Planning in the USA : policies, issues, and processes
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Planning in the USA : policies, issues, and processes
Routledge, 1997
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Bibliography: p. [266]-274
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: ISBN 9780415150118
Description
Planning in the USA is a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined and approached. Offering a detailed account of urbanization in the USA, Barry Cullingworth reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the fallibility of experts, and difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions.
Coverage includes:
* Land Use Regulation
* Transport, Housing and Community Development
* Public Attitudes to Planning
* Property Rights
* Environmental Planning and Policies
* Growth Management
* Planning and Governance
Barry Cullingworth's Planning in the USA is an essential book for students and planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems.
Table of Contents
Introduction, PART 1: PLANNING AND GOVERNMENT, 1. The NAture of Planning, 2. Urbanization, 3.Governing and Planning Urban Areas, PART 2: LAND USE REGULATION 4. The Evolution of Zoning, 5. The Institutional and Legal Framework, 6. The Techniques of Zoning, 7.Development Charges, PART 3: QUALITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, 8. Aesthetics, 9. Historic Preservation PART 4: Growth Management, 10. Growth management and Local Government, 11. Urban Growth management and the states, Part 5: Development Issues, 12. Transportation Issues, 13. Housing, 14. Community and Economic Development, PART 6: Environental Planning 15. Environmental Policies, 16. The Limitis of environmental policy, 17. Conclusion, List of Main cases, References, Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780415150125
Description
Planning in the USA is a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. outlining land use, urban planning and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined and approached.
Planning in the USA offers a detailed account of urbanization in the USA. Focussing on policies relating to land use, urban planning and environmental protection, Barry Cullingworth reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the fallibility of experts, and difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions.
Coverage includes:
* Land Use Regulation
* Transport, Housing and Community Development
* Public Attitudes to Planning
* Property Rights
* Environmental Planning and Policies
* Growth Management
* Planning and Governance
Planning problems are seldom easily solved. Barry Cullingworth's Planning in the USA is an essential book for students and planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Planning and government: the nature of planning
- urbanization
- governing and planning urban areas. Part 2 Land use regulation: the evolution of zoning
- the institutional and legal framework
- the techniques of zoning
- development charges. Part 3 Quality of the environment: aesthetics
- historic preservation. Part 4 Growth management: growth management and local government
- urban growth management and the states. Part 5 Development issues: transportation issues
- housing
- community and economic development. Part 6 Environental planning: environmental policies
- the limits of environmental policy.
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