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The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.

  • Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.
  • Draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, arguments for and against planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and considerations of race and ...
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Overview

The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.

  • Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years.
  • Draws on a wide range of authors who address planning history, arguments for and against planning, competing planning styles, planning ethics, the public interest, and considerations of race and gender.
  • Theoretical perspectives include political economy, postmodernism, communicative rationality, and feminism.
  • Readings new to this edition examine themes emerging in planning theory, including a critique of the modernist roots of centralized planning, a reemphasis on space in planning, and a discussion of the difficulty of sustainable development.
  • Features new case studies of planning success and failure in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
  • Contains thirteen wholly new readings.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781444330809
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 9/27/2011
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 584
  • Product dimensions: 6.80 (w) x 9.72 (h) x 1.24 (d)

Meet the Author

Scott Campbell
Scott Campbell is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. His research has focused on defense-industrial cities, regional and environmental planning, and German cities. He is co-author of The Rise of the Gunbelt (with Ann Markusen, Peter Hall, and Sabina Deitrick) and of a forthcoming book on Berlin and is co-editor of Readings in Urban Theory, Second Edition (co-edited with Susan S. Fainstein, Blackwell, 2002).

Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University. Her research has focused on planning theory, comparative public policy, urban redevelopment, and citizen participation. Among her books are Urban Political Movements, Restructuring the City, The City Builders (second edition 2001), Divided Cities (co-edited with Ian Gordon and Michael Harloe; Blackwell, 1992), and Cities and Visitors (co-edited with Lily M. Hoffman and Dennis R. Judd; Blackwell 2003).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory 1
Pt. I Foundations of Twentieth-Century Planning Theory
1 Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier 21
2 The Death and Life of Great American Cities 61
3 Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning 75
Pt. II Planning: Justifications and Critiques
4 Arguments For and Against Planning 86
5 Planning the Capitalist City 102
6 Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U.S. Planning 108
7 Authoritarian High Modernism 125
8 Making Space: Planning as a Mode of Thought 142
Pt. III Planning Types
9 New Directions in Planning Theory 173
10 The Science of "Muddling Through" 196
11 Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning 210
12 Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development 224
13 The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation 237
Pt. IV Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies
14 What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases 262
15 Community and Consensus: Reality and Fantasy in Planning 275
16 Popular Planning: Coin Street, London 296
17 Rationality and Power 318
Pt. V Race, Gender, and City Planning
18 City Life and Difference 336
19 Educating Planners: Unified Diversity for Social Action 356
20 Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie 376
21 Towards Cosmopolis: Utopia as Construction Site 401
Pt. VI Ethics, the Environment, and Conflicting Priorities
22 APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories 413
23 Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation 418
24 Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development 435
Index 459

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