Table of Contents

List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Structure and Debates of Planning Theory: Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein. Part I: Foundations of Twentieth-Century Planning:. Introduction:. 1. Urban Utopias: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyed Wrigth, and Le Corbusier: Robert Fishman. 2. The Death and Life of Great American Cities: Jane Jacobs. 3. Toward a Non-Euclidian Mode of Planning: John Friedmann. Part II: Planning: Justifications and Critiques:. Introduction. 4. Arguments For and Against Planning: Richard Klosterman. 5. Planning the Capitalist City: Richard E. Foglesong. 6. Between Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ambiguous Position of U.S. Planning: Robert A. Beauregard. 7. Authoritarian High Modernism: James C. Scott. 8. Making Space: Planning as a Mode of Thought: David C. Perry. Part III: Planning Types:. Introduction. 9. New Directions in Planning Theory: Susan S. Fainstein. 10. The Science of "Muddling Through": Charles E. Lindblom. 11. Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning: Paul Davidoff. 12. Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development: Norman Krumholz. 13. The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation: Patsy Healey. Part IV: Planning in Action: Successes, Failures, and Strategies:. Introduction. 14. What Local Economic Developers Actually Do: Location Quotients versus Press Releases: John M. Levy. 15. Community and Consensus: Reality and Fantasy in Planning: Howell S. Baum. 16. Popular Planning: Coin Street, London: Tim Brindley, Yvonne Rydin, and Gerry Stoker. 17. Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice: Bent Flyvbjerg. Part V: Race, Gender, and City Planning:. Introduction. 18. City Life and Difference: Iris Marion Young. 19. Educating Planners: Unified Diversity for Social Action: June Manning Thomas. 20. Nurturing: Home, Mom, and Apple Pie: Dolores Hayden. 21. Towards Cosmopolis: Utopia as Construction Site: Leonie Sandercock. Part VI: Ethics, the Environment, and Conflicting Priorities:. Introduction. 22. APA's Ethical Principles Include Simplistic Planning Theories: William H. Lucy. 23. Risk Assessment and Environmental Crisis: Toward an Integration of Science and Participation: Frank Fischer. 24. Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development: Scott Campbell. Index.

About the Author

Scott Campbell is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. His research has focused on defense-industrial cities, regional and environmental planning, and German cities. He is co-author of The Rise of the Gunbelt (with Ann Markusen, Peter Hall, and Sabina Deitrick) and of a forthcoming book on Berlin and is co-editor of Readings in Urban Theory, Second Edition (co-edited with Susan S. Fainstein, Blackwell, 2002). Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University. Her research has focused on planning theory, comparative public policy, urban redevelopment, and citizen participation. Among her books are Urban Political Movements, Restructuring the City, The City Builders (second edition 2001), Divided Cities (co-edited with Ian Gordon and Michael Harloe; Blackwell, 1992), and Cities and Visitors (co-edited with Lily M. Hoffman and Dennis R. Judd; Blackwell 2003).