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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Series: Very Short Introductions
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City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of
goals and-sometimes utopian-aspirations. Formal thought about the
shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls
on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for
understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through
the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of
city planning, also known as urban or town planning, are related
fields of architecture, landscape design, engineering, geography,
political science and policy, sociology, and social work. In
addition, the legions of community and environmental activists
influence debates and controversies within the field. This Very
Short Introduction is organized around eight key aspects of city
planning: street layout; congestion and decentralization; the
response to suburbanization; the conservation and regeneration of
older districts; cities as natural systems; cities and regions;
social class and ethnicity; and disasters and resilience. The
underlying assumption throughout is that decisions that we make
today about cities and metropolitan regions are best understood as
the continuation of past efforts to solve fundamental problems that
have shifted and evolved over multiple generations. At its best,
city planning utilizes technical tools to achieve goals set by
community action and political debate. Carl Abbott's addition to
Oxford's long-running Very Short Introduction series is a brief but
concentrated look at past decisions about the management of urban
growth and their effects on the creation of the twenty-first
century city.
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