentino (Gran Canaria) (1)

Vicente Vázquez Ayuntamiento de Sax Potencialidades para el desarrollo del Turismo Cultural en Sax (Alicante) (1)
María Dolores Ponce Murcia El asociacionismo como impulsor del Turismo Cultural en espacio rural. El Noroeste de la Región de Murcia (1)

Helena Giné Escuela Superior de Turismo de Huesca El Turismo Cultural como estrategia para la desestacionalización y regeneración de centros turísticos tradicionales (1)

Diego López, Hernán Canós Universidad Jaime I de Castellón Consideraciones sobre el desarrollo del Turismo Cultural en la comarca castellonense de Els Ports de Morella-Tinenca de Benifassa (1)

Santiago Hernández Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Los recursos culturales y comerciales en la oferta complementaria del turismo en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (1)

Martí Cors Universidad de Barcelona Patrimonio histórico y atracción turístico-cultural: el Museo Diocesano de Solsona (Cataluña) (1)

Mercé Gilí Universidad de Lleida Conservación del patrimonio y turismo de masas: el caso de un municipio de montaña:Vall de Boí (Catalunya) (1)

Victor O. Martín Universidad de La Laguna Turismo y valoración del patrimonio cultural monumental: el ejemplo del municipio de Garachico en el NW de Tenerife (1)

Alberto J.Rodriguez y Carlos F.Caicoya Plan Director de Coto Musel y del Centro de Interpretación Armando Palacio Valdés (1)

Francisco López, Belén Gómez Universidad de Barcelona Nuevos productos de Turismo Cultural: castillos y fortalezas de Catalunya (1)

Enrique Navarro Universidad de Málaga Turismo y Turismo Cultural en la ciudad de Málaga (1)

Alfonso Fernández, Enrique Santos Universidad de Sevilla El turismo urbano monumental/ cultural en Andalucía. Evolución reciente y diagnóstico de fortalezas y debilidades ante los nuevos escenarios turísticos (1)

Javier Callizo, Antonio J. Lacosta Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza como producto turístico urbano-cultural: arte, ferias, congresos y negocios (1)

Rafael López Universidad Rovira i Virgili La valorización del patrimonio como estrategia turística de reorientación en municipios litorales (1)

Inmaculada Chacón Escuela de Turismo de Aragón Significado del turismo cultural en los balnearios de Aragón (1)

Julia Azevedo Brasil Turismo cultural e desenvolvimento endógeno (1)

Miguel Seguí Grupo AMBIT, Palma de Mallorca (1) Turismo cultural en Palma (1)

Ramón Alvargonzález Universidad de Oviedo Los nuevos usos terciarios de las propiedades militares en Asturias (2)

Sergio Tomé, Miguel Angel Poblete Universidad de Oviedo Oviedo: turismo y medioambiente en Ciudades Medias (2)

Diego Antonio Barrado Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Nuevas centralidades terciarias periféricas y grandes equipamientos turísticos. El caso del Area Metropolitana de Madrid (2)

José María Serrano Universidad de Murcia Equipamiento universitario y terciarización de las ciudades españolas (2)

Mateu Picornell Universidad de las Islas Baleares Cambio formal y funcional en los espacios de destino turístico del municipio de Palma (2)

María del Carmen Cañizares Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha El progresivo proceso de terciarización de una ciudad industrial: Puertollano (2)

Luis Alfonso Escudero Universidad de Santiago Los Centros Comerciales, nuevos elementos de centralidad urbana en Santiago de Compostela (2)

José Antonio Aldrey Universidad de Santiago La periferia de Santiago de Compostela: emergente espacio residencial para activos terciarios (2)

María Francisca Alvarez Universidad Complutense de Madrid La difusión urbana y la terciarización en una Ciudad Media: Collado Villalba (2)

Carmen Delgado Universidad de Cantabria Mutaciones económicas y funcionales de las pequeñas ciudades y villas de Cantabria (2)

Juan Fernandez, Marién Madera Universidad de Oviedo Un modelo de transformación morfológica reciente: el barrio de El Llano en Gijón (2)

José Somoza Universidad de León Turismo y terciarización socioeconómica en Cinco Villas de las Rías Baja Gallegas (2)

Reyes González, Reyes Millán, Isabel Rico Sevilla El mercado de oficinas en Sevilla (2)

Amalia Vahí Sevilla Franquicia comercial y ciudad en los años noventa Sevilla y su área metropolitana (2)

Inmaculada Caravaca, Victor Fernandez Universiad de Sevilla Centralidad urbana y Administración Autonómica en Sevilla (2)

Josefina Domínguez, Juan Manuel Parreño Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Terciarización y urbanización en Canarias (2)

Ramón F. Díaz Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria La estructura sociolaboral canaria entre 1950 y 1996: de la primacía del primario a la hegemonía del terciario (2)

Carmen Ginés Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Gran Canaria: un análisis de terciarización de los espacios urbanos (2)

Silvia Sobral Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria La caracterización funcional del espacio urbano de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2)

Román Rodriguez, Bernardo Vázquez Universidad de Santiago Inserción de la Ley de Ordenación y Promoción del Turismo en la política territorial de Galicia (3)

Xavier Paunero, Juan Carlos Martinez Universidad de Gerona-AVANCSO La industria maquilladora y el ordenamiento urbano del Area Metropolitana de Guatemala (3)

Rosario Navalón Universidad de Alicante Los planes de ordenación de la oferta turística y planeamiento urbano en la Comunidad Valenciana (3)

Tomás Cortizo Universidad de Oviedo El paisaje, espejo del territorio (3)

Lorenzo López Universidad de León Cambios en el sistema urbano e indicadores de mercado y turísticos de las ciudades españolas (3)

F. Javier Monclús, Francisco Pellicer Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña/ Universidad de Zaragoza Diagnóstico y estrategias urbanístico-ambientales para un territorio en transformación. El "Mar de Aragón" y el Plan G.O.U. de Caspe (3)

Francesc González Universidad Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) El patrimonio local como estrategia de reordenación urbana y turística en la Costa Daurada (3)

La conferencia de Sydney es la octava de una serie que comenzó a final de la década de los setenta promovidos por el Planning History Group (constituído en 1974). La International Planning History Society, sucesora de aquel grupo desde 1993, continúa organizando encuentros cada dos años con la pretensión de convertirse en un importante foro internacional dedicado a analizar los problemas y estrategias del planeamiento con perspectiva histórica y multidisciplinar.

Es interesante destacar la originalidad de esta iniciativa de carácter multidisciplinar e internacional que tiene bastante que ver con el fenómeno de la "Urban History", auspiciado por H.J. Dyos desde los años sesenta.En el caso de la "Planning History", los impulsores serían dos personajes procedentes de campos disciplinares distintos y cuya aproximación no resultaba nada habitual por aquel entonces. Por un lado, la que protagonizaba Anthony Sutcliffe, un historiador interesado en los fenómenos urbanos. Por otro, la de Gordon Cherry -fallecido en 1996-, un geógrafo y urbanista que, después de dirigir el Centre for Urban and Regional Studies de la Universidad de Birmingham pasó a ser el presidente -durante 30 años- del máximo órgano de los urbanistas británicos, el Royal Town Planning Institute. Los 20 años de existencia del órgano de expresión del grupo (Planning History), o los 13 de la revista de mayor implicación y difusión internacional (Planning Perspectives), dan cuenta de la solidez de un proyecto intelectual y académico singular.

Después de varias congresos en distintos lugares sin periodicidad establecida (desde Londres en 1977 a Tokio en 1988 o Birmingham en 1989), los últimos encuentros se producen cada dos años en las ciudades que, previa presentación de candidatura, son seleccionadas para tal fín: Hong Kong (1994), Salónica (1996), Sydney (1998). Este verano la cita de Sydney se proponía de forma más abierta que otras anteriores (dedicadas a temas algo más específicos, como la Ciudad Jardín o el Planeamiento de las ciudades capitales), bajo el título "The Twentieth Century Urban Planning Experience". Una evaluación de la tradición del planeamiento contemporáneo, es decir, el que recorre todo el siglo XX, desde que se constituye como disciplina específica hasta la actualidad.

La ciudad anfitriona, esencialmente una ciudad de este siglo en la que se superponen distintas formas urbanas y tentativas de control urbanístico, resulta por tanto un buen lugar para reflexionar sobre los temas propuestos. A pesar de sus particulares procesos de urbanización en un continente singular, Sydney comparte muchos (no todos) de los problemas y oportunidades a los que se han enfrentado y se enfrentan las ciudades europeas y americanas en la actualidad. Porque Sydney constituye un ejemplo urbano interesantísimo en el que se combinan algunos rasgos propios de las ciudades europeas (como la relativa vitalidad del centro urbano) junto a los más llamativos procesos de dispersión suburbana (con "Edge cities" incluidas). La ubicación del área olímpica para los Juegos del año 2000, que se produce a unos 15 km de centro de la ciudad, resulta indicativa de las opciones tomadas en esta metrópolis de más de 4 millones de habitantes, en la que se prestan especial atención a los aspectos medioambientales y paisajísticos.

El centro anfitrión fue aquí la "Faculty of the Environment". Un tipo de centro habitual en los países anglosajones que reúne departamentos de Planificación junto a los de Arquitectura o de Geografía. Lo cual resulta sintomático de la voluntad de aproximar unas disciplinas que, en el fondo, se ocupan de temas muy relacionados entre sí, aunque no pierdan sus puntos de vista específicos. Temas que podríamos traducir aquí como los relacionados con el "entorno", es decir, toda la problemática urbanística, paisajística y medioambiental. Las sesiones fueron coordinadas por Rob Freestone, profesor en dicha facultad, quien no solamente desarrolló con eficacia la dificil y ambiciosa tarea de los aproximadamente 250 participantes (además de los asistentes sin comunicación), sino que permaneció día y noche atendiendo a todos los detalles relacionados con la intendencia, alojamiento y visitas de trabajo a diversos lugares de Sydney.

Un rápido análisis de los centros de procedencia de los participantes (aunque ello sólo es posible cuando hay referencias a departamentos o facultades específicas, sin olvidar la presencia de bastantes profesionales ajenos a la universidad), ofrece resultados interesantes. Así, de los 250 participantes, 57 provienen de facultades o departamentos de Arquitectura, 57 de Planificación, 47 de Medio Ambiente, 22 de Historia, 12 de Geografía. La muestra es, por tanto, representativa de la variedad de intereses y de perspectivas presentes en el encuentro. Si a ello se añade el carácter realmente internacional de los mismos (más de 40 paises), se puede concluir que el objetivo genérico de la conferencia ha sido alcanzado, constituyendo el más amplio encuentro celebrado hasta ahora.

Aunque una visión comparada con el encuentro de Las Palmas sólo es posible hasta cierto punto, dadas las diferencias de ámbito (nacional-internacional), participación (de uno a cinco) y de disciplinas implicadas (al menos media docena en Sydney), sí tiene sentido preguntarse por las posibilidades del aludido diálogo multidisciplinar en una situación en la que no sólo el Babel linguístico constituye cierto problema, sino sobre todo, por el Babel disciplinar que en Sydney debería de ser superior al de Las Palmas, debido a esas circunstancias. Sin embargo, lo cierto es que la estricta organización por temas y la asignación de espacios diferenciados consigue aproximar intereses y permite estructurar las discusiones en las más de 69 sesiones organizadas en 10 aulas de forma simultánea. Eso significa que uno puede participar en 7 sesiones, con un promedio de 4 comunicaciones cada una, si no se dedica a moverse entre fragmentos de sesiones, lo que supone que, en cualquier caso, no podría asitir a más de unas 25-30 comunicaciones en total. Lo cual parece bastante razonable y favorece la formación de pequeños grupos de discusión en cada aula.

Siete grandes epígrafes designaban los temas genéricos, que abarcan casi todos los temas "calientes" en el debate urbanístico internacional: 1. Ideas e ideología. Teorías, metodologías y paradigmas; 2. Políticas y estrategias; 3. Planes y planificadores; 4. Lugares y diseño . Paisaje, arquitectura y diseño urbano; 5. Planeamiento y medio ambiente; 6. Patrimonio y "herencia cultural"; 7.Espacio y Sociedad. Impacto del planeamiento. Cada uno de dichos temas se desarrollan en varios subtemas (correspondientes a las 69 sesiones) algo más específicos, como Suburbanización y Expansión , Ciudades "verdes", Arquitectura y ciudad, Vivienda, Perspectivas teóricas sobre el Diseño Urbano, Waterfronts, etc. o bien sobre países y ciudades concretas: desde Australia y Camberra a las ciudades asiáticas, americanas, africanas y europeas.

Hay que reconocer que un planteamiento como éste resulta todavía poco menos que insólito en nuestro país. No se trata de pensar en la adopción de los modelos anglosajones como única opción y estrategia de avance en la cultura urbanística. Probablemente, la ambición de efectuar una "exploración global de fin de milenio de las herencias y lecciones de un siglo de Planeamiento Urbano", tal como rezaba el subtítulo de la Conferencia de Sydney , resulta un tanto exagerada y no se puede decir que se extraigan conclusiones siquiera genéricas en la mayor parte de los aspectos tratados. Pero no cabe duda de que la necesidad de emplear perspectivas más globales, más multidisciplinares y, también, más internacionales en los estudios urbanísticos está más arraigada en el mundo anglosajón.

"Think globally but act locally", "piensa en global y actúa en local", la conocida máxima del movimiento ambientalista, podría ser también un lema para los estudios urbanos y territoriales. Visión global no significa una pérdida de las visiones propias o una menor atención por las especificidades locales. Al contrario, una mayor atención a lo que ocurre en otras disciplinas y en otros lugares debe reforzar nuestra visión y diagnóstico del grado de especificidad de los procesos urbanos y territoriales.

Temas generales

1. Ideas e ideologia. Teorías, metodologías y paradigmas
2. Políticas y estrategias
3. Planes y planificadores
4. Lugares y diseño . Paisaje, arquitectura y diseño urbano
5. Planeamiento y medio ambiente.
6. Patrimonio y "herencia cultural"
7. Espacio y Sociedad. Impacto del planeamiento

Las Actas del Congreso de Sydney fueron publicadas coincidiendo con la celebración del encuentro. La referencia de la publicación es: "The Twentieth Century Urban Planning Experience: Proceedings of the 8th International Planning History Society Conference and 4th Australian Planning/ Urban History Conference" University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1.006 pags., ISBN 0 7334 04553, precio internacional (incluyendo gastos de envio: 120 $ australianos, 12.000pts.)

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Nicholas Bloom Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Suburban Alchemy: New Towns and the Cultural Transformation of Suburbia

Philip Booth Department of Town & Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK From Regulation to Discretion: The Evolution of Development Control in the British Planning System 1909-1947

Michael Bounds and Drew Cottle Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, Campbelltown, New South Wales Whitlam in Werriwa: A study in the Urban Political History of Western Sydney

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Ray and Nan Burby College of Urban & Public Affairs, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La, USA The Curious Case of Heavy Industry in 20th Century Planning

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Sheila Byard Department of Social Inquiry & Community Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria The Right to the City: Citizens Action and the 1974 Melbourne Strategy Plan

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Graeme Davison Department of History, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria Engineers vs Environmentalists: The Origins and Fate of Melbourne's Freeway Plan, 1966-1974

Gene Desfor Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Ontario, Canada City Building Institutions in the Twentieth Century: The Case of Urban Development Corporations in Toronto

Neil Dewar Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 'Putting Things to Rights': Land restitution, public participation and inner city redevelopment in 'District Six', Cape Town

Jeffry Diefendorf Department of History, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA The Rocky Road of Traffic Planning: Traffic Arteries in Cologne and Basel

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Kevin Dunn School of Geography, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Refuting the Assumption that Community and Cultural Diversity in the City are Mutually Exclusive

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Sanja Durmisevic and Sevil Sariyildiz Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Spatial Planning with Underground Building in Information Society

Michael Ebner Department of History, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, USA Not Los Angeles? Masterplanning Irvine

Ramy El Diasty Department of Architectural Engineering, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates Open Space Planning in Desert Environment: The Predicament of Maintaining Historical Peculiarity, Cultural Character and Climate Responsiveness

Azza Eleishe Department of Architectural Engineering, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates The Green City Experience: Al Ain, Case Study

Chris Elliott Chris Elliott Architects, Rushcutters Bay, New South Wales The Earthly City

David Ellison PhD Candidate, Department of English, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Banks for the Memories: New Urbanist Nostalgia and Technoculture

Kathleen Ferguson Centre for Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, Monash University, Clayton, Vic Resuscitating 'Community' on Swanston Street

Ana C Fernandes Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Engenharia Civil, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brasil A Participatory Planning Experience in a liberal local government in Brazil

Dianne Firth Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Canberra, Belconnen, ACT Unifying a Divided City: The early landscape vision of the National Capital Development Commission 1958-1964

Karl Fischer Department of Town Planning, GhK University, Kassel, Germany Capital City Planning: A German-Australian comparison, Canberra-Bonn-Berlin

Raphael Fischler School of Urban Planning, McGill University, Montreal, Canada A Century of Planning: From Standard of Living to Quality of Life

Kelleann Foster Department of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA What's Old is New Again: The Use of Visualization in Communicating Planning Information and Policies

Claire Freeman Department of Resource and Environmental Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand The naturalising of urban open space: Experiences from the United Kingdom and New Zealand

Hildebrand Frey Urban Design Studies Unit, Department of Architecture and Building Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK The UK planning system: can it change from reactive to pro-active?

Stephen Frith Professor of Architecture, University of Canberra, Belconnen, ACT Interpreting Landscape: Bard College, New York, Revisited - A case study of the Masterplan for Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1988

Yoshiko Fujimoto Ohtani Women's Junior College, Osaka, Japan Change and Estimation in Living Conditions by the Reconstruction of Japanese Public Condominiums

Peter Fuller Auckland Regional Council, Auckland, New Zealand Praxis, Paradigms and Pendulums: One Hundred Years of Auckland Regional Planning

Christine Garnaut Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia Colonel Light Gardens: Back, to the Future

Barrie Gasson School of Architecture and Planning, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating and Promoting the Environmental Performance of Cities: Retrospect and Prospect

Andrea Gaynor Department of History, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia Amenity, Health and the 'modern community': Productive animals in the suburban landscape, Perth, Western Australia, 1880 to the present

Eve Gibson Ludmilla, Darwin, Northern Territory A Planner's Dream - A Citizen's Nightmare: Town Planning for the Tropical Town of Darwin 1930-1950

Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low Urban Research Program, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT and Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic Is Planning History?

Sezai Goksu Faculty of Arhitecture, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey 'Squatters' as Constitutive Outside and the Geographies of Exclusion: Some thoughts on the necessary presence of the 'other' within 'ours' through the Turkish Experience

Lorenzo Gonzales Instituto de Estudios Regionales y Urbanos, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela Caracas and the Problem of Modern Representation

David Gordon School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Edward Bennett and the 1915 Plan for Ottawa and Hull Creating a City Beautiful plan for Canada's capital

John Gregory NSW Department of Housing, Liverpool, NSW An Insiders View of Public Housing Innovation

Simon Greive Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia Urban Governance in Western Australia: The Primacy of Land and the Emergence of Growth Coalitions

Ron Griffiths Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom Urban planning and cultural development: The role of artist organisations

Berna Grist Department of Regional and Urban Planning, University College, Dublin, Ireland From Republicanism to Europeanism: Legal milestones in the evolution of the Irish Planning System analysed

Pyrs Gruffudd Department of Geography, University of Wales, Swansea, Wales, UK Science and the Stuff of Life: Modernism and Health in Inner London in the 1930s

Xavier Guillot Marang Road, Singapore Large Technical Systems and Ready-made Life: The Singaporean 'condo-mania'

Richard Guise Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Taken for Granted: Auditing the Paving Traditions of English Historic Towns

Qinghua Guo Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria Urban Conservation Progress in Beijing: The Features of Beijing Plans in 1938, 1953 and 1982

Errol Haarhof Department of Architecture, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Modernisation in the Colonies: The Garden City movement in New Zealand

Sam Haddad NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Sydney, New South Wales Environment Impact Assessment: Past and future

Peter Hall The Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London, UK 'A Telegram from the Queen': The Centenary of Modern Planning Gordon Cherry Memorial Lecture

David Hamer Department of History, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Historic preservation at the district Level: retrospect and prospect

Stephen Hamnett School of Geoinformatics, Building & Planning, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA The Adelaide Multi-Function Polis: From Serendipity City to Medium Density Suburb

John L Hancock Department of Urban Design & Planning, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA From the Halls of Montezuma to the Groves of Academe: Converting land from military to civilian use in San Diego, California 1918-1998

Bronwyn Hanna Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales Gendered spaces? Kitchen cupboards and building sites

Dorita Hannah School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Re-siting Theatre: Inside-out, Outside-in, Upside-down

Dennis Hardy Middlesex University, London, UK Quasi Utopias: Perfect Cities in an Imperfect World

Michael Harrison School of Theoretical and Historical Studies, BIAD, University of Central England, Birmingham, UK Continuity and Change in the Model Village: Bournville 1895-1998

Philip Harrison Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa Metaphor and Genealogy: Perspectives on the History of South African Planning

Trevor Hart School of the Built Environment, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK The Evaluation of Regional Programmes: Principles and Practice

Limin Hee and Wong Yunn Chii School of Architecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore The City in Context

Carola Hein Department of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Japan and the Transformation of Planning Ideas: Some Examples of Colonial Plans

Nottoli Hernan 4433, Rivadavia Av, Buenos Aires, 1205, Argentina Analysis of Planning Designs according to the Principles of Christopher Alexander

Elizabeth van Heyningen Department of History, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa A liberal town planner in Africa: LW Thornton White and the planning of Cape Town, Nairobi and Port Louis in the 1940s

Sue Holliday NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Sydney, New South Wales Metropolitan Planning and Demography: Sydney as a case study

Ian Hoskins Assistant Curator, Social History, Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, New South Wales Cultivating the Citizen: Parks, planning and citizenship in Sydney 1880-1920

Renate Howe and William S Logan Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne, Victoria Heritage and Globalisation in Asian Cities

Simon Howes Rosewater, Adelaide, South Australia Planning and the industrial residential interface in Port Adelaide: A critical examination of the evolution of planning policies at the interface of industrial and residential zones from a social and environmental perspective

Alan Hutchings Environment, Resources and Development Court, Adelaide, South Australia Urban Design and Planning: A Partnership in Evolution

Yorifusa Ishida Department of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan War, Military Affairs and Urban Planning

Mikiko Ishikawa Department of Architecture, Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Historical Evolution of Environmental Planning and Modern City Planning in Japan

Norioki Ishimaru Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan On the Progress and the Present Phase of Policy for Preserving Atomic-Bombed Buildings in Hiroshima

John T Jackson1, Darren Camilleri1, Peter Booth2 and Mitch Kosny3 Department of Landscape, Environment and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria (1), Department of Environmental Planning, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2) and School of Urban and Regional Planning, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada (3) International Competition, Urban Governance and Planning Projects: A comparison of Glasgow's, Melbourne's and Toronto's Industrial Waterfront Developments

Lea Jellinik Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria Jakartan Kampungs under Siege 1980s-1990s

Yuji Jinnouchi Hosai, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa-ken, Japan A Case Study of Historic Preservation in Japan: City of Kanazawa's Komachinami Preservation

Donald Leslie Johnson Adjunct Associate Professor, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia Origins of the Neighbourhood Unit Concept

Elmer Johnson Kirkland Ellis, Chicago, Illinois, USA Continuity and Change in Metropolitan Planning: Preparing Metropolitan Chicago for the 21st Century

Louise Johnson1, William S Logan1, and Colin Long2 Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne (1) and Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria (2) Jeff Kennett's Melbourne: Postmodern city, planning and politics

Tory Jones Gold Coast City Council, Gold Coast, Queensland Building on a Theme: The Gold Coast Imaginatively Reconstructed

Liu Thai Ker RSP Architects Planners and Engineers, Singapore Remaking Asian Cities: The second cycle

Kate Kerkin Department of Landscape, Environment and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne, Vic Making Space: A study of the social impacts of urban design

Denise King Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, UWS Macarthur, Campbelltown, New South Wales Living in Public Housing

Hitomi Kato Department of Architecture, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan A Historical Review of the Problems Associated with Narrow Streets in Residential Districts

Pam Kaufman Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Canberra, Belconnen, ACT Understanding Expectations: A Means to Achieving Greater Community Satisfaction with Planning Outcomes

Marina Gonzalez de Kauffman Research Institute of the School of Architecture, University of Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela Cost and Infrastructural Efficiency of Planned Urban Layouts for Low Income Houses in Maracaibo, Venezuela

Meg Keen Human Ecology Program, Department of Geography, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT Moving toward Sustainability: Integrating Strategic Environmental Assessment and Urban Planning

Rassem Khamaisi Department of Geography, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel The Israeli Land Use Planning Policy in East Jerusalem

Karl Kim Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hi, USA The Yin and Yan of Seoul: Planning, Modernity and Beyond

Sung Hong Kim Department of Architecture, University of Seoul, Seoul, Korea The Transformation of Consumption Space in the Planning of Ilsan New Town in South Korea

Mauro Kleiman IPPUR, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Water, Sewerage and Transport System Programs in Rio de Janeiro (1938-1996): The building of one segmented town

Peter Kohane Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales The role of boundaries in Louis Kahn's theory of architecture and the city

Laura Kolbe Institute of History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Modern Planning and Conservation of the Urban Past: UNESCO World Heritage List and the Baltic Sea Area

Jillian Koshin School of Australian & International Studies, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic Accommodating the Workers: Industrial Housing as a means to an end in Tasmania c1900-1985

Ashok Kumar Department of Physical Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India Historiography of Urban Planning in India

Christine Lambert, Nick Oatley, and Nigel Taylor Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Planning on the Edge

Jon Lang Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales Learning from Twentieth Century Urban Design Paradigms: Lessons for the Early Twenty-first Century

Michael H Lang and Michael Scheffler Department of Urban Studies and Community Planning, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, United States The New Jersey State Plan: Exemplar of European Influence in Contemporary American Urban and Regional Planning?

Geoff Lawler1 and Penelope Coombes2 Melbourne City Council, Melbourne, Victoria (1) and The People for Places and Spaces, Sydney, New South Wales (2) Making City Plan: Melbourne's Muncipal Strategic Statement

John Lea Department of Planning, Architecture & Allied Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Frontier Town: Jabiru and the Aborigines of the Kakadu Region

Guenter Lehmann School of Architecture & Building, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic Recipro(city): Special Projects and the 'New' Urbanism

Stephen Littlewood and David Whitney CUDEM, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK Sharing the Vision? Triumphs and Tribulations of Planning a Sustainable Future

William S Logan Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria Adoption and Rejection: Re-appraising the Soviet Influence on Townscape Formation in Indochina

Colin Long Department of History, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria Of edifice complexes, credit card consumers, sports stadia and marinas: Melbourne's Docklands as symbol of late 20th century urban development

Helen Lucas Cultural Heritage Branch, Queensland Department of Environment, Townsville, Qld From Charters Towers and Beyond: An Assessment of Queensland's Heritage Legislation

Tamas Lukovich Hungarian Society for Urban Planning, Budapest, Hungary Theme Parks: new/old patterns in postindustrial urban development

Sonja Lyneham Planning Workshop International, Sydney, New South Wales The Great Divide in the 2020 Mega City

Alan Mabin Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Reconstruction Movements and Twentieth Century Urban Planning

Tony McAvoy NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Sydney, New South Wales The Creation and Loss of Urban Aboriginal Culture: The Redfern Experiment

Chris McConville Faculty of Arts, Sunshine Coast University College, Maroochydore South, Queensland Beach Buoy: Reyner Banham rescues the modern city

Jan McCredie Hurstville City Council, Hurstville, New South Wales The Move Towards Outcomes Based Planning: Case Studies in Sydney

John McIntyre Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales John Sulman and the City Beautiful in Sydney

Kerrie MacPherson Centre of Urban Planning & Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong The Engineer and the City: Twentieth Century Chinese Urban Planning in Historical Perspective

Alessandro De Magistris Faculty of Architecture, Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy Reconstructing a Socialist Capital: Moscow and the General Plan of 1935

Brij Maharaj Department of Geography, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa The Olympic Games and Economic Development: Hopes, Myths and Realities - the Cape Town 2004 Bid

Flavia Marcello Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales Categorising Fascist Planning: A hybrid approach to planning theories

Marton Marosszeky Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales Open Building: An International Perspective in the Context of Technical Change in the 20th Century

Susan Marsden Australian Council of National Trusts, Canberra, ACT Contested space: Defining heritage in the postwar city centre in Australia

Stephen Marshall Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, London, UK The Evolution of Transport Networks with Urban Structure and Possibilities for Postmodern Settlement Design

MR Masnavi The Mackintosh School of Architecture, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Sustainability of the Compact City: Can it be a new Paradigm for Urban planning in the New Millennium?

Felia Srinaga Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, University of Pelita Harapan, Karawaci-Tangerang, Indonesia The Rise and Decline of Urban Design: The case of Jakarta Old Town

Helen Meller Department of History, University of Nottingham, UK Barcelona and Munich 1900-1940: Social Developments and the Planning of Urban Space

Barrie Melotte School of Architecture, Construction & Planning, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia Planning in the Perth Metropolitan Region 1900-1970

Ali Memon1, Jenny Dixon2 & Tom Fookes3 Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin (1); Resource & Environmental Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North (2); Department of Planning, University of Auckland, Auckland (3), New Zealand The Origins and Merits of the 'Effects-based Approach' to Urban Planning: A New Zealand Perspective

Andrew Meyers New York City, New York, USA City of Prosperity: New Deal New York and the Transformation of American Urbanism

Caroline Miller Department of Resource and Environmental Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand Regional Planning in New Zealand 1929-1946: An Exercise in Frustration

Mervyn Miller Chartered Architect and Town Planner, Baldock, Hertfordshire, UK Hampstead Garden Suburb: Paradigm or Paradox?

John Minnery School of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Surveying, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland Superman or Public Servant: The Changing Role and Influence of the Queensland Coordinator General

Glenn Mitchell Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 'The Miserable Monster': The East Circular Quay Project and the Social Duty of Building Workers

Javier Monclus Department of Town Planning, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Decentralisation, containment and green corridors: Compact city strategies in Spanish cities

Max Nankervis Department of Urban and Social Policy, Victoria University, Melbourne, Vic Here Today, but Not All Gone Tomorrow: Socio-economic change and the Shaping of the Urban Landscape - An Example from Inner Melbourne

Don Newman National Trust of Australia (Western Australia), Perth, Western Australia Urban Heroism in Western Australia

David Nichols Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Victoria Saxil Tuxen Goes To America: US Influences on Melbourne planning and housing reform in the 1920s

Seamus O'Hanlon Department of History, Monash University, Clayton, Vic Daily Life in a Prewar Melbourne Boarding House

Lionel Orchard Institute of Public Policy & Management, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA Shifting Visions: Ideas in Australian Urban Planning since the 1960s

Ab Oskam Adjunct Professor, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales Planning as a Cultural Achievement

Ahmed M.Salah Ouf Department of Architecture, University of the United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, UAE An Historic Account for Urbanisation in the United Arab Emirates: Links to the future

Janet Parks Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia University's First Century on Morningside Heights

Mark Peel Department of History, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria Talking Stories: Men, Women and Narratives of Social Change

Nihal Perera College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA Exporting Urban Perceptions: The Colonial Origins of Urban Problems and Planning in Colombo

Stefan Petrow Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania Planning for the State: Moves Towards Co-ordinated Planning in Tasmania 1944-1970

Usula von Petz Institut fur Raumplanung, Universitate Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany Inner City Development in East and West Germany: Different Dynamics in the Transformation of Urban Structures

Giorgio Piccinato Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome, Rome, Italy Historic Centres: Experts' versus Common Knowledge

Petra Potz Institute of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany The master plan as an instrument of conservation or chance for innovation: The example of Rome

Pratiwo Department of Architecture, Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang, Indonesia Chinese Settlement in the North-eastern Coast of Central Java, Indonesia

Peter Proudfoot Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Conflicts in Urban Waterfront Renewal: Official Controls on Environmental Issues

Caroline Puntillo Town Planner, Fairfield Heights, New South Wales The Vision Splendid? Prime Minister Paul Keating's Urban Ideology 1986-1996

Ana Radivojevic-Micanovic Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Morphological Change in the Urban Structure of Belgrade

Barbara Rahder Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada Pedagogy under Duress: teaching Planning Theory as History

A.A. Rahman Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria Urban Housing and Political Tension: Some Insights from the Psychology of Culture, with Special Reference to Muslim Housing Ideals

Leonid Rapoutov Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow, Russia Russian Garden-Cities in the Epoch of Art Nouveau

Binayak Rath Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kampur, India The Growth Centre Approach in Indian Planning: Lessons and Prospects for the 21st Century

Lyndal-Joy Redman Centre for Water Policy Research, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales History in the Making: The Changing Role of Local Government in the 20th Century - Integrated Planning and State of the Environment Reporting

Jonathan Rennie Schools of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Framing a site (Aotearoa/New Zealand) of Tourist Architecture

William Richardson Liberal Studies Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, WA, USA Bolshoi Vladivostok: Realizing communist urbanist goals in the late Soviet era

Daniel Rodriguez School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, USA Facilitating New Urbanist Agendas through Law and Planning Strategies: Perspectives from American Local Government Law

Maurits van Rooijen International Education Office, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom Origins of Green Cities: an applied planning historical study

Michela Rosso Facolta di Architettura, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy Economic, Social and Symbolic Strategies behind a National Law: Italy, 1942

Robert Samuels Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales Millennium Paradigms and fin de siecle Urban Climate

Leonie Sandercock Department of Landscape, Environment and Planning, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria The Twentieth Century Planning Experience: The Official Story versus Insurgent Represenations

Ben Schrader Department of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria Paris or New York? Contesting Melbourne's Twentieth-Century Skyline

Dirk Schubert Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Hamburg, Germany From Garden Cities to New Housing Estates and Gated Communities: The Neighbourhood Paradigm, Origin-Past-Present-Future

Allen J Scott Department of Policy Studies and Department of Geography, University of California-Los Angeles, California, USA Global City-Regions: Economic Planning and Policy Dilemmas in a Neoliberal World

Paolo Scrivano Dipartimento di Progettazione Architettonica, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy The Plan for Turin (1956-59): Theory and Practice

Glen Searle Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales Regime, Regulation and Two Decades of Central Sydney Development

Sehoon Park Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea Modernity in Colonial Urban Planning: Korea's Urban Planning Experience at the Experience at the Turn of the 20th Century

Elisabetta Serra Dipartimento di Progettazione, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy New areas for local development

Rubina N Shaikh and Raid Hanna Mackintosh School for Architecture/University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK The Need for a Gender Approach to Urban Development

Ritu Shankar Department of Physical Planning, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, India Urban Primacy in India: Implications and Future Directions

Gwenda Sheridan Kingston, Tasmania The Significance of Genius Loci in Historical Conservation and Urban Planning: A Tasmanian Experience

Mingzheng Shi Department of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA Must We Tear Down the Walls? The Cultural Dimension of Urban Planning in Twentieth-Century China

Sumie Shoji Department of Civil Engineering, Kanto-Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan Prospects of Public-Private Partnerships in Community-Based Planning: A Case Study of Movements in Yokohama City, Japan

Bijaya Shrestha Urban Design Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Urban Waterfront Development Patterns: An Integrated Design Structure

Remy Sietchiping Department of Geography, University of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon The Urban Periphery in Developing Countries: The case of Yaounde (Cameroon) in Tropical Africa

Christopher Silver Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA Jakarta's Planning and Development in the Pre-War Years

Neil Sipe Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA John Nolen: Planning Efforts in Florida 1915-1929

Peter J Smith Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Ab, Canada An Ambiguous Enterprise: The short, unhappy life of Canadian Regional Planning

Wolfgang Sonne Geschichte des Stadtebaus, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Canberra 1912: The Representation of Democracy in the Age of Imperialism

Andre Sorensen Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Land Readjustment, Urban Planning, and Urban Sprawl in Metropolitan Tokyo

Tony Sorensen and Martin Auster School of Geography, Planning, Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales Theory and Practice in Planning: further apart than ever?

Gilbert Stelter Department of History, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Rethinking the Significance of the City Beautiful Movement

Chrys Stevenson Golden Beach, Caloundra, Queensland Betrayed by Mammon?: A Century of Conflict over Development of Queensland's Sunshine Coast 1888-1997

Elaine Stratford Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania Public Places, Urban Youth, and Local Government: The Skateboard Culture in Hobart's Franklin Square

Richard Strauss School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW The Cumberland County Council Planning Scheme, Sydney's Green Belt, and the Anti-Urbanist Imperative

Anthony Sutcliffe Department of History, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK The Planner at the Movies: The silver screen as a mirror of planning & architecture, 1918-1998

Bonj Szczygiel Department of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University, USA Health as a Planning Paradigm: Past Models of Healthy Environments and Implications for Future Collaboration

Jennifer Taylor Department of Planning, Architecture & Allied Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Tall Buildings in Australian Cities: Ideals and urban realities

Nigel Taylor Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Paradigms and Town Planning Theory Since 1945

Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather Department of Geography and Planning, University of New England, Armidale, NSW Homes for the Ancestors: Establishing new traditions of burial through the provision of columbaria in Hong Kong

Makato Terauchi Department of Architecture, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan The Characteristics of Urbanisation in Modern Osaka (1900-1940)

Susan Thompson Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Dislocation and Resettlement: Migrant women's experiences of home

Shinji Tsubohara Department of Science for Living, Tsu City College, Mie, Japan The Study of the Industrialisation Process in Yokkaichi before 1945: Planning History leading to Yokkaichi Pollution

Catherine Ward Thompson School of Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Urban Parks: The Historic Legacy and The Contemporary American Experience

Marcelo Tramontano Department of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Urban Solutions and Domestic Spaces: Trends for the next century

Ilan Troen Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel/Mandelbaum Scholar, University of Sydney Planning for 21st Century Israel: Evaluating the possibilities for change in the Zionist Planning Experience

Patrick Troy Urban Research Program, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT The Future of Cities

Christopher Vernon School of Architecture & Fine Arts, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA The Academy at the Edge of the Antipodes: The University of Western Australia Design Competition 1914

Jillian Walliss Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia Back to Front Housing: An Australian Variation of Radburn

William Walton Department of Land Economy, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK From traffic accommodation to traffic reduction

Stephen Ward School of Planning, Oxford Brookes, University, Oxford, UK Re-examining the International Diffusion of Planning

Henry Wardlaw Planning Consultant, Clareville, New South Wales The United Nations Urban Renewal and Development Project, Singapore, 1967-1991

Shun-ichi Watanabe Department of Architecture, Science University of Tokyo, Noda, Japan Changing Paradigm of the Japanese Urban Planning System

Naniek Widayati Department of Architecture, Tarumanagara University. Jakarta, Indonesia Revitalization of the Warehousing alongside Opak River, North Jakarta

Judith Wilks Sawtell, New South Wales Planning in Melbourne 1950-1985: The Formation of Professional Ideologies

William H Wilson Department of History, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA Planning on the Pacific Rim: Reginald H Thomson of Seattle

Patrick Wirtz School of Urban Planning & Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA The Evolving Middle Landscape: Valencia, California

Pei-ju Yang Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan Design with Nature, or Design with Natural Process? Rethinking McHarg's Approach in Taipei

Takashi Yasuda and Tadatoshi Kishi Department of Architecture, Setsunan University, Osaka, Japan A Study of the Beginning of Metropolitan Regional Planning and Conservation Policies for Kinki (Osaka, Kyoto and Nara)

Hans Wing Yu Yeung Department of History, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong The First Municipality of China: Guangzhou's Municipal Experience, 1921-1926

Takashi Yokota Department of Architectural Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Location Planning of Medical and Welfare Facilities for Elderly People in Japan: Historical Perspective

Jianying Yuan PhD in Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China Building the Chinese Information City

Alison Ziller Australia Street Company, Neutral Bay, NSW Social Capital as Infrastructure in Large (Sub)urban Development, Case study: The O'Brien Road Project, WA

Wallace van Zyl Fish Hoek, West Cape, South Africa South African Townscape: Conservation and Development Conflicts

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