Contemporary Urban Planning

Auteur

John M. Levy is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.

Sonia A. Hirt is Dean and Hughes Professor in Landscape Architecture and Planning at the College of Environment + Design at the University of Georgia, USA. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Planning History and has been on the editorial boards of nine other scholarly journals. She was a Guggenheim Fellow (202324). Her research focuses on culture, cities, and space, especially in Europe and the USA.

Casey J. Dawkins is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a faculty member of the National Center for Smart Growth, at the University of Maryland, USA. He serves as an Associate Editor of the journal Housing Policy Debate and is an appointed member of the Maryland Board of Architects. His research focuses on US housing policy; manufactured housing; the causes, consequences, and measurement of residential segregation; and the link between land use regulations and housing affordability.

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Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in-depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today.

Résumé
Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in-depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today.

Contenu

1. An Overview

Part 1: The Background and Development of Contemporary Urban Planning

2. The Urbanization of America

3. The History of Planning: Part I

4. The History of Planning: Part II

Part 2: The Structure and Practice of Contemporary Planning

5. The Legal Basis of Planning

With Sarah Schindler

6. Planning and Politics

7. Social Issues

8. The Comprehensive Plan

9. The Tools of Land-Use Planning

   Part 3: Fields of Planning

10. Urban Design

With Charles Steger

11. Housing and Community Development

12. Transportation Planning

13. Economic Development Planning

14. Environmental Planning

    Part 4: Larger Questions

15. Planning at the National, State, and Metropolitan Levels*

With C. David Loeks

16. Planning in Select Other Nations

With Johann Jessen, Clara Irazábal, and Sanjeev Vidhyarthi