The Profession of City Planning
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Taylor and Francis · Ebook · January 17, 2000
In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years.
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- Who it’s for
- Thirty-four chapters examine city planning’s past practices, current work, and contributions to urban life.
- Genres
- Cities & Urban Planning, Urban & Land Use Planning, Urban & Regional Economics
- Published
- Taylor and Francis, January 17, 2000
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In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years.
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The book appraises what planners do and how well they do it, how and why their current activities differ from past practices, and how much and in what ways planners have or have not enhanced the quality of urban life and contributed to the intellectual capital of the field.How have the goals, values, and practices of planners changed? What do planners say about their roles and the problems they confront? What is the relevance of their skills, from design capabilities and environmental savvy to intermediate and long-term perspectives and the pragmatics of implementation? The contributors seeking to answer these questions include Anthony Downs, Nathan Glazer, Philip B. Herr, Judith E. Innes, Terry S. Szold, Lawrence J. Vale, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr.The Profession of City Planning contrasts with the main changes in the US over the second half of the twentieth century in city planning. Sector images of the practice and effects of planning on housing, transportation, and the environment, as well as the development of economic tools are also discussed.
Planning Across Decades
Thirty-four chapters examine city planning’s past practices, current work, and contributions to urban life.
Come here for
- How planners’ goals, values, and practices changed
- Planning’s effects on housing, transportation, and the environment
Expect
- Contrasts between planning practice across the second half of the twentieth century
- Discussion of planners’ skills, roles, and implementation challenges
Where it sits
| Urban & Land Use Planning | 67% |
|---|---|
| Cities & Urban Planning | 64% |
| Urban & Regional Economics | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Biography & Memoir
- Social Science
- Authors
- Lloyd Rodwin
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Published
- January 17, 2000
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Biography & Memoir