American Planning Tradition Culture and Policy

Name: American Planning Tradition Culture and Policy
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ISBN: 9780943875965

ISBN-10: 094387596X

ISBN-13: 9780943875965

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert Fishman

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Today with everything urban and public perpetually in crisis, we turn towards the figures who shaped our cities and left a legacy of public spaces. This work reevaluates those planners and their times in a series of essays.

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Foreword




The American Planning Tradition: An Introduction and Interpretation




Two Traditions



Holding the Middle Ground




The Metropolitan Tradition in American Planning




The Quest for National Planning



Federalism and National Planning: The Nineteeth-Century Legacy




"Watersheds" in Regional Planning




The National Resources Planning Board and the Reconstruction of Planning




Planning Environmentalism, and Urban Poverty: The Political Failure of National Land-Use Planning Legislation, 1970-1975




Recreating the "Commons": The Local Experience



Race and Renewal in the Cold War South: New Orleans, 1947-1968




The Capital of Good Planning: Metropolitan Portland since 1970




Local Initiative and Metropolitan Repetition: Chicago, 1972-1990




Reclaiming Common Ground: Water, Neighborhoods, and Public Places



Contributors


Index