Urban and regional planning reader / edited by Eugenie L.Birch

Introduction (EUGENIE L. BIRCH) PART 1. THE WORLD OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Introduction 1. "The State of the World's Cities" (JAY H. MOOR and RASNA WARAH) 2. "Megaforces Shaping the Future of the Nation's Cities" (U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT) 3. "Planning, Urban Revitalization and Inner City: An Exploration of Structural Racism" (CATHERINE L. ROSS and NANCEY GREEN LEIGH) 4. "Pluralistic Planning for Multicultural Cities" (MOHAMMAD A. QADEER) 5. "Suburbia: Homeland of the American Future" (JOEL KOTKIN) 6. "The New Suburban Typology" (MYRON ORFIELD) PART 2. HISTORY AND THEORY OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Introduction 7. "Modernism and Early Urban Planning" (RICHARD T. LEGATES and FREDERIC STOUT) 8. "Reflections and Research on the U.S. Experience" (MICHAEL B. TEITZ) 9. "Practitioners and the Art of Planning" (EUGENIE L. BIRCH) 10. "The Shapes of Suburbia" (DOLORES HAYDEN) 11. "Ramapo at Thirty, The Changing Role of the Plan in Land Use Regulation" (EDWARD J. SULLIVAN and MATTHEW J. MICHEL) 12. "Anglo-American Town Planning Theory Since 1945: Three Significant Developments But No Paradigm Shifts" (NIGEL TAYLOR) 13. "New Directions in Planning Theory" (SUSAN FAINSTEIN) PART 3. CLASSICS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Introduction 14. "Dimensions of Performance" (KEVIN LYNCH) 15. "Downtown is for People" (JANE JACOBS) 16. "Home Remedies for Urban Cancer" (LEWIS MUMFORD) 17. "The Master Plan, An Impermanent Constitution" (CHARLES HAAR) 18. "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" (PAUL DAVIDOFF) 19. "The Metropolitan Region" (IAN MCHARG) 20. "Paying for the Plan" (ROBERT D. YARO and TONY HISS) PART 4. THE PLAN: ITS ORIGINS AND CONTEMPORARY USES Introduction 21. "Twentieth Century Land Use Planning, A Stalwart Family Tree" (EDWARD J. KAISER and DAVID R. GODSCHALK) 22. "Regionalism" (OLIVER GILLHAM) 23. "Does Planning Need the Plan?" (MICHAEL NEUMAN) 24. "How Plans Work" (LEWIS D. HOPKINS) 25. "The Land Planning Arena" (EDWARD J. KAISER, DAVID R. GODSCHALK and F. STUART CHAPIN) 26. "Shaping Cities Through Development Regulations" (JONATHAN BARNETT) PART 5. PLANNING PRACTICE AND METHODS Introduction 27. "Introduction: Planning for People and Places" (CHARLES J. HOCH, LINDA C. DALTON and FRANK S.SO) 28. "Planning Environments" (FRANK S. SO and JUDITH GETZELS) 29. "A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning...Ingredients of Success" (ALEXANDER GARVIN) 30. "Demographic Futures as a Guide to Planning California Latinos and the Compact City" (DOWELL MYERS) 31. "Geographic Information Systems" (Ann-Margaret Esnard, Nancy Sappington and Milton R. Ospina) 32. "The Future of Public Participation" (BARBARA FAGA) 33. "Introduction" (CAROL D. BARRETT) PART 6. KEY TOPICS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Introduction 34. "Implementing the Solutions, Measures for Achieving Intermodal Balance" (VUKAN UCHIC) 35. "Hopeful Signs Urban Revitalization in the 21st Century" (EUGENIE L. BIRCH) 36. "Sprawl and the Tyranny of Easy Development Decisions" (WILLIAM H. LUCY and DAVID L. PHILLIPS) 37. "How To Make a Town" (ANDRES DUANY, ELIZABETH PLANTER-ZYBERK and JEFF SPECK) 38. "Environmental Planning" (THOMAS L. DANIELS and KATHERINE DANIELS) 39. "Planning Metropolitan Regions" (GARY HACK) PART 7. EMERGING ISSUES IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Introduction 40. "The Promise of Urban Growth" (UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND) 41. "Land Use and Urban Form: Planning Compact Cities" (TIMOTHY BEATLEY) 42. "Cities Under Siege, Urban Planning and the Threat of Infectious Diseases" (RICHARD A. MATTHEW and BRYAN MCDONALD) 43. "22@Barcelona: A New District for the Creative Economy" (MIQUEL BARCELO) 44. "The Changing Politics of Urban Mega- Projects" (ALAN ALTSCHULER and DAVID LUBEROFF) 45. "Beyond Megalopolis: Exploring America's New `Megapolitan' Geography" (ROBERT LANG and DAWN DHAVALE) 46. "The spatial organization of cities: Deliberate outcome or unforeseen consequence?" (ALAIN BERTAUD)

llluminates the planning of cities and metropolitan areas. This title provides sections that include writings with a focus on the distribution of space and place, essays on housing, transportation design, environment, community development, the effects of cultural diversity and information technology on land use and other topics.