Typologies of national urban policy: A theoretical analysis

Holland, Brian

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.06.008

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“…109). This reinforces the need for a country-centred approach to the analysis of urban planning policy as wider -and arguably more abstractanalyses can lack depth in their insights (see Holland, 2015).…”

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confidence: 85%

National high street retail and town centre policy at a cross roads in England and Wales

Hallsworth

Coca‐Stefaniak

2018

Cities

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For eighty years, UK government policy related to urban sprawl, town centres and high streets in England and Wales has been dominated by planning/land-use control. In the postwar period, retail developments have often been discussed in the literature on planning for placesbut the wide range of pressures for retail change are rarely brought together. This review of policy discusses many of these pressures: many of which fall beyond the urban planning remit. For example, although retail planning regulations have been influenced by Central Place Theory, this theoretical framework offers no insight on those private sector businesses that interface with urban planning. Worse, few (if any) professional town planners study retailing before formulating plans. Furthermore, the willingness of successive governments to exert meaningful influence through planning rules has ebbed and flowed, leaving town centres at a potential crossroads. This study addresses the vital missing link to business operations and the rising pressures upon themusing Institutional Theory. Building on the findings of this analysis as well as earlier studies from other parts of the world, this article outlines implications for the management of town and city centres in England and Wales.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 85%

National high street retail and town centre policy at a cross roads in England and Wales

Hallsworth

Coca‐Stefaniak

2018

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“…Well-known indicators such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), interest rate, public deficit, and other macroeconomic statistics are widely used in decision-making in public and private instances. However, economic indicators do not respond to the need to measure and therefore assess other crucial dimensions of development, such as social and environmental, and may only represent economic growth [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies such as Alves et al (2016) [21], Lopez-Carreiro and Monzon (2018) [22], Choi (2018) [23], and Jeong et al (2016) [24] have used typologies as a tool for urban sustainable planning such as population growth, performance in intelligent transport systems, or degree of development and mobility. Holland (2015) [25] constructed a typology according to urban policies of development in North American cities, identifying eight typologies to illustrate the range of choices available to decision-makers in the policy process of urban public policy making. However, few studies to this date have used typologies in Latin American cities to explore multivariate socioenvironmental characteristics that are related to health of the environment, and none has been developed for a regional territorial cut such as the MRSP [14,15].…”

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An Environmental Health Typology as a Contributor to Sustainable Regional Urban Planning: The Case of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP)

2019

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The recognition of metropolitan regions and their growth as a necessary scale of analysis for their integrated management has become a central characteristic of urban planning. The current metropolitan landscape warrants the use of instruments beyond the municipal scale, especially since the economic integration of cities and their development are accentuating urban problems that affect the sustainability of cities. The São Paulo Metropolitan Region (MRSP), one of the world’s megacities, is used as a case study to identify how typologies can contribute to integrated sustainable urban planning and management at the metropolitan level. It applies the territorial analytical typology based on the Driving-Force-Pressure-Situation-Exposure-Effect-Actions (DPSEEA) Environmental Health Matrix to identify the heterogeneity of conditions encountered in large metropolitan regions such as the MRSP. The results show a great variety of environmental and social conditions present in the municipalities of the MRSP that condition the sustainability and health of the urban environment. This typology constitutes a first step to characterize metropolitan regions in socioenvironmental terms using as a conceptual basis a matrix of environmental health indicators, being a precursor in the largest metropolitan region of Brazil.

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“…In many nations of both the developed and developing world an important strand of public intervention is concerned with policies affecting the urban system (Holland ). Examples include: New Towns in the UK (Rodwin ); the métropoles d’équilibres in France (Allen & MacLennan ); the promotion of intermediate‐sized centers in various developing nations (Rondinelli ); the selection of centers for the improvement of service provision in rural areas (Leinbach ) .…”

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Cautionary Notes on the Rank‐size Distribution

Parr

2019

Rev Urban & Reg Develop

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In the analysis of center populations at both the national and regional levels considerable use has been made of the rank-size distribution. Within the extensive literature on this distribution, however, there are a number areas that are unclear, neglected, or misleading. Consideration is initially given to the form of the rank-size distribution and to the manner in which it is related to other distributions, notably the Pareto and the lognormal. Attention is also focused on the application of the rank-size distribution to data on center size and on the difficulties that arise in this connection, including the problem of establishing rank-size regularity. The discussion concludes by taking issue with the contention that the rank-size distribution is of relevance in the design and formulation of urban policy.

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Typologies of national urban policy: A theoretical analysis

Cited by 78 publications

References 13 publications

National high street retail and town centre policy at a cross roads in England and Wales

National high street retail and town centre policy at a cross roads in England and Wales

An Environmental Health Typology as a Contributor to Sustainable Regional Urban Planning: The Case of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (MRSP)

Cautionary Notes on the Rank‐size Distribution

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