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Overview
Contemporary Urban Planning provides students with in-depth coverage of the historic, economic, political, legal, and environmental factors affecting urban planning. With updated coverage of the Obama administration's response to the 2009 economic downturn, John M. Levy also addresses the most pressing issues in urban development today-including the subprime mortgage, crisis and home foreclosures, federal funding for public transportation, and new standards for "green" buildings.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781317213833 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Publication date: | 08/12/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 476 |
| Sales rank: | 727,018 |
| File size: | 9 MB |
About the Author
Sonia A. Hirt is Dean and Hughes Professor in Landscape Architecture and Planning at the College of Environment + Design at the University of Georgia, USA. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Planning History and has been on the editorial boards of nine other scholarly journals. She was a Guggenheim Fellow (2023–24). Her research focuses on culture, cities, and space, especially in Europe and the USA.
Casey J. Dawkins is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a faculty member of the National Center for Smart Growth, at the University of Maryland, USA. He serves as an Associate Editor of the journal Housing Policy Debate and is an appointed member of the Maryland Board of Architects. His research focuses on US housing policy; manufactured housing; the causes, consequences, and measurement of residential segregation; and the link between land use regulations and housing affordability.
Table of Contents
Part 1 The Background and Development of Contemporary Planning
1 An Overview 1
The Need for Planning 1
The Specific Concerns of Planning 3
Who Are the Planners? 4
Professional Organizations 5
Satisfactions and Discontents 6
Useful Abilities 7
The Plan of This Book 7
Note 8
2 The Urbanization of America 9
Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century 9
Urban Trends in the Twentieth Century 15
Summary 26
Notes 27
Selected Bibliography 28
3 The History of Planning: Part I 29
Colonial America 30
Limited Means and Growing Problems 32
The Pressure for Reform 33
The Birth of Modern City Planning 40
The Public Control of Private Property 42
The Emergence of Regional and State Planning 47
Grander Visions 50
Summary 53
Notes 54
Selected Bibliography 55
4 The History of Planning: Part II 56
Planning and the Great Depression 57
The Postwar Period 60
Summary 68
Notes 69
Selected Bibliography 69
Part 2 The Structure and Practice of Contemporary Planning
5 The Legal Basis of Planning 70
The Constitutional Framework 70
Public Control over Private Property 72
The Rights of Nonresidents 81
The Fight over Eminent Domain 84
State-Enabling Legislation 86
The Federal Role 88
Summary 91
Notes 91
Selected Bibliography 92
6 Planning and Politics 93
Why Is Planning Political? 93
Planners and Power 95
The Fragmentation of Power 96
Styles of Planning 99
How Planning Agencies Are Organized 101
Summary 105
Notes 105
Selected Bibliography 106
7 The Social Issues 107
The Social Issues in Planning for Housing 108
Other Issues 117
Who Does Social Planning? 120
Summary 120
Notes 121
Selected Bibliography 122
8 The Comprehensive Plan 123
The Goals of Comprehensive Planning 123
The Comprehensive Planning Process 125
How Effective Are Comprehensive Plans? 132
Summary 133
Notes 134
Selected Bibliography 135
9 The Tools of Land-Use Planning 136
Public Capital Investment 136
Land-Use Controls 139
Making Zoning More Flexible 149
Form-Based Zoning 160
Other Types of Local Land-Use Controls 163
Combining Capital Investment and Land-Use Controls 165
Forces Beyond Local Control 166
Summary 168
Notes 169
Selected Bibliography 171
Part 3 Fields of Planning
10 Urban Design 172
What Is Urban Design? 174
The Urban Design Process 181
What Is Good Urban Design? 183
Replanning Suburbia: The Neotraditionalists 189
Edge City 195
Visions of the City of the Future 199
Coming to Terms with the Automobile 203
Summary 204
Notes 205
Selected Bibliography 205
11 Urban Renewal and Community Development 207
Urban Renewal 208
Community Development 216
The Housing Question 220
Planning for Housing 222
The Housing Bubble and the Problem of Abandonment 225
Summary 230
Notes 231
Selected Bibliography 233
12 Transportation Planning 234
Recent Trends in Urban Transportation 234
Paying for Transportation 238
Transportation Planning and Land Use 239
The Transportation Planning Process 241
Changes in the Federal Role 249
Fine-Tuning the System 250
The Growing Role of Tolls and Privatization 252
Smart Highways, Intelligent Vehicles, and New Machines 254
Summary 256
Notes 257
Selected Bibliography 258
13 Economic Development Planning 259
Historic Roots 260
Perspectives on Local Economic Development 261
State Economic Development Efforts 264
Local Economic Development Programs 265
Summary 273
Notes 274
Selected Bibliography 275
14 Growth Management, Smart Growth, and Sustainable Development 276
The Origins of Growth Management 277
Winners and Losers in Growth Management 279
A Sampling of Local Growth Management Programs 281
State-Level Growth Management 284
Growth Management-Pro or Con? 289
The Challenge of Smart Growth 290
Planning for Sustainability 293
Summary 299
Notes 300
Selected Bibliography 302
15 Environmental and Energy Planning 303
The Environmental Planning Problem 303
Environmental Progress at the National Level 304
The Question of Global Climate Change 305
Environmental Policy During the Bush and Obama Adrninistrarion 309
The Intergovernment Context of Environmental Planning 311
Economic and Political Issues in Environmental Planning 316
Local Environmental Planning 320
An Example of Environmental Planning 323
Energy Planning 326
Summary 331
Notes 332
Selected Bibliography 333
6 Planning for Metropolitan Regions 334
The Political Problem 334
A Brief History of Metropolitan-Area Planning 336
Minneapolis-St Paul: A Tale of Two Cities 340
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 342
The Atlanta Regional Commission 348
Summary 350
Notes 351
Selected Bibliography 352
Part 4 Larger Questions
17 National Planning in the United States 353
Is There National Planning in the United States? 353
The Pattern of Land Settlement 354
Establishing the Rail Network 355
Water and the West 357
Systematic Regional Planning 361
The Interstate Highway System 363
Financing the Suburbs 366
Land Management 369
What's Next? 370
Summary 371
Notes 371
Selected Bibliography 372
18 Planning in Other Nations 373
Planning in Western Europe 373
Planning in Eastern Europe 400
Planning in the Third World 406
A Look Ahead 411
Summary 412
Notes 413
Selected Bibliography 415
19 Planning Theory 416
Is Theory Necessary? 416
A Distinction Between Public and Private Planning 417
The Process of Planning 418
Advocacy Planning 425
Planning from Right and Left 426
Summary 433
Notes 434
Selected Bibliography 435
Index 436