The Urban and Regional Planning Reader
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-415-31998-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Urban and Regional Planning Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate the planning of cities and metropolitan areas. Forty-seven generous selections include contributions from Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Ian McHarg, Paul Davidoff, Charles Harr, Susan Fainstein and Charles J. Hoch through to Timothy Beatley; Jonathan Barnett, Alex Garvin, Tom Daniels, Andres Duany and Barbara Faga. The variety and wide selection of readings offers one of the most innovative amalgamations of planning research and practice.
The Reader lays out the context, range of concerns, history, methods and key topics for twenty-first century urban and regional planning. Sections on the world of planning, history and theory, classic readings, practice and current issues include writings with a focus on the distribution of space and place, essays on housing, transportation design, environment, community development, the effects of cultural diversity and information technology on land use and other topics. It displays the techniques used to direct and control growth, including zoning, master planning, public budgeting and citizen participation. It explores different types of plans distinguished by their scale and reference type. It references analytical and presentation techniques and outlines ethical issues confronting planners.
This Urban and Regional Planning Reader provides an essential resource, for students of planning, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings and the associated bibliography is a resource which enables deeper investigations. The synthesis is also valuable for lecturers and researches in the area and the pertinent editorial commentaries preceding each entry not only demonstrate its significance, but also outline the issue surrounding the topic.
The Reader lays out the context, range of concerns, history, methods and key topics for twenty-first century urban and regional planning. Sections on the world of planning, history and theory, classic readings, practice and current issues include writings with a focus on the distribution of space and place, essays on housing, transportation design, environment, community development, the effects of cultural diversity and information technology on land use and other topics. It displays the techniques used to direct and control growth, including zoning, master planning, public budgeting and citizen participation. It explores different types of plans distinguished by their scale and reference type. It references analytical and presentation techniques and outlines ethical issues confronting planners.
This Urban and Regional Planning Reader provides an essential resource, for students of planning, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings and the associated bibliography is a resource which enables deeper investigations. The synthesis is also valuable for lecturers and researches in the area and the pertinent editorial commentaries preceding each entry not only demonstrate its significance, but also outline the issue surrounding the topic.
Reviews / Votes
"Educators unfamiliar with Routledge's Urban Reader series will find The Urban and Regional Planning Reader to be a refreshing collection for introductory planning classes. Birch's reader goes beyond the typical compilation of articles organized by topic and introduced by short prefaces to become a truly artful anthology of seminal and forward-looking writings about urban and regional planning." -Journal of the American Planning Association, March 2010"[Birch] should be commended for navigating such a broad field to assemble this generally representative survey."-Michael R. Glass, Urban Studies Program, University of Pittsuburgh, in The Pennsylvania Geographer 48, 1
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
76 s/w Abbildungen, 63 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 13 s/w Zeichnungen, 4 s/w Tabellen
4 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white; 63 Halftones, black and white; 76 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
950 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-31998-0 (9780415319980)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Eugenie Birch
The Urban and Regional Planning Reader
Book
12/2008
1st Edition
Routledge
€306.30
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Person
Eugenie L Birch FAICP, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
Content
Part 1: The World of Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 1. The State of the World's Cities 2. Megaforces Shaping the Future of the Nation's Cities 3. Planning, Urban Revitalization and Inner City: An Exploration of Structural Racism 4. Pluralistic Planning for Multicultural Cities 5. Suburbia: Homeland of the American Future 6. The New Suburban Typology Part 2. History and Theory of Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 7. Modernism and Early Urban Planning 8. Reflections and Research on the U.S. Experience 9. Practitioners and the Art of Planning 10. The Shapes of Suburbia 11. Ramapo at Thirty, The Changing Role of the Plan in Land Use Regulation 12. Anglo-American Town Planning Theory Since 1945: Three Significant Developments But No Paradigm Shifts 13. New Directions in Planning Theory Part 3: Classics in Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 14. Dimensions of Performance 15. Downtown is for People 16. Home Remedies for Urban Cancer 17. The Master Plan, An Impermanent Constitution 18. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning 19. The Metropolitan Region 20. Paying for the Plan Part 4: The Plan: Its Origins and Contemporary Uses Introduction 21. Twentieth Century Land Use Planning, A Stalwart Family Tree 22. Regionalism 23. Does Planning Need the Plan? 24. How Plans Work 25. The Land Planning Arena 26. Shaping Cities Through Development Regulations Part 5: Planning, Practice and Methods Introduction 27. Introduction: Planning for People and Places 28. Planning Environments 29. A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning...Ingredients of Success 30. Demographic Futures as a Guide to Planning California Latinos and the Compact City 31. Geographic Information Systems 32. The Future of Public Participation Part 6: Key Topics in Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 34. Implementing the Solutions, Measures for Achieving Intermodal Balance 35. Hopeful Signs Urban Revitalization in the 21st Century 36. Sprawl and the Tyranny of Easy Development Decisions 37. How To Make a Town 38. Environmental Planning 39. Planning Metropolitan Regions Part 7: Emerging Issues in Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 40. The Promise of Urban Growth 41. Land Use and Urban Form: Planning Compact Cities 42. Cities Under Siege, Urban Planning and the Threat of Infectious Diseases 43. 22@Barcelona: A New District for the Creative Economy 44. The Changing Politics of Urban Mega- Projects 45. Beyond Megalopolis: Exploring America's New 'Megapolitan' Geography 46. The Spatial Organization of Cities: Deliberate Outcome or Unforeseen Consequence