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Architecture de spectacle --- Théâtre --- Opéra --- Bâtiment culturel --- Sydney --- Opera House

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Great Planning Disasters appears as ensational - even a sensationalist - title. But it means what it says. This book deals with a series of great planning decisions - ones costing tens or hundreds or even thousands of millions of pounds or dollars. It analyses the central processes of planning that were involved. And it isolates those which, in the view of many informed people, were disasters either because they were abandoned after much effort, or because they went ahead and were widely criticized as major mistakes. Among the first group-negative disasters - the book looks at London's third airport and the abandoned London motorways. Among the many examples of positive disasters it considers Concorde, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco, and the Sydney Opera House. Lastly it probes two cases of near-disasters that became relative successes: California's plan for new university campuses, and Britain's plans for a new national library in London. From these case studies, in the second part of the book Peter Hall seeks to distil some general lessons. He looks at the role of key actors in the planning process: at community activists, at professional bureaucrats, at the politicians. His analysis, which synthesizes a large body of recent research in politics and related fields of social science, is often unflattering but always illuminating. Finally, drawing again on research-in fields as diverse as long-term future forecasting, welfare economics and ethical philosophy - he offers some tentativesuggestions for improved decision-making in the future.

Economic geography --- City planning --- -Planning --- -711 --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Management --- Organization --- 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 --- Case studies --- Ruimtelijke ordening. Planologie. Stedebouw --- Government policy --- 711 Ruimtelijke ordening. Planologie. Stedebouw --- 711 --- Planification urbaine --- Sydney --- Londres --- Stadsplanning ; inplanting nieuwe architectuur --- Architectuur en politiek --- Architectuurkritiek ; 2de helft 20ste eeuw --- 711.4(A) --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; denken over de stedenbouw