Gavin Parker Bücher

A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practitioners, national and local politicians and policy makers involved in planning, academics and students studying planning and related disciplines. It presents time as a pervasive form of power that is used to shape democratic practices, and questions ‘project speed’: where time to think, deliberate and plan has been squeezed. The authors demonstrate the many benefits of slow planning for the key participants, multiple interests and planning system overall.

Ephialtes is the first book in a trilogy of novels set in the twenty-third century. The massive spacecraft Ephialtes, built to patrol Earth, is refitted for its interplanetary mission to persuade the colonists to reconsider. Can they prevail against the mighty Ephialtes?

Phobos Rising is the second novel in the Ephialtes Trilogy by Gavin E Parker. Five years after the Martian declaration of independence two worlds teeter on the brink of an abyss. The peace delivered in the wake of the Ephialtes incident is more fragile than many suppose...