Bangladesh has celebrated its fifty years of independence in recent years with immense joy, and expectations. However, at the same time, we have to ponder what more should we be aiming to achieve in ...

Efficient spatial planning can lead to better economic, social, and environmental outcomes. That’s the idea behind a World Bank Report, which argues that such planning can play a strategic role in ...

Public participation in spatial planning is a vital means to successful policymaking and can be enhanced by combining geospatial methods with participatory learning and action. Based on a pilot study ...

Pete Canavan, reflects on the recent announcement in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill that that Spatial Development Strategies will be put in place at a sub-regional level #UKhousing Will the ...

At the dawn of democracy, South Africa entered an exciting era during which urban and rural redevelopment interventions were going to undo the manifestations of apartheid and colonialism through ...

These documents provide a consistent approach to spatial planning nationwide for the development of new areas or the redevelopment of existing ones. With the revised spatial planning documents now ...

South Africa’s planning and development trajectory has been positioned as a tool for transformation, equity and redress since the country’s democratic transition in 1994. However, the promise of ...

Recent controversies in Squirrel Hill, Society Hill, Point Breeze, and just about every other neighborhood in Philadelphia have prompted new debates around land use, equity, and fears of displacement.