The art of planning : selected essays of Harvey S. Perloff
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The art of planning : selected essays of Harvey S. Perloff
（Environment, development, and public policy, . Cities and development）
Plenum Press, c1985
Available at 7 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 353-357
Includes index
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Description
The work of Harvey S. Perloff stands as a landmark in the evolution of Anglo American planning doctrine. It is impossible to fully capture the essence of the published work in a paragraph, page, or even an entire essay. Yet its highpoints can be identified. His work was innovative, reformist, comprehensive, and ori ented toward the future. In emphasizing the greater importance of people com pared to things, Perloff repeatedly prodded planners to be concerned with human needs and values. He was critical of the past. But inasmuch as he de voted more effort to envisioning what could lie ahead than in recalling the past, his work was markedly optimistic. He once admitted in writing to his "built-in weakness for expecting rational, socially oriented solutions ultimately to win out, no matter what the objective situation seems to be. " To some the expecta tion may be seen as naive; to others, as a faith in the wisdom of humankind to take the best course. However received, Perloff's optimism served as a powerful stimulant to keep moving ahead for the best that would come of it. Institutions and the ways they should be shaped and reshaped were of central concern, for institutions (though he rarely used the term) were the in struments through which "knowledge was translated into action.
Table of Contents
I Revitalizing Central Cities.- 1. New Towns Intown.- 2. New Towns Intown in a National New-Communities Program.- 3. The Central City in the Postindustrial Age.- 4. Using the Arts to Improve Life in the City.- II Urban and Metropolitan Planning and Policy.- 5. A Framework for Dealing with the Urban Environment.- 6. Urban Planning and the Quality of the Urban Environment.- 7. National Urban Policy: Stage I: Building the Foundation.- 8. Alternatives for Future Urban Land Policy (with Marion Clawson).- III Regional Planning and Analysis.- 9. Puerto Rico’s Economic Future: Public Services and Social Priorities.- 10. National Planning and Multinational Planning under the Alliance for Progress (with Raúl Saez).- 11. Lagging Sectors and Regions of the American Economy.- 12. Natural Resource Endowment and Regional Economic Growth (with Lowdon Wingo).- 13. Relative Regional Economic Growth: An Approach to Regional Accounts.- 14. Key Features of Regional Planning.- IV Fiscal Policy and Planning.- 15. Budgetary Symbolism and Fiscal Planning.- 16. Fiscal Policy at the State and Local Levels.- V Planning Education.- 17. Education of City Planners: Past and Present.- 18. The Evolution of Planning Education.- VI Stages in a Career in Planning: An Autobiographical Fragment.- VI Stages in a Career in Planning: An Autobiographical Fragment.
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