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Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning brings together a wide range of editorial and discussion topics, coupled with commentary and overviews to create an enlightening record of the continuously evolving philosophy of building and managing cities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chavan, Abhijeet, Peralta, Christian, Steins, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Cities and towns > United States > Growth.
City planning > United States.
Regional planning > United States.
Mixed-use developments > United States.
Sustainable development > United States.
Villes > États-Unis > Croissance.
Aménagement du territoire > États-Unis.
Mixité fonctionnelle > États-Unis.
Développement durable > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Regional Planning.
Cities and towns > Growth.
City planning.
Mixed-use developments.
Regional planning.
Sustainable development.
Stadtplanung
United States.
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section 1: Sprawl v. Smart Growth
  • A tipping point-but now the hard part / Anthony Flint
  • The argument against smart growth / Wendell Cox
  • Prescription for urban sprawl: adapting smart growth strategies to a big city / Michael Woo
  • Can't smart growth and sprawl just get along? / Rick Bishop
  • How we pay for growth / William Fulton
  • What is the new suburbanism? / Joel Kotkin
  • Zoning in a time warp: the coming 'oversupply' of single family homes / Harriet Tregoning
  • Preserving the American dream by cost not coercion / Randal O'Toole
  • Section 2: Transportation
  • Ten keys To walkable communities / Daniel Burden
  • The price of parking on great streets / Donald C. Shoup
  • The pricing revolution on the roads / Peter Samuel
  • How temporal use of streets can be a catalyst for change / Kenneth Kruckemeyer
  • Making TODs work: lessons from Portland's Orenco Station / Michael Mehaffy
  • Section Three: Urban Design
  • Planning for the public realm / Alex Garvin
  • Making better places: ten city design resolutions / Jeff Speck
  • Principles essential to the renewal of architecture / Andrés Duany
  • Why new urbanism fails / Christopher DeWolfe
  • Urban parks: innovate or stagnate / Fred Kent
  • Section Four: Disaster Planning
  • Recovering New Orleans / Thomas J. Campanella
  • The end of tall buildings / James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros
  • Fortifying America: planning for fear / Edward J. Blakely
  • Planning for post-disaster recovery / Robert B. Olshansky
  • Section Five: Society and Planning
  • Is gentrification really a threat? / John Norquist
  • Gentrification reality tour: neither benign nor benevolent / Charles Shaw
  • Is Kelo good for urban planning? / Samuel R. Staley
  • Bring schools back into walkable neighborhoods / Constance E. Beaumont
  • The Lone Mountain Compact: a debate on Libertarian planning principles / C. Kenneth Orski, G.B. Arrington, Patrick Condon, and John H. Hooker.

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