Introducing planning / Clara Greed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greed, Clara, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Physical Description:

xi, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S., Canada, and South America by Transaction Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

Introducing Planning presents the student reader with the broadest overview of planning available today. The new edition of this best-selling textbook (previously called Introducing Town Planning) has been entirely updated, as well as considerably revised and restructured. New material on the environment, Europe, social issues, the politics and theories behind planning, as well as a wealth of new illustrative material have all been included. The reader is taken through the structures of planning, the development process, the history of Planning, the main contemporary issues as well as the social, political and theoretical dimensions of Planning. A wide range of illustrations, boxed case material, chapter guides to further reading and questions for revision and further analysis, as well as an extensive bibliography are all provided.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-269) and indexes.

ISBN:

048500612X

OCLC:

43919797