Spatial Planning and Urban Development: Critical Perspectives
β Scribed by Pier Carlo Palermo, Davide Ponzini (auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 236
- Series
- Urban and Landscape Perspectives 10
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Topic of Study....Pages 2-5
The Many Faces of Planning....Pages 7-11
A Crossroads with Many Dimensions....Pages 13-17
Emerging Questions....Pages 19-22
The Course of Our Discussion....Pages 23-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Rise and Crisis of Planning Theory....Pages 31-35
Urban Design: The Lost Object....Pages 37-40
Decision-Centred Views....Pages 41-52
The Social Rootedness of Urban Planning....Pages 53-63
The Interactive Turn....Pages 65-76
The Collaborative Shift....Pages 77-89
Escaping into Irrationality....Pages 91-98
Designing the Possible....Pages 99-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Characteristics of the Italian Model....Pages 111-116
Towards a Planning Science?....Pages 117-124
City Design....Pages 125-133
Reformist Mainstream....Pages 135-141
The Challenges for Policy Making....Pages 143-151
Reconsidering Policy Design....Pages 153-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Planning, Implementation and Policy Tools....Pages 163-174
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Urban Regulation: Critical Issues....Pages 175-180
Sense and Limits of Spatial Visioning....Pages 181-188
Urban Development Projects in a Strategic Framework....Pages 189-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Choosing the Paradigm....Pages 201-205
The Quality in Spatial Development....Pages 207-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-246
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