Contemporary Urban Planning

by Levy, John M.

• ISBN13: 9780205781591
• ISBN10: 0205781594
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Updated in a new 9th edition, Contemporary Urban Planning provides readers with in-depth coverage of the historic, economic, political, legal, and environmental factors affecting urban planning.

Reflecting the author's many years' experience as a working planner, this text focuses on public planning at the substrate level -- that which is done by and for cities, counties, towns, and other units of local governments -- and examines much more briefly planning for metropolitan regions, the states, and the question of national planning. Throughout, it emphasizes politics, economics, ideology, law, and the question of who benefits and who loses by particular decisions.

With updated coverage of the Obama administration’s response to the 2009 economic downturn, Levy also addresses the most pressing issues in urban development today - including the subprime mortgage crisis and home foreclosures, federal funding for public transportation, and new standards for “green” buildings.

Table of Contents

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. 15
Summary	p. 26
Notes	p. 27
Selected Bibliography	p. 28
The History of Planning: Part I	p. 29
Colonial America	p. 30
Limited Means and Growing Problems	p. 32
The Pressure for Reform	p. 33
The Birth of Modern City Planning	p. 40
The Public Control of Private Property	p. 42
The Emergence of Regional and State Planning	p. 47
Grander Visions	p. 50
Summary	p. 53
Notes	p. 54
Selected Bibliography	p. 55
The History of Planning: Part II	p. 56
Planning and the Great Depression	p. 57
The Postwar Period	p. 60
Summary	p. 68
Notes	p. 69
Selected Bibliography	p. 69
The Structure and Practice of Contemporary Planning
The Legal Basis of Planning	p. 70
The Constitutional Framework	p. 70
Public Control over Private Property	p. 72
The Rights of Nonresidents	p. 81
The Fight over Eminent Domain	p. 84
State-Enabling Legislation	p. 86
The Federal Role	p. 88
Summary	p. 91
Notes	p. 91
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. 101
Summary	p. 105
Notes	p. 105
Selected Bibliography	p. 106
The Social Issues	p. 107
The Social Issues in Planning for Housing	p. 108
Other Issues	p. 117
Who Does Social Planning?	p. 120
Summary	p. 120
Notes	p. 121
Selected Bibliography	p. 122
The Comprehensive Plan	p. 123
The Goals of Comprehensive Planning	p. 123
The Comprehensive Planning Process	p. 125
How Effective Are Comprehensive Plans?	p. 132
Summary	p. 133
Notes	p. 134
Selected Bibliography	p. 135
The Tools of Land-Use Planning	p. 136
Public Capital Investment	p. 136
Land-Use Controls	p. 139
Making Zoning More Flexible	p. 149
Form-Based Zoning	p. 160
Other Types of Local Land-Use Controls	p. 163
Combining Capital Investment and Land-Use Controls	p. 165
Forces Beyond Local Control	p. 166
Summary	p. 168
Notes	p. 169
Selected Bibliography	p. 171
Fields of Planning
Urban Design	p. 172
What Is Urban Design?	p. 174
The Urban Design Process	p. 181
What Is Good Urban Design?	p. 183
Replanning Suburbia: The Neotraditionalists	p. 189
Edge City	p. 195
Visions of the City of the Future	p. 199
Coming to Terms with the Automobile	p. 203
Summary	p. 204
Notes	p. 205
Selected Bibliography	p. 205
Urban Renewal and Community Development	p. 207
Urban Renewal	p. 208
Community Development	p. 216
The Housing Question	p. 220
Planning for Housing	p. 222
The Housing Bubble and the Problem of Abandonment	p. 225
Summary	p. 230
Notes	p. 231
Selected Bibliography	p. 233
Transportation Planning	p. 234
Recent Trends in Urban Transportation	p. 234
Paying for Transportation	p. 238
Transportation Planning and Land Use	p. 239
The Transportation Planning Process	p. 241
Changes in the Federal Role	p. 249
Fine-Tuning the System	p. 250
The Growing Role of Tolls and Privatization	p. 252
Smart Highways, Intelligent Vehicles, and New Machines	p. 254
Summary	p. 256
Notes	p. 257
Selected Bibliography	p. 258
Economic Development Planning	p. 259
Historic Roots	p. 260
Perspectives on Local Economic Development	p. 261
State Economic Development Efforts	p. 264
Local Economic Development Programs	p. 265
Summary	p. 273
Notes	p. 274
Selected Bibliography	p. 275
Growth Management, Smart Growth, and Sustainable Development	p. 276
The Origins of Growth Management	p. 277
Winners and Losers in Growth Management	p. 279
A Sampling of Local Growth Management Programs	p. 281
State-Level Growth Management	p. 284
Growth Management-Pro or Con?	p. 289
The Challenge of Smart Growth	p. 290
Planning for Sustainability	p. 293
Summary	p. 299
Notes	p. 300
Selected Bibliography	p. 302
Environmental and Energy Planning	p. 303
The Environmental Planning Problem	p. 303
Environmental Progress at the National Level	p. 304
The Question of Global Climate Change	p. 305
Environmental Policy During the Bush and Obama Adrninistrarion	p. 309
The Intergovernment Context of Environmental Planning	p. 311
Economic and Political Issues in Environmental Planning	p. 316
Local Environmental Planning	p. 320
An Example of Environmental Planning	p. 323
Energy Planning	p. 326
Summary	p. 331
Notes	p. 332
Selected Bibliography	p. 333
Planning for Metropolitan Regions	p. 334
The Political Problem	p. 334
A Brief History of Metropolitan-Area Planning	p. 336
Minneapolis-St Paul: A Tale of Two Cities	p. 340
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey	p. 342
The Atlanta Regional Commission	p. 348
Summary	p. 350
Notes	p. 351
Selected Bibliography	p. 352
Larger Questions
National Planning in the United States	p. 353
Is There National Planning in the United States?	p. 353
The Pattern of Land Settlement	p. 354
Establishing the Rail Network	p. 355
Water and the West	p. 357
Systematic Regional Planning	p. 361
The Interstate Highway System	p. 363
Financing the Suburbs	p. 366
Land Management	p. 369
What's Next?	p. 370
Summary	p. 371
Notes	p. 371
Selected Bibliography	p. 372
Planning in Other Nations	p. 373
Planning in Western Europe	p. 373
Planning in Eastern Europe	p. 400
Planning in the Third World	p. 406
A Look Ahead	p. 411
Summary	p. 412
Notes	p. 413
Selected Bibliography	p. 415
Planning Theory	p. 416
Is Theory Necessary?	p. 416
A Distinction Between Public and Private Planning	p. 417
The Process of Planning	p. 418
Advocacy Planning	p. 425
Planning from Right and Left	p. 426
Summary	p. 433
Notes	p. 434
Selected Bibliography	p. 435
Index	p. 436
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