The American Planning Tradition
Subtitle: Culture and Policy (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: July 5, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780943875958
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Urban Planning; Political Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; United States; Business/Economics; USA; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; General; Planning; Architecture / Planning; Public Policy - Regional Planning; City planning; Land use; Land use, Urban
First sentence: The last half-century has seen a radical transformation in American cities and regions, but paradoxically, this transformation has stimulated our interest in the older forms of cities and increased our respect for the planning tradition that created them.