Contents:
Foreword Gary Hack
Part I: Intellectual Underpinnings and Practices Introduction.
The Resurgence of Regional Design Michael Neuman and Wil Zonneveld
1. The Emergence of Regional Design: Recovering a Great Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning TraditionMichael NeumanChapter
2. European History and Traditions: Revisiting the European Spatial Development Perspective Andreas Faludi Chapter
3. The Ecological Underpinnings of Regional Design Frederick Steiner Chapter
4. Contemporary Regional Design Theory Verena Balz Part II: City Region Case StudiesChapter
5. Urban Policies and Strategies for Balanced Regional Development in KoreaWang Geun Lee Chapter
6. Japan's Linear Megalopolis: Shinkansen High-speed Rail as the Spine of a 60-year Mega-region EvolutionHitomi Nakanishi and Fumitaka KurauchiChapter
7. Germany's 'European Metropolitan Regions'Stephanie DuhrChapter
8. Can Megalopolis Continue To Thrive? A Profile of the US Northeast Megaregion and Its ProspectsRobert YaroChapter
9. The Texas Urban Triangle MegaregionMichael NeumanChapter
10. Designing the New York Metropolitan Region Tom WrightChapter
11. The Santiago de Chile Metropolitan System: Transformative Tensions and Contradictions Shaping Spatial PlanningRoberto Moris and Bill SiembiedaChapter
12. Nairobi Garth MyersChapter
13. Design and Governance For the Barcelona City RegionAntonio FontChapter
14. Regional Planning and Regional Design in Greater Paris Anna Geppert and Xavier DesjardinsChapter
15. Sydney: Evolution Towards a Tri-city Metropolitan Region and BeyondRob Freestone and Simon PinnegarChapter
16. Who Designed Los Angeles? Nature, Profit, Policy, PeopleTridib Banerjee Part III: Hydraulic, Ecological, and Bioregional Design Case StudiesChapter
17. The Dutch Deltametropolis Lianne van DuinenChapter
18. The Regional Design of Green Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta Lei Qu and Dongjn Qi Chapter
19. Regional Design Stepping into the SeaSue Kidd and David Shaw Chapter
20. Bioregional Design: The Design Science of the Future Pliny FiskPart IV: Education, Management, and GovernanceChapter
21. Interdisciplinary Pedagogies for Regional Development Challenges: The Re-coupling of Planning, Design and the Social SciencesLukas Gilliard, Remon Rooij, Nadia Alaily-Mattar, Wil Zonneveld, and Alan ThiersteinChapter
22. Imagining the Region Alfonso Vegara and Juan Luis de las RivasChapter
23. Mapping for Regions Wil ZonneveldChapter
24. The Complex Ecology of the City-RegionWillem SaletChapter
25. The Futures of Regional Design Michael Neuman and Wil ZonneveldEpilogueCatherine L. Ross