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Planning the twentieth-century American city / edited by Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver.
Title & Author:

Planning the twentieth-century American city / edited by Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Description:

xiv, 594 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-571) and index.
The History of planning history / Mary Corbin Sies, Christopher Silver -- Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.: the visionary and the professional / Jon A. Peterson -- The City social movement: progressive women reformers and early social planning / Susan Marie Wirka -- Fenced-off corners and wider settings: the logic of civic improvement in early-twentieth-century St. Louis / Eric Sandweiss -- The Art and science of park planning in the United States: Chicago's small parks, 1902 to 1905 / Joan E. Draper -- The Design of Yorkship Garden Village: product of the progressive planning, architecture, and housing reform movements / Michael H. Lang -- Conservation, resource management, and regional planning: the pioneering role of Joseph Hyde Pratt / Robert E. Ireland -- 'Smokestacks and geraniums': planning and politics in San Diego / John Hancock.
Planning, public works, and politics: the Trinity River reclamation project in Dallas / Robert B. Fairbanks -- Of swimming pools and 'slums': zoning and residential development in post-World War II Columbus, Ohio / Patricia Burgess -- Homebuilding and industrial decentralization in Los Angeles: the roots of the Post-World War II urban region / Greg Hise -- Professional conflict over urban form: the case of urban freeways, 1930- to 1970 / Cliff Ellis -- Roots of the 'renaissance': federal incentives to urban planning, 1941 to 1948 / Thomas W. Hanchett -- World War II and urban California: city planning and the transformation hypothesis / Roger W. Lotchin -- Federal urban policy and the birth of democratic planning in Birmingham, Alabama, 1949 to 1974 / Charles E. Connerly -- Savannah's changing past: historic preservation planning and the social construction of a historic landscape, 1955 to 1985 / Robert Hodder -- Seeking a finer Detroit: the design and planning agenda of the 1960s / June Manning Thomas -- Five strategies for downtown: policy discourse and planning since 1943 / Carl Abbott -- The Impact of ideology on American town planning: from the Garden City to Battery Park City / Tony Schuman, Elliott Sclar -- Planning history and the new American metropolis / May Corbin Sies, Christopher Silver.
Summary:

Planning the Twentieth-Century American City reassesses the history of planning ideas and the impact of the planning process on specific neighborhoods, regions, and urban communities in the United States since 1900. Focusing on large and small metropolitan areas in all regions of the country, the authors analyze a wide range of planners, issues, and influences to explain how the twentieth-century built environment has developed. Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development. The authors treat a variety of concerns, from parks, civic improvement, housing reform, and social planning to zoning, federal urban policy, public works, and historic preservation.

ISBN:

0801851637 (acid-free paper)
9780801851636 (acid-free paper)
0801851645 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780801851643 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

City planning United States History 20th century.
City planning.
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
United States.
USA
City planning History 20th century United States
Geschichte

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Sies, Mary Corbin.
Silver, Christopher, 1951-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 118980
Call No.: ID HT167.P54; ID:96-B361
Status: Available

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