The Urban and Regional Planning Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415319980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 441 str.

Eugenie Birch

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.