City Planning
A Very Short Introduction
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9780190944346
Publication date:
01/07/2021
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Price: 375.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780190944346
Publication date:
01/07/2021
Paperback
Carl Abbott
Provides a broad international overview of progress in city planning over the last century,Examines the intersectional nature of urban design and development,Part of the Very Short Introduction series—millions of copies sold worldwide
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Carl Abbott
Description
City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and—sometimes utopian—aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of city planning, also known as urban or town planning, are related fields of architecture, landscape design, engineering, geography, political science and policy, sociology, and social work. In addition, the legions of community and environmental activists influence
debates and controversies within the field.
This Very Short Introduction is organized around eight key aspects of city planning: street layout; congestion and decentralization; the response to suburbanization; the conservation and regeneration of older districts; cities as natural systems; cities and regions; social class and ethnicity; and disasters and resilience. The underlying assumption throughout is that decisions that we make today about cities and metropolitan regions are best understood as the continuation of past efforts to solve fundamental problems that have shifted and evolved over multiple generations. At its best, city planning utilizes technical tools
to achieve goals set by community action and political debate. Carl Abbott's addition to Oxford's long-running Very Short Introduction series is a brief but concentrated look at past decisions about the management of urban growth and their effects on the creation of the twenty-first century city.
About the author
Carl Abbott, Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State UniversityCarl Abbott is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities and How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America.
Carl Abbott
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Streets and Buildings
Chapter 2: The Suburban Solution
Chapter 3: Experts and Citizens
Chapter 4: Saving the Center
Chapter 5: Metropolis and Megaregion
Chapter 6: Nature in the City
Chapter 7: Unnatural Disasters and Resilient Cities
Epilogue: Imagining Future Cities
List of Illustrations
References
Further Reading
Carl Abbott
Description
City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and—sometimes utopian—aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of city planning, also known as urban or town planning, are related fields of architecture, landscape design, engineering, geography, political science and policy, sociology, and social work. In addition, the legions of community and environmental activists influence
debates and controversies within the field.
This Very Short Introduction is organized around eight key aspects of city planning: street layout; congestion and decentralization; the response to suburbanization; the conservation and regeneration of older districts; cities as natural systems; cities and regions; social class and ethnicity; and disasters and resilience. The underlying assumption throughout is that decisions that we make today about cities and metropolitan regions are best understood as the continuation of past efforts to solve fundamental problems that have shifted and evolved over multiple generations. At its best, city planning utilizes technical tools
to achieve goals set by community action and political debate. Carl Abbott's addition to Oxford's long-running Very Short Introduction series is a brief but concentrated look at past decisions about the management of urban growth and their effects on the creation of the twenty-first century city.
About the author
Carl Abbott, Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State UniversityCarl Abbott is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities and How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America.
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Streets and Buildings
Chapter 2: The Suburban Solution
Chapter 3: Experts and Citizens
Chapter 4: Saving the Center
Chapter 5: Metropolis and Megaregion
Chapter 6: Nature in the City
Chapter 7: Unnatural Disasters and Resilient Cities
Epilogue: Imagining Future Cities
List of Illustrations
References
Further Reading
David M. Gwynn
Bryan Cheyette
Barry Cunliffe
Christopher Smith
David A. Gerber
Heather Clark
Joseph T. Glatthaar
Alan Knight
Chris Gosden
John Blair
