The American planning tradition : culture and policy / edited by Robert Fishman.

Title & Author:

The American planning tradition : culture and policy / edited by Robert Fishman.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Centre Press, [2000]
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press

Description:

ix, 328 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The American planning tradition : an introduction and interpretation / Robert Fishman -- Holding the middle ground / John L. Thomas -- The metropolitan tradition in American planning / Robert Fishman -- The quest for national planning : federalism and national planning : the nineteenth-century legacy / Michael J. Lacey -- "Watersheds" in regional planning / James L. Wescoat -- The National Resources Planning Board and the reconstruction of planning / Alan Brinkley -- Planning environmentalism, and urban poverty : the political failure of national land-use planning legislation / Margaret Weir -- Recreating the "commons" : the local experience : race and renewal in the cold war south : New Orleans, 1947-68 / Arnold R. Hirsch -- The capital of good planning : metropolitan Portland since 1970 / Carl Abbott.

Summary:

Today with everything urban and public perpetually in crisis, we turn towards the figures who shaped our cities and left a legacy of public spaces. This work reevaluates those planners and their times in a series of essays.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0943875951 (hard ; alk. paper)
9780943875958 (hard ; alk. paper)
094387596X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780943875965 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning United States.
Land use, Urban United States.
Land use United States Planning.
Urban renewal United States.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
Utilisation urbaine du sol États-Unis.
Utilisation du sol États-Unis Planification.
Rénovation urbaine États-Unis.
City planning
Land use Planning
Land use, Urban
Urban renewal
Bodennutzung
Kultur
Landesplanung
Stadt
Stadtplanung
Ruimtelijke ordening.
Planning United States.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Fishman, Robert, 1946- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212065
Call No.: NA9105.A6 2000
Copy: c. 1
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

Location: Library main 239463
Call No.: NA9105.A6 2000
Copy: c. 2
Notes: paperback
Status: Available

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