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100			_aFreestone, Robert Ed. _965706
245			_aUrban planning in a changing world : the Twentieth century experience
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c2000
300			_ax,293p.
440			_aStudies in history, planning and the environment Ed. by Anthony Sutcliffe _965708
505			_aContents Contributors IX 1. Learning from planning's histories by Robert Freestone 1 Planning and History 1 The History of Planning 7 Purpose and Structure of this Book 11 Conclusion 15 2. The centenary of modern planning by Peter Hall 20 1898: The Rejection of the Paleotechnic City 21 1923: The Triumph of Vision and the Failure of Practice 23 1948: The Great Postwar Rebuild 26 1973: The Great Shift in Zeitgeist 29 1998: The Search for Sustainable Urban Development 32 Conclusion 36 3. Re-examining the international diffusion of planning by Stephen V Ward 40 International Diffusion as a Historical Theme 41 A Typology of Diffusion 43 Diffusion by Borrowing 45 Diffusion by Imposition 51 Conclusions and Speculations 55 4. Quasi utopias: perfect cities in an imperfect world by Dennis Hardy 61 Imperfect Cities in an Imperfect World 61 Perfect Cities in a Perfect World 64 Perfect Cities in an Imperfect World 68 Utopianism and Town Planning 72 Conclusion 76 5. Learning from twentieth century urban design paradigms: lessons for the early twenty-first century by Jon Lang 78 Twentieth Century Paradigms : Empiricism and Rationalism 79 The Empiricist Paradigms 80 The Rationalist Paradigms 84 Paradigms for Cities and their Precincts 87 The Utility and Limitations of Paradigms 90 Looking Ahead: Paradigms for the Early Twenty-First Century 93 Conclusion 95 6. Rethinking the significance of the city beautiful idea by Gilbert A. Stelter 98 The City as a Work of Art 99 Broadening the Decision-Making Powers of the Public 107 A Theory of the City as an Organism 110 Success and Relevance 113 7. The neighbourhood paradigm: from garden cities to gated communities by Dirk Schubert 118 Decentralization, Urban Reform, and Planned Communities 118 American Experiments in the 1920s and 1930s 121 Neighbourhoods in England 125 The 'Local Group as a Settlement Cell' in Germany 127 Neighbourhoods in Postwar Reconstruction 129 Epilogue and Conclusions 132 8. Planning for social betterment : from standard of living to quality of life by Raphael Fischler 139 The Standardization of Need 141 The Paradox of the Standard of Living 143 The Quality-of-Life Movement 145 Quality of Life in Post-Industrial Society 148 Conclusion 152 9. The paradoxes of anti-sprawl reform by Robert Bruegmann 158 From 'Blight' to 'Sprawl' 158 Aesthetic Objections 160 Efficiency Arguments 163 Equity Arguments 165 Environmental Arguments 167 The Debate becomes International 168 The Anti-Sprawl Coalition 169 Conclusion 170 10. Motor vehicles and the inner city by Jeffry M .Diefendorf 175 Cologne: The Persistence of Arterial Planning 178 Basel : The Rewards of Frustrated Traffic Planning 182 Boston : Constructing and Destructing a Central Artery 187 Conclusion 190 11. Planning and heritage : towards integration by David Hamer 194 The Haussmannite Tradition 194 Rejection of the Victorian City 196 Planners and the Past: Models of Evolution and Change 197 The Reconstruction of Historic City Centres by Dictators 199 The Impacts of the Second World War and the Triumph of Modernism 199 The Reaction against Modernism 201 The Historic District as the Focus for the Convergence of Interests 205 Third World and Post-Colonial Issues 207 Conclusion 208 12. Open space, urban planning and the evolution of the green city by Maurits Van Rooijen 212 Categorizing Urban Open Spaces Historically 213 Common Open Space 214 The Royal Public Garden 214 The Bourgeois Park 216 People's Parks 219 Garden City/New Town 222 Green Town Planning of Tomorrow 224 Conclusion 226 13. Diversity, difference and the multi-layered city by Susan Thompson 230 Global Migration and the Emergence of the Multi-Layered City 231 The Multi-Layered City 233 Planning and the Multi-Layered City 238 Responding to the Multi-Layered-City: Governance in Australia 241 A Way Forward 243 Conclusion 245 14. Global city regions: planning and policy dilemmas in a Neo-Liberal world By Allen J. Scott 249 Setting the Scene : City and Region in the Postwar Era 250 Global City Regions : Form and Function 254 Prospective Planning and Political Agendas for Global City Regions 258 Conclusion 265 15. Is planning history? By Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low 269 The Decay of Planning Values 270 Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and Planning 272 Contemporary Neo- Liberal Planning Reform in Australia 276 Is Planning History? 281 Conclusion 282 Index 285
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