Planning Ideas That Matter Livability, Territoriality, Governance, and Reflective Practice

Name: Planning Ideas That Matter Livability, Territoriality, Governance, and Reflective Practice
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ISBN: 9780262517683

ISBN-10: 026251768X

ISBN-13: 9780262517683

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bishwapriya Sanyal, Lawrence J. Vale, Christina D. Rosan, Robert Fishman, Gary Hack

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Over the past hundred years of urbanization and suburbanization, four key themes have shaped urban and regional planning in both theory and practice: livability, territoriality, governance, and reflective professional practice. Planning Ideas That Matter charts the trajectories of these powerful planning ideas in an increasingly interconnected world.The contributors, leading theorists and practitioners, discuss livability in terms of such issues as urban density, land use, and the relationship between the built environment and natural systems; examine levels of territorial organization, drawing on literature on regionalism, metropolitanism, and territorial competition; describe the ways…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Bishwapriya Sanyal is Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning at MIT.

Lawrence J. Vale is Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author most recently of Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities.



Acknowledgments


List of Contributors



Four Planning Conversations




Ideas about Livability



Shaping Urban Form




New Urbanism




Sustainability in Planning: The Arc and Trajectory of a Movement, and New Directions for the Twenty-First-Century City




Ideas about Territoriality



Regional Development Planning




Metropolitanism: How Metropolitan Planning Has Been Shaped by and Reflected in the Plans of the Regional Plan Association




Territorial Competitiveness: Lineages, Practices, Ideologies




Ideas about Governance



Urban Development




Public-Private Engagement: Promise and Practice




Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea




Self-Help Housing Ideas and Practice in the Americas




Ideas about Professional Reflection



Reflective Practice




Communicative Planning: Practices, Concepts, and Rhetorics




Social Justice as Responsible Practice: Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and the Civil Rights Era



Index