Vol. 30 No. 2 (2019)

There has been high demand for planning and design services at various scales in Chinese cities. International urban planning and design (UPD) firms have taken some of these opportunities. Despite the direct relevance of UPD industries for urbanisation and the important role of international UPD firms, little attention has been paid to their spatial and operational strategies. What are the drivers for international UPD firms appearing in China? What role have they played in China

This paper addresses the implications of infrastructure development for regional food security. The development of the Trans-Java toll road threatens food security in Indonesia, especially in the northern part of Java, the largest producer of rice paddy in the country. This development can raise land prices near the toll road, particularly near the toll gates, which tends to encourage farmers to sell their farmland. Thus, farmland will likely be converted to non-agricultural uses. The farmers’ decisions have a major influence on food security, related not only to a decline in productive…

This article aimed to explore an effective communicative planning approach in infrastructure development using the PPP scheme, incorporating the complementary concepts of communicative planning and critical pragmatism. From 2005 to 2007, an epidemic disease severely threatened the District of Tangerang, which was found to be caused by poor water quality and improper clean water management. The limited local government budget and capability was a double issue that encouraged the participation of the private sector in building a drinking water infrastructure by using a public private…

Issues of inclusiveness are prominent today in both urban theory and in international urban development policy. Within the academy over the past decade, an influential strand of scholarship has sought to decentre urban theory from a relatively small and canonical set of cities, mostly in Western Europe and North America. This postcolonial urban studies work has argued that there is a need for