Contemporary Urban Planning

by Levy, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780136025450
• ISBN10: 0136025455
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Background and Development of Contemporary Planning
An Overview	p. 1
The Need for Planning	p. 1
The Specific Concerns of Planning	p. 3
Who Are the Planners?	p. 4
Professional Organizations	p. 5
Satisfactions and Discontents	p. 6
Useful Abilities	p. 7
The Plan of This Book	p. 7
Note	p. 8
The Urbanization of America	p. 9
Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century	p. 9
Urban Trends in the Twentieth Century	p. 16
A Look Ahead	p. 26
Summary	p. 28
Notes	p. 29
Selected Bibliography	p. 30
The History of Planning: Part I	p. 31
Colonial America	p. 32
Limited Means and Growing Problems	p. 34
The Pressure for Reform	p. 35
The Birth of Modern City Planning	p. 42
The Public Control of Private Property	p. 44
The Emergence of Regional and State Planning	p. 49
Grander Visions	p. 52
Summary	p. 55
Notes	p. 56
Selected Bibliography	p. 57
The History of Planning: Part II	p. 58
Planning and the Great Depression	p. 59
The Postwar Period	p. 61
Summary	p. 70
Notes	p. 71
Selected Bibliography	p. 71
The Structure and Practice of Contemporary Planning
The Legal Basis of Planning	p. 72
The Constitutional Framework	p. 72
Public Control over Private Property	p. 74
The Fight over Eminent Domain	p. 85
State-Enabling Legislation	p. 87
The Federal Role	p. 89
Summary	p. 91
Notes	p. 92
Selected Bibliography	p. 92
Planning and Politics	p. 93
Why Is Planning Political?	p. 93
Planners and Power	p. 95
The Fragmentation of Power	p. 96
Styles of Planning	p. 99
How Planning Agencies Are Organized	p. 102
Summary	p. 105
Notes	p. 106
Selected Bibliography	p. 106
The Social Issues	p. 108
The Social Issues in Planning for Housing	p. 109
Other Issues	p. 118
Who Does Social Planning?	p. 122
Summary	p. 122
Notes	p. 122
Selected Bibliography	p. 123
The Comprehensive Plan	p. 124
The Goals of Comprehensive Planning	p. 124
The Comprehensive Planning Process	p. 126
How Effective Are Comprehensive Plans?	p. 133
Summary	p. 134
Notes	p. 135
Selected Bibliography	p. 136
The Tools of Land-Use Planning	p. 137
Public Capital Investment	p. 137
Land-Use Controls	p. 140
Combining Capital Investment and Land-Use Controls	p. 164
Forces Beyond Local Control	p. 166
Summary	p. 168
Notes	p. 168
Selected Bibliography	p. 170
Fields of Planning
Urban Design	p. 171
What Is Urban Design?	p. 173
The Urban Design Process	p. 180
What Is Good Urban Design?	p. 182
Replanning Suburbia: The Neotraditionalists	p. 188
Edge City	p. 193
Visions of the City of the Future	p. 197
Coming to Terms with the Automobile	p. 200
Summary	p. 201
Notes	p. 202
Selected Bibliography	p. 203
Urban Renewal and Community Development	p. 204
Urban Renewal	p. 205
Community Development	p. 213
The Housing Question	p. 217
Planning for Housing	p. 219
Summary	p. 222
Notes	p. 223
Selected Bibliography	p. 224
Transportation Planning	p. 225
Recent Trends in Urban Transportation	p. 225
Paying for Transportation	p. 227
Transportation Planning and Land Use	p. 228
The Transportation Planning Process	p. 230
Changes in the Federal Role	p. 238
Fine-Tuning the System	p. 239
The Growing Role of Tolls and Privatization	p. 240
Smart Highways, Intelligent Vehicles, and New Machines	p. 243
Summary	p. 245
Notes	p. 246
Selected Bibliography	p. 247
Economic Development Planning	p. 248
Historic Roots	p. 249
Perspectives on Local Economic Development	p. 250
State Economic Development Efforts	p. 254
Local Economic Development Programs	p. 257
Summary	p. 264
Notes	p. 264
Selected Bibliography	p. 265
Growth Management, Smart Growth, and Sustainable Development	p. 266
The Origins of Growth Management	p. 267
Winners and Losers in Growth Management	p. 269
A Sampling of Local Growth Management Programs	p. 271
State-Level Growth Management	p. 274
Growth Management-Pro or Con?	p. 278
The Challenge of Smart Growth	p. 279
Planning for Sustainability	p. 282
Summary	p. 286
Notes	p. 289
Selected Bibliography	p. 290
Environmental and Energy Planning	p. 291
The Environmental Planning Problem	p. 291
Environmental Progress at the National Level	p. 292
The Question of Global Climate Change	p. 293
The Intergovernment Context of Environmental Planning	p. 301
Economic and Political Issues in Environmental Planning	p. 306
Local Environmental Planning	p. 310
An Example of Environmental Planning	p. 313
Energy Planning	p. 316
Summary	p. 319
Notes	p. 320
Selected Bibliography	p. 321
Planning for Metropolitan Regions	p. 322
The Political Problem	p. 322
A Brief History of Metropolitan Area Planning	p. 324
Minneapolis-St. Paul: A Tale of Two Cities	p. 328
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey	p. 331
The Atlanta Regional Commission	p. 336
Summary	p. 339
Notes	p. 339
Selected Bibliography	p. 340
Larger Questions
National Planning in the United States	p. 341
Is There National Planning in the United States?	p. 341
The Pattern of Land Settlement	p. 342
Establishing the Rail Network	p. 343
Water and the West	p. 345
Systematic Regional Planning	p. 349
The Interstate Highway System	p. 351
Financing the Suburbs	p. 355
Land Management	p. 357
Summary	p. 359
Notes	p. 359
Selected Bibliography	p. 360
Planning in Other Nations	p. 361
Planning in Western Europe	p. 361
Planning in Eastern Europe	p. 387
Planning in the Third World	p. 393
A Look Ahead	p. 397
Summary	p. 399
Notes	p. 400
Selected Bibliography	p. 401
Planning Theory	p. 402
Is Theory Necessary?	p. 402
A Distinction Between Public and Private Planning	p. 403
The Process of Planning	p. 404
Advocacy Planning	p. 411
Planning from Right and Left	p. 412
Summary	p. 419
Notes	p. 420
Selected Bibliography	p. 421
Illustration Credits	p. 422
Index	p. 423
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