The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education

by Nancey Green Leigh (Editor), Steven P French (Editor), Subhrajit Guhathakurta (Editor), Bruce Stiftel (Editor)

The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is the first comprehensive handbook with a unique focus on planning education. Comparing approaches to the delivery of planning education by three major planning education accreditation bodies in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and reflecting concerns from other national planning systems, this handbook will help to meet the strong interest and need for understanding how planning education is developed and delivered in different international contexts.

The handbook is divided into five major sections, including coverage of general planning knowledge, planning skills, traditional and emerging planning specializations, and pedagogy. An international cohort of contributors covers each subject’s role in educating planners, its theory and methods, key literature contributions, and course design.

Higher education’s response to globalization has included growth in planning educational exchanges across international boundaries; The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is an essential resource for planners and planning educators, informing the dialogue on the mobility of planners educated under different national schema

About the Author
Nancey Green Leigh is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research. Steven P. French holds the John Portman Dean's Chair at the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. He is a member of the American Planning Association, and a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Subhrajit Guhathakurta is the Director of Center for Geographic Information Systems and Professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech, and the principal investigator for the Interdisciplinary Center on Technologies to Support for Successful Aging with Disability (RERC TechSAge). He is a co-editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, on the editorial board of the Journal of American Planning Association and on the advisory board of Neighborhood Nexus, the Center for Data Analytics at Georgia Tech, and the Atlanta Regional Commission Bruce Stiftel is the Chair of the School of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. He is a member of the American City Planning Directors Council, the American Institute of Certified Planners, the American Planning Institute, the Association of European Schools of Planning, and is an International Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute