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Community planning
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ISBN: 1597265926 9781597265928 9781597265522 1597265527 9781597265539 1597265535 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, DC Island Press

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This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names - especially master plan or general plan - the type of plan described here is the predominant form of general governmental planning in the U.S. Although many government agencies make plans for their own programs or facilities, the comprehensive plan is the only planning document that considers multiple programs and that accounts for activities on all land located within the planning area, including both public and private property. Written by a former president of the American Planning Association, Community Planning is thorough, specific, and timely. It addresses such important contemporary issues as sustainability, walkable communities, the role of urban design in public safety, changes in housing needs for a changing population, and multi-modal transportation planning. Unlike competing books, it addresses all of these topics in the context of the local comprehensive plan. There is a broad audience for this book: planning students, practicing planners, and individual citizens who want to better understand local planning and land use controls. Boxes at the end of each chapter explain how professional planners and individual citizens, respectively, typically engage the issues addressed in the chapter. For all readers, Community Planning provides a pragmatic view of the comprehensive plan, clearly explained by a respected authority.


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Community architect : the life and vision of Clarence S. Stein
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ISBN: 1501706144 9781501706141 9781501702464 1501702467 1501706691 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press,

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Clarence S. Stein (1882-1975) was an architect, housing visionary, regionalist, policymaker, and colleague of some of the most influential public figures of the early to mid-twentieth century, including Lewis Mumford and Benton MacKaye. Kristin E. Larsen's biography of Stein comprehensively examines his built and unbuilt projects and his intellectual legacy as a proponent of the "garden city" for a modern age. This examination of Stein's life and legacy focuses on four critical themes: his collaborative ethic in envisioning policy, design, and development solutions; promotion and implementation of "investment housing;" his revolutionary approach to community design, as epitomized in the Radburn Idea; and his advocacy of communitarian regionalism. His cutting-edge projects such as Sunnyside Gardens in New York City; Baldwin Hills Village in Los Angeles; and Radburn, New Jersey, his "town for the motor age," continue to inspire community designers and planners in the United States and around the world.Stein was among the first architects to integrate new design solutions and support facilities into large-scale projects intended primarily to house working-class people, and he was a cofounder of the Regional Planning Association of America. As a planner, designer, and, at times, financier of new housing developments, Stein wrestled with the challenges of creating what today we would term "livable," "walkable," and "green" communities during the ascendency of the automobile. He managed these challenges by partnering private capital with government funding, as well as by collaborating with colleagues in planning, architecture, real estate, and politics.

Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes : the correspondence
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ISBN: 0415119065 0415119073 1306697891 0415756480 1134813783 0203430476 1134813791 Year: 1995 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


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The garden city utopia: a critical biography of Ebenezer Howard
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ISBN: 1349190357 1349190330 0333423755 Year: 1988 Publisher: London Macmillan

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Ebenezer Howard is recognised as a pioneer of town planning throughout the industrialised world; Britain's new towns, deriving from the garden cities he founded, are his monument. But Howard was more than a town planner. He was first and foremost a social reformer, and his garden city was intended to be merely the first step towards a new social and industrial order based on common ownership of land. This is the first comprehensive study of Howard's theories, which the author traces back to their origins in English puritan dissent and forward to Howard's attempt to build his new society in microcosm at Letchworth and Welwyn.

Biopolis : Patrick Geddes and the city of life
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ISBN: 0262232111 0262285983 1423725271 9780262285988 9781423725275 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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"The Scottish urbanist and biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is perhaps best known for introducing the concept of the "region" to architecture and planning. At the turn of the twentieth century, he was one of the strongest advocates of town planning and an active participant in debates about the future of the city. He was arguably the first planner to recognize the importance of historic city centers, and his renewal work in Edinburgh's Old Town is visible and impressive to this day." "Geddes's famous analytical triad - place, work, and folk, corresponding to the geographical, historical, and spiritual aspects of the city - provides the basic structure of this examination of his urban theory. Volker Welter examines Geddes's ideas in the light of nineteenth-century biology - in which Geddes received his academic training - showing Geddes's use of biological concepts to be far more sophisticated than popular images of the city as an organic entity. His urbanism was informed by his lifelong interest in the theory of evolution and in ecology, cutting-edge areas in the late nineteenth century. Balancing Geddes's biological thought is his interest in the historical Greek concept of the polis, usually translated as city-state but implying a view of the city as a cultural and spiritual phenomenon." "Although Geddes's work was far-ranging, the city provided the unifying focus of nearly all of his theoretical and practical work. Throughout the book, Welter relates Geddes's theory of the city to contemporary European debates about architecture and urbanism."--Jacket.


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Stedebouw en gemeenschap : Louis Van der Swaelmen (1883-1929), bezieler van de moderne beweging in België
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ISBN: 2870091095 9782870091098 Year: 1979 Volume: vol *64 Publisher: Brussel Mardaga

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Louis van der Swaelmen, inspirateur du mouvement moderniste en Belgique dans les années vingt, joua aussi un rôle de premier plan dans la naissance et l'élaboration des cités-jardins de son pays. Cette biographie est organisée en trois parties. La première est strictement historique. La seconde est consacrée à ses activités de peintre, d'architecte-paysagiste et d'urbaniste. La troisième propose quelques extraits d'écrits et de lettres, une liste chronologique de ses oeuvres et une autres de ses écrits. L'ouvrage contient en outre une bibliographie et un index.

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Environmental planning --- ruimtelijke ordening --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- Swaelmen, van der, Louis --- urban development --- Modernist --- Architecture --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Geschiedenis van de nieuwste tijden --- Histoire contemporaine --- Maatschappij --- Société --- Stedenbouw --- Urbanisme --- Van der Swaelmen, L. --- Architecture and society --- City planners --- Architecture et société --- Urbanistes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Swaelmen, Louis van der, --- Swaelmen, L., van der --- Swaelmen, L. van der --- België --- Cité jardin --- Jardin --- Logement social --- Mouvement moderne --- Ecrit d'architecte --- Paysagisme --- Paysagiste --- Reconstruction --- Van Der Swaelmen, Louis-Martin --- Belgique --- Van De Velde, Henry, --- Louis Van der Swaelmen 1883-1939 (° Nieuwpoort, B.) --- Architectuur ; België ; 1900-1929 ; Louis Van der Swaelmen --- 711.4 --- Belgische architecten --- -Landschapsarchitectuur ; stedenbouw ; België ; tuinwijken --- -Moderne Beweging --- 72.07 --- #TCON:ICOMOS(2) --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Town planners --- Urbanists --- Architects --- Planners --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Louis Van der Swaelmen 1883-1929 (° Nieuwpoort, B.) --- 711<493> --- Moderne Beweging --- Landschapsarchitectuur ; stedenbouw ; België ; tuinwijken --- Modernisme --- #BIBC:bibl.Lemaire R.M. --- 72(493) --- -City planners --- -Town planners --- Architectuur ; België --- Swaelmen, Louis van der --- Biography. --- -Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- -711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Architecture et société --- Van der Swaelmen, Louis --- Der Swaelmen, Louis van --- #BIBC:bibl.Lemaire R.M --- Van De Velde, Henry --- City planning. --- 790 --- Belgique architecture --- urbanisme --- kunstenaars --- artistes --- City planners - Belgium - Biography --- Architecture and society - Belgium --- Swaelmen, Louis van der, - 1883-1929 --- architects --- Belgium --- Bruxelles (belgique) --- Cités-jardins --- Architectes paysagistes --- Ecrits d'artistes --- 19e siècle --- 20 siècle --- Van der swaelent, louis(1883-1929) --- Builtuo areas --- Economic lot size --- Modern style --- Aspect social


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Stalinist City Planning
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ISBN: 1442662409 9781442662407 1442665211 9781442645349 1442645342 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto

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"Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii Novgorod, where planners struggled to accommodate the expectations of a Stalinizing state without sacrificing professional authority and power. Bridging institutional and cultural history, the book brings together a variety of elements of socialism as enacted by planners on a competitive urban stage, such as scientific debate, the crafting of symbolic landscapes, and state campaigns for the development of cultured cities and people. By examining how planners and other urban inhabitants experienced, lived, and struggled with socialism and Stalinism, DeHaan offers readers a much broader, more complex picture of planning and planners than has been revealed to date."--Jacket.

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City planning --- City planners --- Architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Town planners --- Urbanists --- Architects --- Planners --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- History --- Political aspects --- Design and construction --- Government policy --- Management --- Stalin, Joseph, --- Influence. --- Architecture, Primitive --- Sowjetunion. --- UdSSR --- SSSR --- Republik-Republik Kesatuan Soviet Sosialis --- Sojuz Sovetskich Socialističeskich Respublik --- Union der Sozialistischen Sowjet-Republiken --- Union der SSR --- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics --- USSR --- Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques --- URSS --- Russland --- Russia --- Padomju Sociālistiko Republiku Savienība --- PSRS --- SSṘM --- ZSSR --- TSRS --- Savez Sovjetskih Socijalističkih Republika --- Soviet Union --- SSHM --- Sojuz Radjans'kich Sozialističnich Respublik --- SRSR --- Şyra Sosjalist Cumhyrijjẹtlẹri Ittifakĭ --- Šura Socialist Gümhurietleri Ittipaky --- Šura Sosyalist Ǧümhuriyetleri Ittifaqï --- SSCB --- Союз Советских Социалистических Республик --- СССР --- 1923-25.12.1991 --- Djougatchvili, Iossif Vissarionovitch, --- Джугашвили, Иосиф Виссарионович, --- Dzhugashvili, Iosif Vissarionovich, --- Koba, --- Shih-tʻai-lin, --- Sidalin, --- Ssu-ta-lin, --- Stalin, Giuseppe, --- Сталин, И. В. --- Stalin, I. V. --- Сталин, Иосиф, --- Stalin, Iosif, --- Сталин, К., --- Stalin, K., --- Staline, --- Staline, Joseph, --- Staljin, J. V., --- Sutārin, --- Soselo, --- Stalini, Ioseb Besarionis że, --- Sṭalin, Y. Ṿ., --- Sṭalin, Y., --- Stalin, Josef, --- Stalin, Josef Vissarionovich, --- סטאלין, יאסיף, --- סטאלין, י. --- סטאלין, י. וו --- סטאלין, י. װ. --- סטאלין, י., --- סטלין, יוסיף ויסאריונוביץ׳, --- סטלין, יוסף --- 斯大林, --- Stalin, Jossif Vissarionovitš, --- Sztálin, Joszif, --- Istālīn, Yūsīf Vīsāryūnūvīch, --- استالين، يوسيف ويساريونووتج, --- Σταλιν, Ιωσηφ, --- Stalin, Ιōsēph, --- Jughashvili, Ioseb, --- Jughashvili, Ioseb Vissarionovich, --- Jughashvili, Koba, --- Sojuz Sovetskich Socialističeskich Respublik --- Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques --- Padomju Sociālistiko Republiku Savienība --- SSṘM --- Savez Sovjetskih Socijalističkih Republika --- Sojuz Radjans'kich Sozialističnich Respublik --- Şyra Sosjalist Cumhyrijjẹtlẹri Ittifakĭ --- Šura Socialist Gümhurietleri Ittipaky --- Šura Sosyalist Ǧümhuriyetleri Ittifaqï

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