This book’s storyline is simple, yet novel: to celebrate Dr Frank James Costa’s five decades of remarkable urban and regional planning scholarship. This is accomplished by bringing together about 60 scholars from around the world to share their experiences in addressing socio-spatial and spatial–economic issues. The work of Costa connects intrinsically to the roots of urban and regional planning practice and education in the United States, as the editors’ debate in chapter 2. Leo Jacobson, Costa’s doctoral advisor, was the lead behind several experimental learning processes in which students took a major responsibility in steering their own education trajectory.
Da Silva Oliveira, E. H. (2020). Book review: Urban and Regional Planning and Development - 20th Century Forms and 21st Century Transformations. Regional Studies, 01-02. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1802860 (Original work published 2020)