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Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume I, Perspectives on a Transitional Century, edited by David Fanfani, Alberto Matarán Ruiz

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Bioregional Planning and Design: Volume I

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edited by David Fanfani, Alberto Matarán Ruiz

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Perspectives on a Transitional Century

This book provides a review of the bioregionalist theory in the field of spatial planning and design as a suitable approach to cope with the growing concerns about the negative effects of metropolization processes and the need for a sustainable transition. The book starts out with a section on rethinking places for community life, and discusses the reframing of regional governance and development as well as social justice in spatial planning. It introduces the concept of the urban bioregion, a pivotal concept that underpins balanced polycentric spatial patterns and supports self-reliant and fair local development. The second part of the book focuses on planning, and particularly on the issues that arise from the ‘circular’ recovery of the relation between city and agro-ecosystems for integrated planning and resilience of settlements and discusses topics such as foodshed planning, biophilic urbanism and the integration of rural development and spatial planning. This volume sets out the reference framework for Volume II which deals with more specific and operational issues related to spatial policies and settlement design.--, Provided by publisher

Chapter 1. Introduction: Bioregional planning. Relocalizing cities and communities for a post oil civilization -- Chapter 2. A bioregional Bridge Across the Urban Rural-Divide -- Part I: Rethinking places for community life -- Chapter 3. The urban bioregion in the territorialist approach -- Chapter 4. Rearticulating the economy from the local level: towards an economy rooted in caring for life. Chapter 5. Bioregion and spatial configurations. The co-evolutionary nature of the urban ecosystem. Chapter 6. Social justice in spatial planning: which contribution of bioregionalism? -- Part II: Fields for (re)framing planning in bioregional sense -- Chapter 7. Bioregional Planning and Biophilic urbanism -- Chapter 8. Co-evolutionary recovery of the urban/rural interface: policies, planning and design issues for the urban bioregion -- Chapter 9. Agriurban commons. Which resistance and adaptation processes to metropolization? -- Chapter 10. Rural-urban relations as assemblages: a conceptual framework for urban food policies -- Chapte 11. Looking forward: some opportunities and challenges for bioregional planning in current policies and planning framework -- Chapter 12. Short Glossary