Planning in a more Globalized and Competitive World

Planning in a more Globalized and Competitive World, contains some of the main findings, the considerations and the proposals put forward by many highly qualified expert urbanists and planners on socio-economic and cultural implications of globalization on urban culture. The book offers a further and deeper contribution, in the perspective of contemporaryworldwide plural planning culture, to the impacts of globalization on cities presenting a selection of papers among the noteworthy material which was submitted during the International Planning Congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISoCaRP) held in Cairo in association with the Faculty of Urban and Regional Planning (FURP) of Cairo University (Egypt).

Paolo La Greca is professor of urban and regional planning at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Catania (Italy) and deputy director of Department of Architecture and Town Planning.