Title & Author:

Classic readings in urban planning : an introduction / edited by Jay M. Stein.

Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1995.

Description:

xxxi, 592 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Towns, time, and tradition : the legacy of planning in frontier America / John W. Reps -- First urban transformation / Lewis Mumford -- Turbulent eighth decade : challenges to American city planning; Editorials on ... the turbulent eight decade / Peter Hall -- Science of "muddling through" / Charles E. Lindblom -- Advocacy and pluralism in planning / Paul Davidoff -- Justice as fairness / John Rawls -- Planning in the public domain : discourse and praxis / John Friedmann -- Goals of comprehensive planning / Alan Altshuler -- Master plan : an impermanent constitution / Charles M. Haar -- Purpose of zoning / Richard Babcock -- Understanding American land use regulation since 1970 / Frank J. Popper -- Planning the use of land for the 21st century / Harvey M. Jacobs -- Growth management and the integrated roles of state, regional, and local governments / John M. DeGrove and Patricia M. Metzger -- What is the form of a city, and how is it made? / Kevin Lynch -- Social life of the street / William Whyte -- Need for concentration / Jane Jacobs -- Defensible space / Oscar Newman -- Economic growth and development : processes, stages, and determinants / Wilbur R. Thompson -- Development planning as the only game in town / Lisa Peattie, Stephen Cornell, and Martin Rein -- Converting the military industrial economy : the experience at six facilities / Catherine Hill, Sabina Deitrick, and Ann Markusen -- Los Angeles Rebellion : a retrospective view / James H. Johnson, Jr., Cloyzelle K. Jones, Walter C. Farrell, Jr., and Melvin L. Oliver -- Autos, transit, and the sprawl of Los Angeles : the 1920s / Martin Wachs -- Causes of recent increases in traffic congestion / Anthony Downs -- Needed : a Marshall Plan for ourselves / Richard P. Nathan -- Ladder of citizen participation / Sherry R. Arnstein -- Ghetto as a resource for Black America / William W. Goldsmith -- First twenty years of HUD -- Comment : HUD, a study in power and piety / George Sternlieb / Robert C. Weaver -- Looking back / Allen B. Jacobs -- Planning in the face of power / John Forester -- To be professionally effective, be politically articulate / Norman Krumholz and John Forester -- Obligation to endure / Rachel Carson -- Urban nature and human design : renewing the great tradition / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Carrying capacity : a key to environmental planning? / David R. Godschalk and Francis H. Parker -- Planned city / Lisa Peattie -- Housing policies for the urban poor in developing countries / Gill-Chin Lim -- Three crises of American planning / John W. Dyckman -- Four critical junctures in the history of the urban planning profession : an exercise in hindsight / Michael P. Brooks -- Have planners taken their eye off the ball? / Henry G. Cisneros -- Who/what decides what planners do? / Peter Marcuse -- Uses and misuses of history / Michael B. Teitz -- Planning history : what story? what meaning? what future? / Marc A. Weiss -- On ethics, history, and planning practice / Peter Marcuse -- Search for the future inside ourselves / Joel Garreau.

Summary:

This text contains a selection of readings drawn from academic journals focusing on aspects of social policy, transportation, housing, economic development and the environment. This book is intended for use by students in architecture, environmental design and building construction.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0070611386 (alk. paper)
9780070611382 (alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning United States.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
City planning.
Stadsplanning.
United States.
Cities Structure planning

Added entries:

Stein, Jay M.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269246
Call No.: HT167 .C565 1995
Status: Available