Local Planning : Contemporary Principles and Practice.

Local Planning: Contemporary Primciples and Practice -- About the Editors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 The Value of Planning -- From townsite to metropolis -- Why communities plan -- Planners as leaders -- The authority to plan -- Property rights, planning, and the public interest -- Suburban planning in a market economy -- From urban renewal to regeneration -- American exceptionalism revisited -- 2 The Context for Local Planning -- The anatomy and soul of a place -- Serving two masters: The legal context of local planning -- Planning and the community context -- The environment and environmentalism -- Sizing up the local economy -- Real estate and the local planning context -- The social context of planning -- The future of metropolitan regions -- 3 Contemporary Concerns of Planning -- Planning in the twenty-first century -- The climate for planning -- Planning for sustainability -- Smart growth in brief -- Place making -- Reclaiming the history of places -- Healthy cities -- Reusing brownfields -- Planning for natural hazards -- Revitalizing older industrial cities -- Planning for creative places -- Immigration and urban development -- Gentrification -- Boomburbs -- Top ten planning ideas -- 4 Who Plans? -- The planner's role -- Regional councils and metropolitan planning organizations -- Reforming Chicago's regional planning -- Regional transportation and development in Atlanta -- A tale of two cities -- Planners as private consultants -- Collaborating to prevent sprawl -- Consultants breaking molds -- BIDs come of age -- Los Angeles's Grand Avenue Authority -- Richmond's Neighborhoods in Bloom -- CDCs and neighborhood intervention -- The university and the city -- 5 Making Plans -- Plans that fit the purpose -- Planning on a crowded stage -- The planning process -- Civic engagement -- Omaha by design -- Planning Cheyenne.

Champaign's system of plans -- The Saint Paul on the Mississippi Development Framework -- Strategic planning for community transformation -- Renewing Washington's neighborhoods -- Stapleton's public-private planning -- 6 Putting Plans to Work -- Transforming policy into reality -- Public-private partnerships -- Zoning codes: Form and function -- Chicago's zoning reform -- Transferable development rights in San Francisco -- From zoning to smart growth -- Regulating greenfield development -- Preserving agricultural land -- Negotiated development -- Design review -- Eminent domain -- The aftermath of Oregon's Measure 37 -- Financing public infrastructure -- Impact assessment -- 7 Planning for Urban Systems -- The systems of the city -- Planning for global climate change -- Infrastructure planning -- Planning for accessibility -- Twelve ideas for improving mobility -- Pedestrian and bicycle planning -- Transit-oriented development -- Promoting housing affordability -- Curitiba, Brazil: Systems planning pioneer -- The urban watershed -- Water in the urban environment -- Greenways and green infrastructure -- Parks and recreation -- Intelligent cities, virtual cities -- 8 Managing Planning -- The planning manager -- Planners and politics -- Planning ethics -- Planning leadership -- The role of the planning director -- Diversity in the planning profession -- GIS and beyond -- Planners as communicators -- For Further Reference -- Contributors -- Index.

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