Planning the good community : new urbanism in theory and practice / Jill Grant.

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Grant, Jill.

Title & Author:

Planning the good community : new urbanism in theory and practice / Jill Grant.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Description:

xxv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

The RTPI library series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index.
New urbanism(s) ascendant -- Getting to (sub)urbanism -- Theory in new urbanism -- New urbanism is born : the American experience -- Revamping urbanism : the European experience -- Modernizing urbanism : new urban Asia -- Colonial urbanism : Canada signs on -- Reconciling new urbanism's theory and practice -- The fate of new urbanism.

Summary:

"This book examines new urban approaches both in theory and practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism lives up to its theory in its practice, it asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to the good community." "With examples drawn principally from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, Belgium, Norway, and Japan, this book explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It considers the relationship between the movements for urban villages and an urban renaissance that has spread in the UK and Europe with the 'New Urbanism' movement in the United States and Canada and asks whether the concerns that drive contemporary planning theory - issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns, and globalization - receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. Does new urbanism offer a persuasive normative theory of urban development that will shape planning practice for years to come, or a design paradigm that cannot transcend its cultural origins in a particular time and place?"--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0415700744 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415700740 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415700752 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415700757 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415700740
9780415700757
9780203479469
0203479467

Subject:

City planning.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns Growth.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes Croissance.
urban sociology.
urban planning.
Aménagement urbain.
Villes.
Etudes de cas.

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RTPI library series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249749
Call No.: BIB 179324
Status: Available

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