New Urbanism and American Planning The Conflict of Cultures

Name: New Urbanism and American Planning The Conflict of Cultures
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ISBN: 9780415701334

ISBN-10: 0415701333

ISBN-13: 9780415701334

Edition: 2005

Authors: Emily Talen

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Showing how New Urbanism is simply American urbanism as it has been evolving since the nineteenth century, this is a history not of what has been achieved but rather of what planners have sought to achieve--a history of the quest for good cities. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, the author identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms "cultures": incrementalism, plan-making, planned communities, and regionalism. She shows how these cultures connect, overlap, and conflict one with another and how most of the ideas about building better settlements are so recurrent. She concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of the four…

Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.25" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232



Foreword



Acknowledgements



Introduction: Defining American Urbanism



Framework: Four Urbanist Cultures



Principles: Urbanism vs. Anti-Urbanism



Incrementalism: Beauty, Redemption, Conservation and Complexity



Urban Plan-Making: the City Beautiful and the City Efficient



Planned Communities



Regionalism



Successes and Failures



Conclusion: the Survival of New Urbanism


Bibliography