UID:
almahu_9949434948902882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000581096
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1000581098
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9781003195818
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1003195814
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9781000581089
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100058108X
Content:
"City and Regional Planning provides a clearly written and lavishly illustrated overview of the theory and practice of city and regional planning. With material on the globalization and the world city system and provides examples from other countries, the book has been written with the needs of readers worldwide who seek an overview of city and regional planning. Chapters cover the history of cities and city and regional planning, urban design and placemaking, comprehensive plans, planning politics and plan implementation, planning vision, and environmental, transportation, and housing planning. The book pays special attention to diversity, social justice, and collaborative planning. Topics include current practice in resilience, transit-oriented development, complexity in planning, spatial equity, globalization, and advances in planning methods. It is aimed at U.S. graduate and undergraduate city and regional planning, geography, urban design, urban studies, civil engineering and other students and practitioners. It includes extensive material on current practice in planning for climate change. Each chapter includes a case study, a biography of an important planner, lists of concepts and important people and an list of books, article, videos, and other suggestions for further learning"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Biographies -- About the Author -- Advance Praise -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Art and Science of City and Regional Planning -- Introduction -- Scientific and Creative Planning Thinking -- What Is City and Regional Planning? -- Planners' Roles -- The City and Regional Planning Profession -- Planning Education -- Planning Specializations -- City and Regional Planning Research and Analytic Methods -- Summary -- Concepts -- People -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Learning
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Chapter 2 The Evolution of Cities and City and Regional Planning, 1607-1933 -- Introduction -- What Is a City? -- Urbanization -- U.S. Urban History -- American Indian Settlements -- East Coast Colonial Cities -- The Parks Movement -- From Specks in the Wilderness to Cities in the Wilderness -- Spanish Settlements in the American West -- Planning Washington, D.C. -- Westward Expansion: Frontier and Instant Cities -- U.S. Industrial Cities -- The Growth and Dispersion of Migrants of Color 1607-1933 -- Early Land Use, Housing, Environmental, and Natural Resource Planning and Policy
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Tenement House Reform -- Transportation and Communications Technology and the Emergence of the U.S. City System -- The World's Columbian Exhibition of 1893 -- Origins of the U.S. Planning Profession -- Early U.S. City and Regional Planning Education -- Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford -- The Great Regional Plan Debate: The New York Regional Plan Association (RPA) Versus the Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA) -- Historic Preservation Planning -- Summary -- Concepts -- People -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Learning -- Chapter 3 Urban Design and Placemaking -- Introduction
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Urban Design -- Placemaking -- Form-Based Codes and Transects -- The Image of the City -- The Space Between Buildings and Pedestrianized Streets -- Street and Sidewalk Design -- Designing for Diversity -- The New Urbanism -- Designing in Harmony With the Natural Environment -- Defensible Space and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) -- Summary -- Concepts -- People -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Learning -- Chapter 4 The Politics of City and Regional Planning -- Introduction -- The Legal Framework of U.S. Government Planning -- Special Districts
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Group Identity and Urban Politics -- Federal Government Urban Planning and Policy -- Ideology and Political Parties -- State and Local Politics and Planning -- Dillon's Rule and the Cooley Doctrine -- Ballot Box Planning -- Conflict Among Levels of Government -- The Elitist/Pluralist Debate -- Regime Theory -- City and County Planning Departments -- Planning Mediation and Negotiations -- Transparency and Speaking Truth to Power -- Summary -- Concepts -- People -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Learning -- Chapter 5 Planning Theory -- Introduction -- Theories of Knowledge -- Paradigm Shifts
Additional Edition:
Print version: LeGates, Richard T. City and regional planning New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032050584
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003195818
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003195818
