Contemporary Urban Planning

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

PART 1 THE BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTEMPORARY PLANNING

 1 An Overview

The Need for Planning

The Specific Concerns of Planning

Who Are the Planners?

Professional Organizations

Satisfactions and Discontents

Useful Abilities

The Plan of This Book

Note

 

2 The Urbanization of America

Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century

Urban Trends in the Twentieth Century

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

3 The History of Planning: Part I

Colonial America

Limited Means and Growing Problems

The Pressure for Reform

The Birth of Modern City Planning

The Public Control of Private Property

The Emergence of Regional and State Planning

Grander Visions

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

4 The History of Planning: Part II

Planning and the Great Depression

The Postwar Period

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

PART 2 THE STRUCTURE AND PRACTICE OF CONTEMPORARY PLANNING

 5 The Legal Basis of Planning

The Constitutional Framework

Public Control over Private Property

The Rights of Nonresidents

The Fight over Eminent Domain

State-Enabling Legislation

The Federal Role

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

6 Planning and Politics

Why Is Planning Political?

Planners and Power

The Fragmentation of Power

Styles of Planning

How Planning Agencies Are Organized

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

7 The Social Issues

The Social Issues in Planning for Housing

Other Issues

Who Does Social Planning?

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

8 The Comprehensive Plan

The Goals of Comprehensive Planning

The Comprehensive Planning Process

How Effective Are Comprehensive Plans?

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

9 The Tools of Land-Use Planning

Public Capital Investment

Land-Use Controls

Making Zoning More Flexible

Form-Based Zoning

Other Types of Local Land-Use Controls

Combining Capital Investment and Land-Use Controls

Forces Beyond Local Control

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

PART 3 FIELDS OF PLANNING

10 Urban Design

What Is Urban Design?

The Urban Design Process

What Is Good Urban Design?

Replanning Suburbia: The Neotraditionalists

Edge City

Visions of the City of the Future

Coming to Terms with the Automobile

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

11 Urban Renewal and Community Development

Urban Renewal

Community Development

The Housing Question

Planning for Housing

The Housing Bubble and the Problem of Abandonment

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

12 Transportation Planning

Recent Trends in Urban Transportation

Paying for Transportation

Transportation Planning and Land Use

The Transportation Planning Process

Changes in the Federal Role

Fine-Tuning the System

The Growing Role of Tolls and Privatization

Smart Highways, Intelligent Vehicles, and New Machines

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

13 Economic Development Planning

Historic Roots

Perspectives on Local Economic Development

State Economic Development Efforts

Local Economic Development Programs

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

14 Growth Management, Smart Growth, and Sustainable Development

The Origins of Growth Management

Winners and Losers in Growth Management

A Sampling of Local Growth Management Programs

State-Level Growth Management

Growth Management–Pro or Con?

The Challenge of Smart Growth

Planning for Sustainability

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

15 Environmental and Energy Planning

The Environmental Planning Problem

Environmental Progress at the National Level

The Question of Global Climate Change

Environmental Policy During the Bush and Obama Administration

The Intergovernment Context of Environmental Planning

Economic and Political Issues in Environmental Planning

Local Environmental Planning

An Example of Environmental Planning

Energy Planning

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

16 Planning for Metropolitan Regions

The Political Problem

A Brief History of Metropolitan-Area Planning

Minneapolis—St. Paul: A Tale of Two Cities

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

The Atlanta Regional Commission

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

PART 4 LARGER QUESTIONS

17 National Planning in the United States

Is There National Planning in the United States?

The Pattern of Land Settlement

Establishing the Rail Network

Water and the West

Systematic Regional Planning

The Interstate Highway System

Financing the Suburbs

Land Management

What’s Next?

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

18 Planning in Other Nations

Planning in Western Europe

Planning in Eastern Europe

Planning in the Third World

A Look Ahead

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

19 Planning Theory

Is Theory Necessary?

A Distinction Between Public and Private Planning

The Process of Planning

Advocacy Planning

Planning from Right and Left

Summary

Notes

Selected Bibliography

 

Index