Thinking, planning and urbanism
By: Beth Moore Milroy
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780774816144; 9780774816151
Subjects: City planning; Urbanisme; Urban Sociology; Sociologie urbaine
Description: "' 'Thinking planning and urbanism' reconstructs the process of an urban core area redevelopment in order to show how city planning was involved in the decisions taken... This book exposes the cracks in planning itself, revealing how its theories - based on the premise that space is a social construction - do not help practising planners, who need a broader understanding of urbanism in which to find and persuasively argue for creative solutions to pedestrian problems."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Opening; title: History / with Nik Luka; title: Regeneration; title: Redeveloping; title: Defending; title: Implementing; title: Closing; title: App.1. Selected elements of the planning framework; title: App.2. Chronology; title: App.3. Basic characteristics of the planning area; title: App.4. Socioeconomic information about the planning area; title: App.5. Seven development options, Yonge and Dundas area, December 1996; title: App.6. Financial plan and costing scenarios, Yonge and Dundas area, December 1995; title: App.7. Issues raised at public meetings and via correspondence regarding the redevelopment scheme, spring 1997; title: App.8. Bylaws before the Joint Board; title: App.9. Decision of the Joint Board, jurisdiction, conclusions and findings, decision and conditions, and obiter dicta; title: App.10. Sample calendar of events at Nathan Phillips Square January to July 2000.