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Comparative Planning Cultures Bishwapriya Sanyal

Comparative Planning Cultures By Bishwapriya Sanyal

Comparative Planning Cultures by Bishwapriya Sanyal


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Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures.

Comparative Planning Cultures Summary

Comparative Planning Cultures by Bishwapriya Sanyal

Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures.

About Bishwapriya Sanyal

Bishwapriya Sanyal is Ford International Professor of Urban Development and Planning at MIT. He served as the Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT from 1994 to 2002 and is currently the Head of the Special Program in Urban and Regional Studies, which hosts mid-career practicing planners from around the world at MIT. He is currently working on a book on the internationalization of planning education.

Table of Contents

Part I: Overview 1. Bishwapriya Sanyal- Hybrid Planning Cultures: And the Search for the Global Cultural Commons. Part II: Two Theoretical Propositions 2. John Friedmann-Planning Cultures in an Era of Transition. 3. Manuel Castells-Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age. Part III: The Traffic of Planning Ideas in Industrializing Nations 4. Kian Tajbakhsh-Planning Culture in Iran: Centralization and Decentralization and Local Governance in the Twentieth Century. 5. Michael Leaf-Modernity Confronts Tradition: The Professional Planner and Local Corporatism in the Rebuilding of China's Cities. 6. Mee Kam Ng-Planning Cultures in Two Chinese Transitional Cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen. 7. Tridip Banerjee-Understanding Planning Cultures: The Kolkata Paradox. 8. Robert Cowherd-Does Planning Culture Matter? Dutch and American Models in Indonesian Urban Transformations. 9. Diane E. Davis-Planning for Mexico City: Contending Planning Cultures and the Urban Built Environment in Mexico City . Part IV: Planning Cultures and Social Change: The Experience of Industrialized Nations 10. Andre Soreneon-The Developmental State and the Extreme Narrowness of the Public Realm: The 20th Century Evolution of Japanese Planning Culture. 11. Philip Booth-The Nature of Difference: Traditions of Law and Government and Their Effects on Planning in Britain and France. 12. Andreas Faludi-The Netherlands: A Culture with a Soft Spot for Planning. 13. Leonie Sandercock-Picking The Paradoxes: An Historical Anatomy Of Australian Planning Cultures. 14. Eugenie L. Birch- US Planning Culture Under Pressure: Major Elements Endure and Flourish in the Face of Crises.

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NPB9780415951340
9780415951340
0415951348
Comparative Planning Cultures by Bishwapriya Sanyal
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2005-06-24
440
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