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Planning for a new century : the regional agenda /

Across the United States, issues such as sustainability, smart growth, and livable communities are making headlines. Planning for a New Century brings together leading thinkers in the fields of planning, urban design, education, welfare, and housing to examine those issues and to consider the ways i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barnett, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forward / David Rusk
  • Introduction: an agenda for a new century / Jonathan Barnett
  • pt. 1. New metropolitanism. Regional imperatives of global competition / Theodore Hershberg
  • Planning metropolitan regions / Gary Hack
  • pt. 2. Managing growth and conserving the environment. Social equity and metropolitan growth / John C. Keene
  • Regional design: local codes as cause and cure of sprawl / Jonathan Barnett
  • Next steps in controlling pollution / Roger Raufer
  • Highway planning and land use: theory and practice / Stephen H. Putman
  • pt. 3. Education, safety, and welfare. Improving primary and secondary education / Susan H. Fuhrman
  • Improving public safety in cities / Thomas M. Seamon
  • Welfare reform, reproductive reform, or work reform? / Roberta Rehner Iversen
  • pt. 4. Restoring older urban areas. Housing and urban communities / Eugenie L. Birch
  • Restoring natural resources and rebuilding urban communities / Anne Whiston Spirn
  • Downtowns: competitive for a new century / Paul R. Levy
  • Afterword / Judith Rodin.