London: Planning the ungovernable city

Divided city: the crisis of London

In an article written in 2000 I posed what I called ‘the Multicultural question’. It runs something like this: What are the chances that we can construct in our cities shared, diverse, just, and egalitarian forms of common life, guaranteeing the full rights of democratic citizenship and participation to all on the basis of equality, whilst respecting the differences which inevitably come about ...

February 2006 City Design - a New Planning Paradigm ? Philipp Rode Cities Programme London School of Economics

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...

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...

New City-Regional Governance in London: Redefining the Relationship between City and Region

Current academic discussions on economic development make a case for 'regional governance' in city-regions and stress the importance of 'appropriate' institutional and policy-making frameworks for effective, 'joined-up' government bringing together the interests of cities and their regional hinterlands. In England, as part of devolutionary processes, regions have experienced a resurgence in pol...