Ian McHarg on City Planning

City health development planning.

The objective of this evaluation was to review the evolution and process of city health development planning (CHDP) in municipalities participating in the Healthy Cities Network organized by the European Region of the World Health Organization. The concept of CHDP combines elements from three theoretical domains: (a) health development, (b) city governance and (c) urban planning. The setting wa...

Reflecting on Dr. Ian McWhinney.

I am of an age now that the first section of the newspaper I turn to in the morning is the obituaries. On October 1, I read with great sadness of the death of Ian McWhinney on September 28. I only met Dr McWhinney twice, although his writing has been a touchstone for me in my career as a family doctor. The first time I met him was about a decade ago when he gave a talk to a group of colleagues ...

Planning and the Industrial City

ON OC TOBE R 25, 1945, Pennsylvania governor Edward Martin announced that the state legislature had officially authorized the creation of a state park in the city of Pittsburgh, at the “Point,” the historic confluence of the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela rivers. In less than a month, Pittsburgh’s political and business leadership, led by the city’s banking tycoon and civic luminary Richard K...

Strategic planning for city networks

Throughout Europe, policy‐makers are developing policies to foster the spatial, economic and social development of what is, in the literature, often termed 'polycentric urban regions': a regional cluster of close‐by cities. It is assumed that taking a set of relatively small or medium‐ sized cities together opens up possibilities for regional economic growth. In this paper we put forward that t...

CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING 870.03 Notes on Spatial Econometric Models