The Routledge handbook of planning history / edited by Carola Hein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hein, Carola.

Contributor:

Hein, Carola, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--History.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges. A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

The what, why, and how of planning history / Carola Hein

Writing planning history : agents, theories, methods, and typologies

The pioneers, institutions and vehicles of planning history / Stephen V Ward

Interdisciplinarity in planning history / Nancy H.Kwak

Planning history and theory : institutions, comparison, and temporal processes / André Sorensen

The history of planning methodology / Peter Batey

Biographical method / Robert Freestone

Planning diffusion : agents, mechanisms, networks and theories / Stephen V Ward

Global systems foundations of the discipline : colonial, post-colonial and other power structures / Robert Home

Time, place and culture : from Euro-American to global planning history

The ancient past in the urban present : the use of early models in urban design / Michael E. Smith, Carola Hein

Writing planning history in the English-speaking world / Robert Freestone

Key planning histories of the developing western tradition from the mid-19th century to the early-20th century / David Massey

Urbanisme, urbanismo, urbanistica : Latin European urbanism / Javier Monclâus, Carmen Díez Medina

Urbanisme and the francophone sphere / Clément Orillard

The German traditions of Städtebau and Stadtlandschaft and their diffusion through global exchange / Celina Kress

Planning history in and of Russia and the Soviet Union / Maria Taylor, Irina V. Kukina

From urbanism to planning process : convergences of Latin American countries / Maria Cristina da Silva Leme, Vera Lucia Motta Rezende

Southeast Asia : colonial discourses / Abidin Kusno

Postcolonial Southeast Asia / Abidin Kusno

Idioms of Japanese planning historiography / Carola Hein

The uses of planning history in China / Daniel B. Abramson

Planning histories in the Arab world / Eric Verdeil, Joe Nasr

Africa's urban planning palimpsest / Susan Parnell

Sites and dynamics : issues, movements / Themes and Debates

Politics, power and urban form / David Gordon

Planning for economic development / Richard Hu

Planning for infrastructure : lifelines, mobility, and urban developmenat / Domenic Vitiello

Ports and urban waterfronts / Dirk Schubert

Urban segments and event spaces : world's fairs and olympic sites / John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

Public health and urban planning: intertwined histories / Russell Lopez

Urbanism, housing and the city / Cor Wagenaar

Global suburbanization in planning history / André Sorensen

Opposition, participation, and community driven planning histories / Dirk Schubert

Livability and environmental sustainability : from smoky to livable cities / Dieter Schott

Disasters : recovery, replanning, reconstruction and resilience / Peter J. Larkham

A history of heritage conservation in city planning / Jyoti Hosagrahar

Futures

Educating planners in history : a global perspective / Christopher Silver

The imprint of history in the practice of city and regional planning lessons from the cincinnati case : 1925-2012 / Eugenie L. Birch

Death of the author, center, and meta-theory : emerging planning histories and expanding methods of the early 21st century / Tom Avermaete

Future narratives for planning history / Stephen J. Ramos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-367-87237-4

1-317-51465-3

1-317-51466-1

9781315718996

OCLC:

1005686362