The Profession of City Planning
Subtitle: Changes, Images, and Challenges: 1950-200
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781315134253
Subjects: City planning; History
Description: "In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years. The book appraises what planners do and how well they do it, how and why their current activities differ from past practices, and how much and in what ways planners have or have not enhanced the quality of urban life and contributed to the intellectual capital of the field. How have the goals, values, and practices of planners changed? What do planners say about their roles and the problems they confront? What is the relevance of their skills, from design capabilities and environmental savvy to intermediate and long-term perspectives and the pragmatics of implementation? The contributors seeking to answer these questions include Anthony Downs, Nathan Glazer, Philip B. Herr, Judith E. Innes, Terry S. Szold, Lawrence J. Vale, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr. The Profession of City Planning contrasts with the main changes in the US over the second half of the twentieth century in city planning. Sector images of the practice and effects of planning on housing, transportation, and the environment, as well as the development of economic tools are also discussed."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, I Overview --; title: chapter 1 Images and Paths of Change in Economics, Political Science, Philosophy, Literature, and City Planning: 1950-2000  -- Lloyd Rodwin; title: part, II Images Of City-Planning Practice --; title: Collage --; title: chapter 2 Planning Shapes Urban Growth and Development  -- Dennis Frenchman; title: chapter 3 Challenge and Creativity in Post-Modern Planning  -- Judith E. Innes; title: chapter 4 Merging Place-Making and Process in Local Practice  -- Terry S. Szold; title: chapter 5 City Planning in Small and Medium-Size Cities  -- Philip B. Herr; title: chapter 6 Notes on Planning Practice and Education  -- Allan B. Jacobs; title: chapter 7 Planning Practice in America's Largest Cities  -- Con Howe; title: chapter 8 Town Planning: Limits to ReJlection-in-Action  -- Donald Schön; title: chapter 9 Planning Education for an Expanding Civic Sector  -- Robert Yaro; title: chapter 10 Nonprofits: New Settings for City Planners  -- Christie Baxter; title: chapter 11 Looking Back, Looking Forward  -- Israel Stollman; title: chapter 12 Equity Planning: Problems and Roles  -- Phillip L. Clay; title: chapter 13 The Planning Profession and Reform  -- Chester Hartman; title: part, III Images of City-Planning Practice --; title: Sectors --; title: chapter 14 How City-Planning Practices Affect Metropolitan-Area Housing Markets, and Vice Versa  -- Anthony Downs; title: chapter 15 Education for Transportation Planning in a New Century  -- Martin Wachs; title: chapter 16 Urban Transportation Planning  -- Ralph Gakenheimer; title: chapter 17 U.S. Urban Environmental Planning  -- Leonard Ortolano; title: chapter 18 Environmental Planning: The Changing Demands of Effective Practice  -- Lawrence Susskind; title: chapter 19 Economic Base Studies for Urban and Regional Planning  -- Andrew M. Isserman; title: chapter 20 Changes in Theorizing and Planning Urban Economic Growth  -- Bennett J. Harrison; title: chapter 21 Further Notes on Changes in Theorizing  -- William Alonso; title: part, IV The Public Image and the Leadership Role of the Profession --; title: chapter 22 The Planner as Urban Designer: Reforming Planning Education in the New Millennium  -- Alex Kriege; title: chapter 23 Where Have All the Planners Gone?  -- Witold Rybczynski; title: chapter 24 Where Are the Planners? --; title: chapter 25 Urban Design for Urban Development --; title: chapter 26 The Public's Image of the Profession --; title: chapter 27 Do Americans Like City Planning? --; title: chapter 28 City Planning Since Jane Jacobs --; title: part, V What About the Future? --; title: chapter 29 Planning Practice and Planning Education --; title: chapter 30 Why Planning Theory? Educating Citizens, Recognizing Differences, Mediating Deliberations --; title: chapter 31 Planning As Craft and As Philosophy --; title: chapter 32 Reflections and Research on the U.S. Experience  -- Michael B. Teitz; title: chapter 33 Implications for Planners of Race, Inequality, and a Persistent "Color Line"  -- Lawrence D. Bobo; title: chapter 34 Racism and Deliberative Democracy --; title: chapter 35 Planning's Three Challenges -- Bishwapriya Sanyal.