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Title:

The American planning tradition : culture and policy / edited by Robert Fishman.

Publisher:

Distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press,
Distributed by The Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

ix, 328 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

City planning--United States.
Land use, Urban--United States.
Land use--United States--Planning.
Urban renewal--United States.

Other Authors:

Fishman, Robert, 1946-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Part three: Anne Whiston Spirn. Reclaiming common ground: water, neighborhoods, and public places / Robert Fishman -- Part one: Two traditions. Holding the middle ground / John L. Thomas -- The metropolitan tradition in American planning / Robert Fishman -- Part two: The quest for national planning. Federalism and national planning: the nineteenth-century legacy / Michael J. Lacey -- "Watersheds" in regional planning / James L. Wescoat, Jr. -- The National Resources Planning Board and the reconstruction of planning / Alan Brinkley -- Planning environmentalism, and urban poverty: the political failure of national land-use planning legislation, 1970-1975 / Margaret Weir -- Part three: Recreating the "commons": the local experience. Race and renewal in the Cold War South: New Orleans, 1947-1968 / Arnold R. Hirsch -- The capital of good planning: metropolitan Portland since 1970 / Carl J. Abbott -- Local initiative and metropolitan repetition: Chicago, 1972-1990 / Judith A. Martin and Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- Reclaiming common ground: water, neighborhoods, and public places / Anne Whiston Spirn.

ISBN:

9780943875965 (pbk.)
094387596X (pbk.)
9780943875958
0943875951

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42274226

LCCN:

99050614

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)