Michael Neuman is Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Westminster and Principal of the Michael Neuman Consultancy. He is the multi-award-winning author of numerous books, articles, chapters, reports, and plans that have been translated into ten languages. His research and practice span urbanism, planning, design, engineering, sustainability, infrastructure, and governance. He has advised mayors in Europe, the United States, and Australia, the Regional Plan Association of New York, the Barcelona Metropolitan Plan, and other governments and private clients around the world.

Wil Zonneveld is Full Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. The subject of his 1991 PhD thesis was the conceptualization of space and territory in Dutch regional and national planning. This subject has been addressed many times since then, extending analyses to include transnational and European levels of scale, with a strong emphasis on visualization and connections with governance capacity.

Part I: Intellectual Underpinnings and Practices

Introduction: The Resurgence of Regional Design

Chapter 1. The Emergence of Regional Design: Recovering a Great Landscape Architecture and Planning Tradition

Chapter [...]opean History and Traditions: Revisiting the European Spatial Development Perspective

Chapter 3. The Ecological Underpinnings of Regional Design

Chapter 4. Contemporary Regional Design Theory

Part II: City Region Case Studies

Chapter 5. Urban Policies and Strategies for Balanced Regional Development in Korea

Chapter 6. Japan's Linear Megalopolis: Shinkansen High-speed Rail as the Spine of a 60-year Mega-region Evolution

Chapter 7. Germany's 'European Metropolitan Regions'

Chapter 8. Can Megalopolis Continue To Thrive? A Profile of the US Northeast Megaregion and Its Prospects

Chapter 9. The Texas Urban Triangle Megaregion

Chapter 10. Designing the New York Metropolitan Region

Chapter 11. The Santiago de Chile Metropolitan System: Transformative Tensions and Contradictions Shaping Spatial Planning

Chapter 12. Nairobi

Chapter 13. Design and Governance for the Barcelona City Region

Chapter 14. Regional Planning and Regional Design in Greater Paris

Chapter 15. Sydney: Evolution Towards a Tri-city Metropolitan Region and Beyond

Chapter 16. Who Designed Los Angeles? Nature, Profit, Policy, People

Part III: Hydraulic, Ecological, and Bioregional Design Case Studies

Chapter 17. The Dutch Deltametropolis

Chapter 18. The Regional Design of Green Infrastructure in the Pearl River Delta

Chapter 19. Regional Design Stepping into the Sea

Chapter 20. Bioregional Design: The Design Science of the Future

Part IV: Education, Management, and Governance

Chapter 21. Interdisciplinary Pedagogies for Regional Development Challenges: The Re-coupling of Planning, Design and the Social Sciences

Chapter 22. Imagining the Region

Chapter 23. Mapping for Regions

Chapter 24. The Complex Ecology of the City-Region

Chapter 25. The Futures of Regional Design