This volume represents the most current thinking on the course and direction of future planning. The collection of invited papers frorri the field's foremost experts are grouped by four key areas:   Physical Planning In Change: The Role of Environmental Planning  Social Planning In Change: Practical Applications of Social Sensitivity   Public Policy Planning In Change: Macroplannlng versus Local Control   Economic Planning In Change: National Planning—Demand versus Supply Emphases   The concepts and practices embodied here here are key inputs for the planning practitioner and the academic.

Planning Theory in the 1980s: A Search for Future Directions

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Rutgers Univ Center for Urban

Are there potentials in central city revitalization? What role will the federal government play in determining future retail locational choices? Shopping center development has never been more popular—or more hazardous than it is today. Retail distribution in the United States has greater efficiency than anywhere else in the world, a tribute to the adaptability and rationalization of systems which have characterized the field. The pressures of the future, however, require greater exertion if they are to be adequately met. The industry drive to the new "middle markets" may change the face of small city America—or it may lead to a blind alley. As central cities, aided by EDA (Economic Development Administration) and UDAG (Urban Development Action Grant), gird up for revitalization in the face of reduced real buying power, these issues take on increased vigor. A whole new legal fabric is evolving in the development of major commercial facilities. Does it mark the path of the future—or is it an ineffectual last gasp effort to reshape the basic overwhelming trend lines of American life? How do we get a grasp on these parameters? Whether city planner, economic or marketing consultant, investor, or developer—much of our future depends on the answers. The authorities brought together for these specially sponsored papers are the best in the business—and provide key insights into this dynamic field. Demographics and consumer response that challenge marketing and planning professionals are also included.

Shopping Centers: United States of America

Business & Money

Economics

Illustrated Book of Development Definitions

Moskowitz, Harvey S.

Book by Listokin, David, Beaton, W. Patrick

Revitalizing the Older Suburb

Listokin, David

The Cityis the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged, with excellent woodcut illustrations, more than three thousand quotations—epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical observations—on urban life from antiquity until the present. These quotes are drawn from the written and spoken words of more than one thousand writers throughout history. This volume, with contributions from speakers, poets, song writers, politicians philosophers, scientists, religious leaders, historians, social scientists, humorists, architects, journalists, and travelers from and to many lands is designed to be used by writers, speechmakers, students, and scholars on cities and urban life. The City contains an author index, and a subject index ranging from anti-urbanism to zoning codes. Clapp’s text is noteworthy for its sharp contrasts of urban and rural life and the urbanization process in different historical times and geographical areas. The work features a guide to cities index ranging from Accra to Zurich. The scope of the book is international, including entries on most major and not a few lesser cities of the world. These include historical commentaries ranging from writings at the beginning of recorded history to contemporary observations on urban planning and styles. The illustrations and designs prepared by Rene Kammeyer provide excellent and imaginative guides to the text. The work is noteworthy for its pleasures and as well insights.

The City, a Dictionary of Quotable Thought on Cities and Urban Life

Clapp, James A.

Housing Receivership and Self-Help Neighborhood Revitalization

Allewelt, Lizabeth

Nemeth, James J.

The growth of the suburbs has changed the face of America. Every aspect of life has been affected, including the daily newspaper.  The Press and the Suburbs examines the phenomenon of suburban journalism by telling the story of the twenty-six daily newspapers of New Jersey. Is suburban journalism good journalism? Is it possible to judge newspapers the way reviewers rate restaurants, with three stars going to the best? Sachsman and Sloat answer these questions and in doing so make a significant contribution to the study of newspapers in America.

The Press and the Suburbs: The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey

Sachsman, David B.

Sloat, Warren

Cities throughout the United States are experiencing a dramatic rise in the number of homeless persons. Who are the homeless? How many homeless persons are there in America? What policies and programs for the homeless have and should be implemented at the federal, state and local levels?  This collection of articles, reports and case studies brings together a variety of perspectives to help answer these questions. The materials include discussions on the political ramifications of the issue, the changing mass media images, and the many sources of homelessness. Estimates by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and others of the number of homeless persons are presented. Three specific population subgroups—the traditional Skid Row population, the deinstitutionalized mentally ill, and homeless women and children—are examined in detail.  Finally, case studies and resource materials about existing and proposed policies and programs are included as models for local and state action. This collection brings together a diverse group of authors including Kim Hopper, Chester Hartman, Donald Bogue, Thomas J. Main, H. Richard Lamb, Patricia Cayo Sexton, and other experts from the fields of Anthropology, Planning, Political Science, Psychiatry, Sociology, and Social Work. Not only is the book of vital interest to state and local officials, it is well suited to be a textbook in urban planning, sociology, and policy analysis courses examining current social issues.  I. Images of the homeless                          II. Background and politics                        III. The importance of numbers                    IV. Who are the homeless and why?  V. Solutions to the problem  VI. Resources

Housing the Homeless

Erickson, Jon

Politics & Government

The Supreme Court decision that property owners may be entitled to compensation for government regulations that deprive them of reasonable use of their property has thrown the land-use field into a state of turmoil. Will municipal land-use ordinances be found excessive? What regulations can be considered a reasonable exercise of police power for public health, safety, and welfare? Will municipalities be liable for compensation to property owners if development is restricted? How can municipalities and developers plan in the wake of this decision? Ordinance provisions cover components of subdivision regulation: general provisions, definitions, administration, procedure, design and improvements, off-tract improvements, and documents to be submitted. The Subdivision and Site Plan Handbookprovides a narrative on the background, rationale, and intent of each requirement accompanying the model ordinance; gives an overview of the history of subdivision regulation in the United States; traces the evolution of land-use regulation through various stages; and presents the legal context for present-day regulation. The book has been designed for use by government administrators, developers, planners, attorneys, and others interested in land-use regulation. The model ordinance represents the most current thinking about land use and site control and responds to questions raised by the Supreme Court decision. David Listokin and Carole Walker’s analyses are flexible, efficient, responsive to local conditions, and balance regulatory costs and benefits. This is a definitive and invaluable resource!

The Subdivision and Site Plan Handbook

Walker, Carole

The twentieth century saw a grand procession of promises for the city. The great modern architect Le Corbusier dictated cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, Frank Lloyd proposed cities with no downtown, cities spread across the countryside with each family on its homestead, and skyscraper utopians of the 1920s promised paradise on the one-hundredth floor with our airplane hangared next door. One thing was sure: the city of tomorrow would put to shame the city of yesterday. Another thing was certain, too: we would be happier, more peaceful (and productive) people. Here is Le Corbusier: "Free, man tends to geometry." And if we followed the "radiant harmony" of his geometry, the world’s cities could become "irresistible forces stimulating collective enthusiasm, collective action, and general joy and pride, and inconsequence individual happiness everywhere . . . the modern world would emerge . . . and would beam around, powerful, happy, believing." There were others who promised deliverance through their brands of architecture: the right angle, the curvilinear road in the park, the tower of glass. Each fervently preached that his was the magic geometry that, like tumblers on a lock, would open the way to the good life. Cosmopolis is a pattern book of expectations, generously illustrated with a gathering of plans from the City Beautiful to the Italian Futurists, The Cité Industrielle, World’s Fair utopias, science fiction visions, and the grand plans of the Moderns. Cosmopolis is the story of the ideal city we never achieved, and the great plans that went into making-over precincts of our urban language.

Cosmopolis: Yesterday's Cities of the Future

Mansfield, Howard

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