Because of the technological complexity of contemporary planning and building, it is no longer possible for a single architect or designer to be an expert in all the many aspects that make up a modern building.
To the comment, "What did Jane Jacobs ever build?" Jane Jacobs built a growing movement of people who care about their cities and understand how to preserve and improve them, as well as a vocabulary of contemporary planning terms and economic theories that speak directly to the crisis of our time, to name a few things JJ built.
Despite the emphasis on sustainable development in some of the contemporary planning and policy rhetoric, we face an implementation deficit in practice.
This chapter introduces several contemporary planning concerns that involve the spatial relationship between forest management activities and resource-related goals.
Toronto's quest to host the Summer Olympic Games has dominated both contemporary planning discourse and practice.
In doing so, we scrutinize how notions of urban resilience, climate adaptation, and ecosystem-based infrastructure are influencing contemporary planning practice.
The paper holds that interpreting planning processes through the lens of the "Trading zone" concept proposed by Peter Galison in the field of history of science could be an interesting way of dealing with the extreme complexity of contemporary planning problems.
Many contemporary plans and policies to manage the rural-urban divide in developing countries are still based on experience and theory developed by Western scholars before China began to urbanize rapidly in the 1980s at a scale and pace unique in human history.
It then briefly considers the methods and technologies that are most widely used in contemporary planning practice: (a) spreadsheets, (b) geographic information systems (GIS), (c) planning support systems (PSS), (d) visualization and multimedia systems, and (e) the internet and the worldwide web.
On the other hand, a near-contemporary plan of the Royalist dispositions by Rupert's chief engineer, Bernard de Gomme, shows the ditch in its present-day alignment.
