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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452587203321

Titolo

Comparative planning cultures / / edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-429-23878-9

0-203-82650-7

1-283-84350-1

1-136-79458-1

Descrizione fisica

xxiv, 415 p. : ill., maps

Altri autori (Persone)

SanyalBishwapriya

Disciplina

307.1/2

Soggetti

Regional planning

City planning

Social policy

Central planning

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers submitted to a semester-long symposium organized by the editor at MIT in Spring 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-401) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Hybrid planning cultures : and the search for the global cultural commons / Bishwapriya Sanyal -- 2. Planning cultures in transition / John Friedmann -- 3. Space of flows, space of places : materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age / Manuel Castells -- 4. Planning culture in Iran : centralization and decentralization and local governance in the twentieth century (the case for uban management and planning) / Kian Tajbakhsh -- 5. Modernity confronts tradition : the professional planner and local corporatism in the rebuilding of China's cities / Michael Leaf -- 6. Planning cultures in two Chinese transitional cities : Hong Kong and Shenzhen / Mee Kam Ng -- 7. Understanding planning cultures: the Kolkata paradox / Tridip Banerjee -- 8. Does planning culture matter? : Dutch and American models in Indonesian urban transformations / Robert Cowherd -- 9. Contending planning cultures and the urban built environment in Mexico City / Diane E. Davis -- 10. The developmental state and the extreme narrowness of the public realm : the 20th century evolution of Japanese



planning culture / Andre Soreneon -- 11. The nature of difference : traditions of law and government and their effects on planning in Britain and France / Philip Booth -- 12. The Netherlands : a culture with a soft spot for planning / Andreas Faludi -- 13. Picking the paradoxes : an historical anatomy of Australian planning cultures / Leonie Sandercock -- 14. U.S. planning culture under pressure : major elements endure and flourish in the face of crises / Eugenie L. Birch.