Title:
Contemporary urban planning
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Edition:
9th ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : Longman, c2011.
Physical Description:
viii, 440 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780205781591
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Summary
Summary
Updated in a new 9th edition , Contemporary Urban Planning provides readers with in-depth coverage of the historic, economic, political, legal, and environmental factors affecting urban planning.
Table of Contents
Part 1 The Background and Development of Contemporary Planning | |
1 An Overview | p. 1 |
The Need for Planning | p. 1 |
The Specific Concerns of Planning | p. 3 |
Who Are the Planners? | p. 4 |
Professional Organizations | p. 5 |
Satisfactions and Discontents | p. 6 |
Useful Abilities | p. 7 |
The Plan of This Book | p. 7 |
Note | p. 8 |
2 The Urbanization of America | p. 9 |
Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century | p. 9 |
Urban Trends in the Twentieth Century | p. 15 |
Summary | p. 26 |
Notes | p. 27 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 28 |
3 The History of Planning: Part I | p. 29 |
Colonial America | p. 30 |
Limited Means and Growing Problems | p. 32 |
The Pressure for Reform | p. 33 |
The Birth of Modern City Planning | p. 40 |
The Public Control of Private Property | p. 42 |
The Emergence of Regional and State Planning | p. 47 |
Grander Visions | p. 50 |
Summary | p. 53 |
Notes | p. 54 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 55 |
4 The History of Planning: Part II | p. 56 |
Planning and the Great Depression | p. 57 |
The Postwar Period | p. 60 |
Summary | p. 68 |
Notes | p. 69 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 69 |
Part 2 The Structure and Practice of Contemporary Planning | |
5 The Legal Basis of Planning | p. 70 |
The Constitutional Framework | p. 70 |
Public Control over Private Property | p. 72 |
The Rights of Nonresidents | p. 81 |
The Fight over Eminent Domain | p. 84 |
State-Enabling Legislation | p. 86 |
The Federal Role | p. 88 |
Summary | p. 91 |
Notes | p. 91 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 92 |
6 Planning and Politics | p. 93 |
Why Is Planning Political? | p. 93 |
Planners and Power | p. 95 |
The Fragmentation of Power | p. 96 |
Styles of Planning | p. 99 |
How Planning Agencies Are Organized | p. 101 |
Summary | p. 105 |
Notes | p. 105 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 106 |
7 The Social Issues | p. 107 |
The Social Issues in Planning for Housing | p. 108 |
Other Issues | p. 117 |
Who Does Social Planning? | p. 120 |
Summary | p. 120 |
Notes | p. 121 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 122 |
8 The Comprehensive Plan | p. 123 |
The Goals of Comprehensive Planning | p. 123 |
The Comprehensive Planning Process | p. 125 |
How Effective Are Comprehensive Plans? | p. 132 |
Summary | p. 133 |
Notes | p. 134 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 135 |
9 The Tools of Land-Use Planning | p. 136 |
Public Capital Investment | p. 136 |
Land-Use Controls | p. 139 |
Making Zoning More Flexible | p. 149 |
Form-Based Zoning | p. 160 |
Other Types of Local Land-Use Controls | p. 163 |
Combining Capital Investment and Land-Use Controls | p. 165 |
Forces Beyond Local Control | p. 166 |
Summary | p. 168 |
Notes | p. 169 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 171 |
Part 3 Fields of Planning | |
10 Urban Design | p. 172 |
What Is Urban Design? | p. 174 |
The Urban Design Process | p. 181 |
What Is Good Urban Design? | p. 183 |
Replanning Suburbia: The Neotraditionalists | p. 189 |
Edge City | p. 195 |
Visions of the City of the Future | p. 199 |
Coming to Terms with the Automobile | p. 203 |
Summary | p. 204 |
Notes | p. 205 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 205 |
11 Urban Renewal and Community Development | p. 207 |
Urban Renewal | p. 208 |
Community Development | p. 216 |
The Housing Question | p. 220 |
Planning for Housing | p. 222 |
The Housing Bubble and the Problem of Abandonment | p. 225 |
Summary | p. 230 |
Notes | p. 231 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 233 |
12 Transportation Planning | p. 234 |
Recent Trends in Urban Transportation | p. 234 |
Paying for Transportation | p. 238 |
Transportation Planning and Land Use | p. 239 |
The Transportation Planning Process | p. 241 |
Changes in the Federal Role | p. 249 |
Fine-Tuning the System | p. 250 |
The Growing Role of Tolls and Privatization | p. 252 |
Smart Highways, Intelligent Vehicles, and New Machines | p. 254 |
Summary | p. 256 |
Notes | p. 257 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 258 |
13 Economic Development Planning | p. 259 |
Historic Roots | p. 260 |
Perspectives on Local Economic Development | p. 261 |
State Economic Development Efforts | p. 264 |
Local Economic Development Programs | p. 265 |
Summary | p. 273 |
Notes | p. 274 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 275 |
14 Growth Management, Smart Growth, and Sustainable Development | p. 276 |
The Origins of Growth Management | p. 277 |
Winners and Losers in Growth Management | p. 279 |
A Sampling of Local Growth Management Programs | p. 281 |
State-Level Growth Management | p. 284 |
Growth Management-Pro or Con? | p. 289 |
The Challenge of Smart Growth | p. 290 |
Planning for Sustainability | p. 293 |
Summary | p. 299 |
Notes | p. 300 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 302 |
15 Environmental and Energy Planning | p. 303 |
The Environmental Planning Problem | p. 303 |
Environmental Progress at the National Level | p. 304 |
The Question of Global Climate Change | p. 305 |
Environmental Policy During the Bush and Obama Adrninistrarion | p. 309 |
The Intergovernment Context of Environmental Planning | p. 311 |
Economic and Political Issues in Environmental Planning | p. 316 |
Local Environmental Planning | p. 320 |
An Example of Environmental Planning | p. 323 |
Energy Planning | p. 326 |
Summary | p. 331 |
Notes | p. 332 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 333 |
6 Planning for Metropolitan Regions | p. 334 |
The Political Problem | p. 334 |
A Brief History of Metropolitan-Area Planning | p. 336 |
Minneapolis-St Paul: A Tale of Two Cities | p. 340 |
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | p. 342 |
The Atlanta Regional Commission | p. 348 |
Summary | p. 350 |
Notes | p. 351 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 352 |
Part 4 Larger Questions | |
17 National Planning in the United States | p. 353 |
Is There National Planning in the United States? | p. 353 |
The Pattern of Land Settlement | p. 354 |
Establishing the Rail Network | p. 355 |
Water and the West | p. 357 |
Systematic Regional Planning | p. 361 |
The Interstate Highway System | p. 363 |
Financing the Suburbs | p. 366 |
Land Management | p. 369 |
What's Next? | p. 370 |
Summary | p. 371 |
Notes | p. 371 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 372 |
18 Planning in Other Nations | p. 373 |
Planning in Western Europe | p. 373 |
Planning in Eastern Europe | p. 400 |
Planning in the Third World | p. 406 |
A Look Ahead | p. 411 |
Summary | p. 412 |
Notes | p. 413 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 415 |
19 Planning Theory | p. 416 |
Is Theory Necessary? | p. 416 |
A Distinction Between Public and Private Planning | p. 417 |
The Process of Planning | p. 418 |
Advocacy Planning | p. 425 |
Planning from Right and Left | p. 426 |
Summary | p. 433 |
Notes | p. 434 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 435 |
Index | p. 436 |