Comparative Planning Cultures (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bishwapriya, Sanyal

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136794575
• Artikelnr.: 38274600

Autorenporträt

Bishwapriya Sanyal is Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning at MIT. He served as the Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT from 1994 to 2002 and is currently the Head of the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies, which hosts mid-career practicing planners from around the world at MIT. He is currently working on a book on the internationalization of planning education.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Overview 1. Bishwapriya Sanyal- Hybrid Planning Cultures: And the
Search for the Global Cultural Commons. Part II: Two Theoretical
Propositions 2. John Friedmann-Planning Cultures in an Era of Transition.
3. Manuel Castells-Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory
of Urbanism in the Information Age. Part III: The Traffic of Planning Ideas
in Industrializing Nations 4. Kian Tajbakhsh-Planning Culture in Iran:
Centralization and Decentralization and Local Governance in the Twentieth
Century. 5. Michael Leaf-Modernity Confronts Tradition: The Professional
Planner and Local Corporatism in the Rebuilding of China's Cities. 6. Mee
Kam Ng-Planning Cultures in Two Chinese Transitional Cities: Hong Kong and
Shenzhen. 7. Tridip Banerjee-Understanding Planning Cultures: The Kolkata
Paradox. 8. Robert Cowherd-Does Planning Culture Matter? Dutch and American
Models in Indonesian Urban Transformations. 9. Diane E. Davis-Planning for
Mexico City: Contending Planning Cultures and the Urban Built Environment
in Mexico City . Part IV: Planning Cultures and Social Change: The
Experience of Industrialized Nations 10. André Soreneon-The Developmental
State and the Extreme Narrowness of the Public Realm: The 20th Century
Evolution of Japanese Planning Culture. 11. Philip Booth-The Nature of
Difference: Traditions of Law and Government and Their Effects on Planning
in Britain and France. 12. Andreas Faludi-The Netherlands: A Culture with a
Soft Spot for Planning. 13. Leonie Sandercock-Picking The Paradoxes: An
Historical Anatomy Of Australian Planning Cultures. 14. Eugenie L. Birch-
US Planning Culture Under Pressure: Major Elements Endure and Flourish in
the Face of Crises.