Title & Author:

Comparative planning cultures / edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Description:

xxiv, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Papers submitted to a semester-long symposium organized by the editor at MIT in Spring 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-401) and index.
Hybrid planning cultures: and the search for the global cultural commons / Bishwapriya Sanyal -- Planning cultures in an era of transition / John Friedmann -- Space of flows, space of places: materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age / Manuel Castells -- Planning culture in Iran: centralization and decentralization and local governance in the twentieth century (the case for uban management and planning) / Kian Tajbakhsh -- Modernity confronts tradition: the professional planner and local corporatism in the rebuilding of China's cities / Michael Leaf -- Planning cultures in two Chinese transitional cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen / Mee Kam Ng -- Understanding planning cultures: the Kolkata paradox / Tridip Banerjee -- Does planning culture matter? Dutch and American models in Indonesian urban transformations / Robert Cowherd -- Contending planning cultures and the urban built environment in Mexico City / Diane E. Davis -- The developmental state and the extreme narrowness of the public realm: the 20th century evolution of Japanese planning culture / André Soreneon -- The nature of difference: traditions of law and government and their effects on planning in Britain and France / Philip Booth -- The Netherlands: a culture with a soft spot for planning / Andreas Faludi -- Picking the paradoxes: an historical anatomy of Australian planning cultures / Leonie Sandercock -- US planning culture under pressure: major elements endure and flourish in the face of crises / Eugenie L. Birch.

Summary:

"Are there significant variations in the ways planners in different nations have influenced urban, regional, and national development? Do such variations arise from differences in planning cultures, meaning the collective ethos and dominant attitude of planners in different nations towards the appropriate roles of the state, market forces, and civil society? How are such professional cultures formed? Are they indigenous and immutable, or do they evolve with social, political, and economic changes both within and outside the national territories? Specifically, what has been the impact of the intensification of global interconnectedness in trade, capital flows, labor migration, and technological connectivity on national planning cultures? 'Comparative Planning Cultures' addresses these questions, drawing on the planning experience in ten nations and at different territorial levels. The result is an understanding of planning culture that is complex and dynamic-in contrast to traditional notions of culture that evoke a sense of immutability and inheritance of unchanging social attributes of planners. The volume concludes that there is no cultural nucleus or core planning culture, no social gene that can be decoded to reveal the cultural DNA of planning practice of any nation." -- Publisher description.

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ISBN:

0415951348 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415951340 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415951356 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780415951357 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Regional planning Cross-cultural studies.
City planning Cross-cultural studies.
Social policy Cross-cultural studies.
Central planning Cross-cultural studies.
Aménagement du territoire Études transculturelles.
Urbanisme Études transculturelles.
Politique sociale Études transculturelles.
Planification impérative Études transculturelles.
Central planning.
City planning.
Regional planning.
Social policy.
Kulturvergleich
Regionalplanung
Stadtplanung
Ruimtelijke ordening.

Form/genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Added entries:

Sanyal, Bishwapriya.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 240134
Call No.: BIB 170059
Status: Available