Table of Contents

Part 1: The World of Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 1. The State of the World’s Cities 2. Megaforces Shaping the Future of the Nation’s Cities 3. Planning, Urban Revitalization and Inner City: An Exploration of Structural Racism 4. Pluralistic Planning for Multicultural Cities 5. Suburbia: Homeland of the American Future 6. The New Suburban Typology Part 2. History and Theory of Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 7. Modernism and Early Urban Planning 8. Reflections and Research on the U.S. Experience 9. Practitioners and the Art of Planning 10. The Shapes of Suburbia 11. Ramapo at Thirty, The Changing Role of the Plan in Land Use Regulation 12. Anglo-American Town Planning Theory Since 1945: Three Significant Developments But No Paradigm Shifts 13. New Directions in Planning Theory Part 3: Classics in Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 14. Dimensions of Performance 15. Downtown is for People 16. Home Remedies for Urban Cancer 17. The Master Plan, An Impermanent Constitution 18. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning 19. The Metropolitan Region 20. Paying for the Plan Part 4: The Plan: Its Origins and Contemporary Uses Introduction 21. Twentieth Century Land Use Planning, A Stalwart Family Tree 22. Regionalism 23. Does Planning Need the Plan? 24. How Plans Work 25. The Land Planning Arena 26. Shaping Cities Through Development Regulations Part 5: Planning, Practice and Methods Introduction 27. Introduction: Planning for People and Places 28. Planning Environments 29. A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning…Ingredients of Success 30. Demographic Futures as a Guide to Planning California Latinos and the Compact City 31. Geographic Information Systems 32. The Future of Public Participation Part 6: Key Topics in Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 34. Implementing the Solutions, Measures for Achieving Intermodal Balance 35. Hopeful Signs Urban Revitalization in the 21st Century 36. Sprawl and the Tyranny of Easy Development Decisions 37. How To Make a Town 38. Environmental Planning 39. Planning Metropolitan Regions Part 7: Emerging Issues in Urban and Regional Planning Introduction 40. The Promise of Urban Growth 41. Land Use and Urban Form: Planning Compact Cities 42. Cities Under Siege, Urban Planning and the Threat of Infectious Diseases 43. 22@Barcelona: A New District for the Creative Economy 44. The Changing Politics of Urban Mega- Projects 45. Beyond Megalopolis: Exploring America’s New ‘Megapolitan’ Geography 46. The Spatial Organization of Cities: Deliberate Outcome or Unforeseen Consequence

About the Author

Eugenie L Birch FAICP, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of urban Resaerch and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

"Educators unfamiliar with Routledge's Urban Reader series will find The Urban and Regional Planning Reader to be a refreshing collection for introductory planning classes. Birch's reader goes beyond the typical compilation of articles organized by topic and introduced by short prefaces to become a truly artful anthology of seminal and forward-looking writings about urban and regional planning." --Journal of the American Planning Association, March 2010 "[Birch] should be commended for navigating such a broad field to assemble this generally representative survey."--Michael R. Glass, Urban Studies Program, University of Pittsuburgh, in The Pennsylvania Geographer 48, 1