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Title Planetizen contemporary debates in urban planning / edited by Abhijeet Chavan, Christian Peralta, Christopher Steins
Published Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 183 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Section 1: Sprawl v. Smart Growth -- A tipping point-but now the hard part / Anthony Flint -- The argument against smart growth / Wendell Cox -- Prescription for urban sprawl: adapting smart growth strategies to a big city / Michael Woo -- Can't smart growth and sprawl just get along? / Rick Bishop -- How we pay for growth / William Fulton -- What is the new suburbanism? / Joel Kotkin -- Zoning in a time warp: the coming 'oversupply' of single family homes / Harriet Tregoning -- Preserving the American dream by cost not coercion / Randal O'Toole -- Section 2: Transportation -- Ten keys To walkable communities / Daniel Burden -- The price of parking on great streets / Donald C. Shoup -- The pricing revolution on the roads / Peter Samuel -- How temporal use of streets can be a catalyst for change / Kenneth Kruckemeyer -- Making TODs work: lessons from Portland's Orenco Station / Michael Mehaffy -- Section Three: Urban Design -- Planning for the public realm / Alex Garvin -- Making better places: ten city design resolutions / Jeff Speck -- Principles essential to the renewal of architecture / Andrés Duany -- Why new urbanism fails / Christopher DeWolfe -- Urban parks: innovate or stagnate / Fred Kent -- Section Four: Disaster Planning -- Recovering New Orleans / Thomas J. Campanella -- The end of tall buildings / James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros -- Fortifying America: planning for fear / Edward J. Blakely -- Planning for post-disaster recovery / Robert B. Olshansky -- Section Five: Society and Planning -- Is gentrification really a threat? / John Norquist -- Gentrification reality tour: neither benign nor benevolent / Charles Shaw -- Is Kelo good for urban planning? / Samuel R. Staley -- Bring schools back into walkable neighborhoods / Constance E. Beaumont -- The Lone Mountain Compact: a debate on Libertarian planning principles / C. Kenneth Orski, G.B. Arrington, Patrick Condon, and John H. Hooker
Summary Planetizen's Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning brings together a wide range of editorial and discussion topics, coupled with commentary and overviews to create an enlightening record of the continuously evolving philosophy of building and managing cities
Notes Includes index
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Subject Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth
City planning -- United States
Regional planning -- United States
Mixed-use developments -- United States
Sustainable development -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
Cities and towns -- Growth
City planning
Mixed-use developments
Regional planning
Sustainable development
Stadtplanung
Ciutats -- Estats Units d'Amèrica.
Urbanisme -- Estats Units d'Amèrica.
Ordenació del territori -- Estats Units d'Amèrica.
Desenvolupament sostenible -- Estats Units d'Amèrica.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
Author Chavan, Abhijeet.
Peralta, Christian.
Steins, Christopher.
LC no. 2006100958
ISBN 9781435664043
1435664043
9781597269247
1597269247