Readings in planning theory / edited by Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein. - Second edition. - x, 475 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory -- Foundations of Twentieth-Century Planning Theory -- Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier -- The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning -- Planning: Justifications and Critiques -- Arguments For and Against Planning -- Planning the Capitalist City -- Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U.S. Planning -- Authoritarian High Modernism -- Making Space: Planning as a Mode of Thought -- Planning Types -- New Directions in Planning Theory -- The Science of "Muddling Through" -- Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning -- Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development -- The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation -- Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies -- What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases -- Community and Consensus: Reality and Fantasy in Planning -- Popular Planning: Coin Street, London -- Rationality and Power -- Race, Gender, and City Planning -- City Life and Difference -- Educating Planners: Unified Diversity for Social Action -- Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie -- Towards Cosmopolis: Utopia as Construction Site -- Ethics, the Environment, and Conflicting Priorities -- APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories -- Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation -- Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Pt. III. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Pt. IV. 14. 15. 16. 17. Pt. V. 18. 19. 20. 21. Pt. VI. 22. 23. 24.

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