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9780631223474

Readings in Planning Theory, 2nd Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780631223474

  • ISBN10:

    0631223479

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-01-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. 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. Theoretical perspectives include political economy, postmodernism, communicative rationality, and feminism. Readings new to this edition examine themes emerging in planning theory, including a critique of the modernist roots of centralized planning, a reemphasis on space in planning, and a discussion of the difficulty of sustainable development. Features new case studies of planning success and failure in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Contains thirteen wholly new readings.

Author Biography

Scott Campbell is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. His research has focused on defense-industrial cities, regional and environmental planning, and German cities. He is co-author of The Rise of the Gunbelt (with Ann Markusen, Peter Hall, and Sabina Deitrick) and of a forthcoming book on Berlin and is co-editor of Readings in Urban Theory, Second Edition (co-edited with Susan S. Fainstein, Blackwell, 2002).

Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University. Her research has focused on planning theory, comparative public policy, urban redevelopment, and citizen participation. Among her books are Urban Political Movements, Restructuring the City, The City Builders (second edition 2001), Divided Cities (co-edited with Ian Gordon and Michael Harloe; Blackwell, 1992), and Cities and Visitors (co-edited with Lily M. Hoffman and Dennis R. Judd; Blackwell 2003).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory 1(18)
Scott Campbell
Susan S. Fainstein
Part I Foundations of Twentieth-Century Planning Theory
Introduction
19(2)
Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier
21(40)
Robert Fishman
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
61(14)
Jane Jacobs
Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning
75(11)
John Friedmann
Part II Planning: Justifications and Critiques
Introduction
83(3)
Arguments For and Against Planning
86(16)
Richard E. Klosterman
Planning the Capitalist City
102(6)
Richard E. Foglesong
Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U.S. Planning
108(17)
Robert A. Beauregard
Authoritarian High Modernism
125(17)
James C. Scott
Making Space: Planning as a Mode of Thought
142(31)
David C. Perry
Part III Planning Types
Introduction
169(4)
New Directions in Planning Theory
173(23)
Susan S. Fainstein
The Science of ``Muddling Through''
196(14)
Charles E. Lindblom
Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning
210(14)
Paul Davidoff
Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development
224(13)
Norman Krumholz
The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation
237(25)
Patsy Healey
Part IV Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies
Introduction
259(3)
What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases
262(13)
John M. Levy
Community and Consensus: Reality and Fantasy in Planning
275(21)
Howell S. Baum
Popular Planning: Coin Street, London
296(22)
Tim Brindley
Yvonne Rydin
Gerry Stoker
Rationality and Power
318(18)
Bent Flyvbjerg
Part V Race, Gender, and City Planning
Introduction
333(3)
City Life and Difference
336(20)
Iris Marion Young
Educating Planners: Unified Diversity for Social Action
356(20)
June Manning Thomas
Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie
376(25)
Dolores Hayden
Towards Cosmopolis: Utopia as Construction Site
401(12)
Leonie Sandercock
Part VI Ethics, the Environment, and Conflicting Priorities
Introduction
411(2)
APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories
413(5)
William H. Lucy
Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation
418(17)
Frank Fischer
Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development
435(24)
Scott Campbell
Index 459

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