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Readings in Planning Theory

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Informationen zum Autor Scott Campbell is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Doctoral Program Director in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He is a co-author of The Rise of the Gunbelt: The Military Remapping of Industrial America. His article on sustainable development won an award for best article of the year from the Journal of the American Planning Association. Susan S. Fainstein is a Professor in the Urban Planning Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her books include The Just City (2010), The City Builders (second edition, 2001), and Restructuring the City (1986). Fainstein is also a recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) for lifetime career achievement. Klappentext The third edition of Readings in Planning Theory features thirteen new readings that define current debates and presents the works that constitute the main focus of the field, addressing the central issues that face planners as theorists and practitioners.* Expands the focus on international planning by including globalization and theories of development* Includes new readings that examine themes emerging in planning theory, including a critique of the modernist roots of centralized planning, a re-emphasis on space in planning, and a discussion of the difficulty of sustainable development* Features new case studies of planning success and failure on both sides of the Atlantic* Addresses the range of core planning theory so as to remain the primary text in urban planning courses* Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years* Draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, arguments for and against planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and considerations of race and gender Zusammenfassung The third edition of Readings in Planning Theory features thirteen new readings that define current debates and presents the works that constitute the main focus of the field, addressing the central issues that face planners as theorists and practitioners.* Expands the focus on international planning by including globalization and theories of development* Includes new readings that examine themes emerging in planning theory, including a critique of the modernist roots of centralized planning, a re-emphasis on space in planning, and a discussion of the difficulty of sustainable development* Features new case studies of planning success and failure on both sides of the Atlantic* Addresses the range of core planning theory so as to remain the primary text in urban planning courses* Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years* Draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, arguments for and against planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and considerations of race and gender Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning TheoryI. Foundations of 20th Century Planning TheoryII. Planning: Justifications and CritiquesIII. Planning Types/Normative frameworksIV. Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and StrategiesV. Race, Gender and City PlanningVI. Conflicting PrioritiesVII. Planning in a Globalized World ...

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Authors Scott Campbell, Scott Fainstein Campbell, Fainstein, susan Fainstein, Susan S. Fainstein
Assisted by Scott Campbell (Editor), Susan S. Fainstein (Editor)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.08.2011
 
EAN 9781444330809
ISBN 978-1-4443-3080-9
No. of pages 580
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering

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