Preface, Part I: Overview, Part II: Images of City-Planning Practice Collage, Part III: Images of City-Planning Practice Sectors, Part IV: The Public Image and the Leadership Role of the Profession, Part V: What About the Future?, Appendices, Index
Lloyd Rodwin
-[W]hat does city planning really achieve? To answer this question,
we now have a wonderful new book that grew out of a faculty seminar
at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning... Focusing on
the US, the book's contributors examine what planners do and how
well they do it, review changes in the professional practice of
city planning over the past half-century and assess how planners'
efforts have (or have not) improved the quality of urban life...
Academics will find much in this book to inform their research and
teaching; practitioners will find much valuable advice to use in
their work; and students of city planning will see what sort of
profession they are getting into.- --Donald Shoup, Urban Studies
-This book is a comprehensive anthology of essays with rich,
diverse, and often conflicting points of view about the practice of
city planning. The extraordinary breadth and reputation of its
academic and practitioner contributors makes the volume a unique,
essential reference resource for every planner's library... This
book has much to contribute to those planners who will be deciding
the future of the profession. It asks many important questions and
provides some answers. It also sets an agenda for the theoretical
and practice-based research that is needed to close the gap between
theory and practice.- --Bruce W. McClendon, APA Journal -A very
attractive package for researchers and practitioners . . .
pro-vocative and inspiring.- --I. Wight, Canadian Journal of Urban
Research.
"[W]hat does city planning really achieve? To answer this question,
we now have a wonderful new book that grew out of a faculty seminar
at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning... Focusing on
the US, the book's contributors examine what planners do and how
well they do it, review changes in the professional practice of
city planning over the past half-century and assess how planners'
efforts have (or have not) improved the quality of urban life...
Academics will find much in this book to inform their research and
teaching; practitioners will find much valuable advice to use in
their work; and students of city planning will see what sort of
profession they are getting into." --Donald Shoup, Urban Studies
"This book is a comprehensive anthology of essays with rich,
diverse, and often conflicting points of view about the practice of
city planning. The extraordinary breadth and reputation of its
academic and practitioner contributors makes the volume a unique,
essential reference resource for every planner's library... This
book has much to contribute to those planners who will be deciding
the future of the profession. It asks many important questions and
provides some answers. It also sets an agenda for the theoretical
and practice-based research that is needed to close the gap between
theory and practice." --Bruce W. McClendon, APA Journal "A very
attractive package for researchers and practitioners . . .
pro-vocative and inspiring." --I. Wight, Canadian Journal of Urban
Research.
"[W]hat does city planning really achieve? To answer this question,
we now have a wonderful new book that grew out of a faculty seminar
at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning... Focusing on
the US, the book's contributors examine what planners do and how
well they do it, review changes in the professional practice of
city planning over the past half-century and assess how planners'
efforts have (or have not) improved the quality of urban life...
Academics will find much in this book to inform their research and
teaching; practitioners will find much valuable advice to use in
their work; and students of city planning will see what sort of
profession they are getting into." --Donald Shoup, Urban Studies
"This book is a comprehensive anthology of essays with rich,
diverse, and often conflicting points of view about the practice of
city planning. The extraordinary breadth and reputation of its
academic and practitioner contributors makes the volume a unique,
essential reference resource for every planner's library... This
book has much to contribute to those planners who will be deciding
the future of the profession. It asks many important questions and
provides some answers. It also sets an agenda for the theoretical
and practice-based research that is needed to close the gap between
theory and practice." --Bruce W. McClendon, APA Journal "A very
attractive package for researchers and practitioners . . .
pro-vocative and inspiring." --I. Wight, Canadian Journal of Urban
Research.
"A unique, essential reference resource for every planner's library
. . . The profession owes a debt of gratitude to the editors and to
the many planners who contributed to this volume."--B. McClendon,
APA Journal"A very attractive package for researchers and
practitioners . . . pro-vocative and inspiring."--I. Wight,
Canadian Journal of Urban Research"A wonderful new book . . .
[C]hapters are . . . eye-opening in their frankness and
originality."--D. Shoup, Urban Studies
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