Planning ideas that matter : livability, territoriality, governance, and reflective practice / edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal, Lawrence J. Vale, and Christina D. Rosan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sanyal, Bishwapriya.

Vale, Lawrence J., 1959-

Rosan, Christina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Social aspects.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (433 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading theorists and practitioners trace the evolution of key ideas in urban and regional planning over the last hundred years.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Four Planning Conversations; I Ideas about Livability; 2 Shaping Urban Form; 3 New Urbanism; 4 Sustainability in Planning: The Arc and Trajectory of a Movement, and New Directions for the Twenty-First-Century City; II Ideas about Territoriality; 5 Regional Development Planning; 6 Metropolitanism: How Metropolitan Planning Has Been Shaped by and Reflected in the Plans of the Regional Plan Association; 7 Territorial Competitiveness: Lineages, Practices, Ideologies; III Ideas about Governance; 8 Urban Development

9 Public-Private Engagement: Promise and Practice10 Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea; 11 Self-Help Housing Ideas and Practice in the Americas; IV Ideas about Professional Reflection; 12 Reflective Practice; 13 Communicative Planning: Practices, Concepts, and Rhetorics; 14 Social Justice as Responsible Practice: Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and the Civil Rights Era; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-30572-0

OCLC:

801409179