Readings in planning theory / edited by Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Scott, 1958-

Fainstein, Susan S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Physical Description:

x, 475 pages : map ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory / Scott Campbell, Susan S. Fainstein 1

Part I Foundations of Twentieth-Century Planning Theory

1 Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier / Robert Fishman 21

2 The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs 61

3 Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning / John Friedmann 75

Part II Planning: Justifications and Critiques

4 Arguments For and Against Planning / Richard E. Klosterman 86

5 Planning the Capitalist City / Richard E. Foglesong 102

6 Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U.S. Planning / Robert A. Beauregard 108

7 Authoritarian High Modernism / James C. Scott 125

8 Making Space: Planning as a Mode of Thought / David C. Perry 142

Part III Planning Types

9 New Directions in Planning Theory / Susan S. Fainstein 173

10 The Science of "Muddling Through" / Charles E. Lindblom 196

11 Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning / Paul Davidoff 210

12 Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development / Norman Krumholz 224

13 The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation / Patsy Healey 237

Part IV Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies

14 What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases / John M. Levy 262

15 Community and Consensus: Reality and Fantasy in Planning / Howell S. Baum 275

16 Popular Planning: Coin Street, London / Tim Brindley, Yvonne Rydin, Gerry Stoker 296

17 Rationality and Power / Bent Flyvbjerg 318

Part V Race, Gender, and City Planning

18 City Life and Difference / Iris Marion Young 336

19 Educating Planners: Unified Diversity for Social Action / June Manning Thomas 356

20 Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie / Dolores Hayden 376

21 Towards Cosmopolis: Utopia as Construction Site / Leonie Sandercock 401

Part VI Ethics, the Environment, and Conflicting Priorities

22 APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories / William H. Lucy 413

23 Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation / Frank Fischer 418

24 Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development / Scott Campbell 435.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631223460

0631223479

OCLC:

49679316