Planning the Twentieth-century American City
Planning the Twentieth-century American City

Author: Mary Corbin Sies

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1226

ISBN-13: 9780801851643

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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.

Urban Public Policy
Urban Public Policy

Author: Martin V. Melosi

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0271044586

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The 1992 Los Angeles riots catapulted the problems of the city back onto the policy agenda. The cauldron of social problems of the city, as the riots showed, offers no simple solutions. Indeed, urban policy includes a range of policy issues involving welfare, housing, job training, education, drug control, and the environment. The myriad of local, state, and federal agencies only further complicates formulating and implementing coherent policies for the city. This volume, while not offering specific proposals to remedy the problems of the city, provides a broad historical context for discussing contemporary urban policy and for arriving at new prescriptions for relieving the ills of the American city. The essays address issues related to public housing, poverty, transportation, and the environment. In doing so, the authors discuss larger themes in urban policy as well as provide case studies of how policies have been implemented over time in specific cities. Of particular interest are two essays that discuss the role of the historian in shaping urban policy and the importance of historical preservation in urban planning.

Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore
Spatial Planning for a Sustainable Singapore

Author: Tai-Chee Wong

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-02-28

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1402065426

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This book analyses and provides an insight to Singapore’s planning system and practices associated with sustainable development. It takes a reflective approach in reviewing the direction, impact and significance of sustainable development in Singapore planning and the future challenges facing the city-state, which is often looked upon by many developing countries as a model.

The Challenge of Urban Government
The Challenge of Urban Government

Author: Mila Freire

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780821347386

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Cities and towns are vital for the development of economic systems and social organisations. However, cities face tremendous challenges. They have to simultaneously attract business, provide a good livelihood for their inhabitants, generate enough resources to finance infrastructure and social needs, and take care of their poor. The Challenge of Urban Government: Policies and Practices looks at the consequences of globalisation on city management. This book focuses on the complex of issues generated in urban areas, such as the dynamics of metropolitan spaces, and the need to define strategic territory for operational and policy purposes. Some urgent challenges include how to handle spillovers across municipalities and the need to create a new city structure over an existing city to give the suburbs some elements of centrality. It examines the dynamics of governance and how to get stakeholders' participation in the government process.

Cleveland
Cleveland

Author: William Dennis Keating

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780873384926

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An analysis of the political economy, social development and history of Cleveland from 1796 to the present. As one of the oldest communities in the United States, the author looks at it as a model of transformation for other industrial cities.