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Planetizen contemporary debates in urban planning
- Title
- Planetizen contemporary debates in urban planning / edited by Abhijeet Chavan, Christian Peralta, Christopher Steins.
- Publication
- Washington : Island Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xvii, 183 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
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- Includes index.
- Contents
- Sect. 1. Sprawl vs. smart growth -- Ch. 1.1. A tipping point - but now the hard part / Anthony Flint -- Ch. 1.2. The argument against smart growth / Wendell Cox -- Ch. 1.3. Prescription for urban sprawl : adapting smart growth strategies to a big city / Michael Woo -- Ch. 1.4. How we pay for growth / William Fulton -- Ch. 1.5. What is the new suburbanism? / Joel Kotkin -- Ch. 1.6. Preserving the American dream by cost, not coercion / Randal O'toole -- Ch. 1.7. Zoning in a time warp :the coming "oversupply" of single-family homes / Harriet Tregoning -- Sect. 2. Transportation -- Ch. 2.1. Ten keys to walkable communities / Dan Burden -- Ch. 2.2. The price of parking on great streets / Donald C. Shoup -- Ch. 2.3. The pricing revolution on the roads / Peter Samuel -- Ch. 2.4. A celebration of independence : how temporal use of streets can be a catalyst for change / Kenneth E. Kruckemeyer -- Ch. 2.5. Making TODs work : lessons from Portland's Orenco Station / Michael Mehaffy -- Sect. 3. Urban design -- Ch. 3.1. Planning for the public realm / Alexander Garvin -- Ch. 3.2. Making better places :ten city design resolutions / Jeff Speck -- Ch. 3.3. Principles essential to the renewal of architecture / Andres Duany -- Ch. 3.4. Why new urbanism fails / Christopher Dewolf -- Ch. 3.5. Urban parks : innovate or stagnate / Fred Kent -- Sect. 4. Disaster planning -- Ch. 4.1. Recovering New Orleans / Thomas J. Campanella -- Ch. 4.2. The end of tall buildings / James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros -- Ch. 4.3. Fortifying America : planning for fear / Edward J. Blakely -- Ch. 4.4. Planning for post-disaster recovery / Robert B. Olshansky -- Sect. 5. Society and planning -- Ch. 5.1. Is gentrification really a threat? / John Norquist -- Ch. 5.2. Gentrification reality tour : neither benign nor benevolent / Charles Shaw -- Ch. 5.3. Is Kelo good for urban planning? / Samuel R. Staley -- Ch. 5.4. Bring schools back into walkable neighborhoods / Constance E. Beaumont -- Ch. 5.5. The Lone Mountain Compact : a debate on Libertarian planning principles / C. Kenneth Orski, G. B. Arrington, Patrick Condon and John H. Hooker.
- ISBN
- 9781597261326 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1597261327 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781597261333 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1597261335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006100958
- OCLC
- OCM77333851
- 77333851
- SCSB-9240922
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries