Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world with internationally recognized authors taking up urgent and salient issues from theory, to education for and practice of planning.

This 7th volume features contributions on the theme of Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices. It includes chapters from leading planning scholars and practitioners who critically examine how transformative planning practices seek to reduce inequalities, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, achieve gender equality, improve human health and well-being, foster resilience of urban communities and protect the environment and thereby change urban planning paradigms. Several case studies of emerging transformative planning interventions illustrate practical ways forward.

Transformative Planning offers provocative insights into the global planning community’s struggle and contribution to tackle the major challenges to society in the 21st century. It will be of use for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the wide-ranging fields encompassed by urban studies, sustainability studies, and urban and regional planning.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and its member national and transnational planning schools associations.

Andrea I. Frank, PhD is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests encompass comparative international planning, sustainable development, public participation and pedagogy. Throughout her career she has promoted capacity building for and in planning education. She has represented the Association of European Schools of Planning and Chaired the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) 2010-14. She is currently Chair of the Association of European Schools of Planning’s (AESOP) Excellence in Teaching Prize Jury and coordinates the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Education. Her scholarly work includes Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects (co-edited with C. Silver, 2018) and Teaching Urban and Regional Planning: Innovative Pedagogies in Practice (2021) with Artur da Rosa Pires. She is one of the founders of AESOP’s open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal Transactions of AESOP.

Christopher Silver, PhD, FAICP is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who joined the faculty at University of Florida in 2006 as Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning (until 2016). Previously he served as Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998-2006) and as Professor of Planning and Associate Dean at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a four-time Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia and holds honorary professorships at the University of Indonesia and the Institute of Technology, Bandung. Silver’s scholarship includes 8 books (authored, co-authored and edited), 16 book chapters and 18 refereed articles. His initial publications dealt with race, politics and planning in the United States, including Twentieth Century Richmond: Planning, Politics and Race (1984) and (with John Moeser) The Separate City: Black Communities in Urban South, 1940-1968 (1995). Teaching, consulting and researching in Indonesia led to Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century (2008), (with Victoria Beard and Faranak Miraftab) Decentralization and Planning: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South (2008) and (with Andrea Frank) Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects (2018). His current publications focus on urban flood risk and water management in Jakarta. He is a past co-editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the founding editor of the Journal of Planning History. He served as President of the Society of American City Planning History, Vice President and president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network, and Executive Secretary of the International Planning History Society.