Making Space : Property Development and Urban Planning

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maclaran, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Case studies.

City planning.

Land use, Urban--Case studies.

Land use, Urban.

Urban renewal--Case studies.

Urban renewal.

Local Subjects:

City planning--Case studies.

City planning.

Land use, Urban--Case studies.

Land use, Urban.

Urban renewal--Case studies.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2003.

Summary:

Making Space studies the built environment by examining the private-sector forces responsible for its development and the urban planning systems put in place to influence, guide and manipulate its outcomes. The first part provides a theoretical context for understanding the functions of the property development sector and the state's interventions through the medium of urban planning. It analyses the relationship between planning and development, and focuses on the increasingly widespread adoption of more pro-active entrepreneurial planning agendas as a response to a growing disenchantment wit

Contents:

Cover; Book title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Creating urban space; 2 Masters of space: the property development sector; 3 Planning the city; 4 The rejuvenation of downtown Minneapolis: urban planning as a creature of private-sector interests; 5 Planning central Sydney; 6 Dublin: property development and planning in an entrepreneurial city; 7 Remaking the city: property processes, planning and the local entrepreneurial state in Auckland; 8 Reshaping and reinventing the city of Birmingham, UK: planning for enterprise and the information society

9 Growth machines and growth pains: the contradictions of property development and landscape in Sioux Falls, South DakotaBibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-134-63364-5

1-283-05987-8

9786613059871

1-4441-4467-7

OCLC:

710975184