City Journal
A quarterly magazine created to communicate to a broad and influential audience innovative ideas about restoring the quality of life to America's cities.
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RUT | Radical Urban Theory
Radical Urban Theory is a collection of writings about the modern condition in America and cities. Authors represented include City Quartz author Mike Davis, Matt Jalbert, Anthony Platt, Christopher Leo and others. Contributions welcome.
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Berkeley Planning Journal Homepage
Berkeley Planning Journal A Publication of the Graduate Students of the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley ...
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PLANETIZEN: Op-Ed
PLANetizen is an information exchange for the urban planning and development community. PLANetizen features daily news, jobs, events, editorials, and more.
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Common Sense
COMMON SENSE is a Collection of Published Essays by a Contrarian Planner on Politics, Land Use Planning, the Environment, Development, Citizen Involvement, and the No Growth Movement.
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Asphalt Nation
Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master - public spaces were designed ...
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The Next American Metropolis by Peter Calthorpe - A Book Review by Scott London
THE NEXT AMERICAN METROPOLIS By Peter Calthorpe Princeton Architectural Press, 1993, 175 pages Peter Calthorpe -- an innovative San Francisco-based architect, urban designer, land use planner and one of the leading proponents of what is being called the New Urbanism -- sets forth the principles of building good neighborhoods and communities. Calthorpe describes the book as part polemic, part ...
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Paying for Our Growth in Oregon (The POGO Report) Richard H. Carson _______________ New Meridian Press October 1998 (Update) We have met the enemy and he is us! Walt Kelly, Pogo comic strip, Earth Day 1971 Read the report online Read the APA Abstract See The Cost of Growth Study's slide show Visit ABOUT PLANNING Check out Rich's newest publication: COMMON SENSE Copyright 1998 - by Richard H.
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3.12: Edgier Cities
In the last quarter-century, scores of new urban centers have sprouted up across US. Joel Garreau visits some of them - three generations into the future.
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ET 10/96: The Good City and the Good Life: Renewing the sense of community
The Good City and the Good Life: Renewing the sense of community Book Review contributed by David Campbell aniel Kemmis, mayor of Missoula, Montana, is one of the nation's most astute interpreters of civic life and the practice of citizenship. This book, based on his experiences as mayor and his travels to communities around the word, documents the small, patient and encouraging steps by which ...
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Edge City : Life on the New Frontier
Home Nonfiction Urban Planning & Development Edge City : Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau See More Details Paperback - 548 pages Reprint edition (October 1, 1992) Anchor Books/Doubleday; ISBN: 0385424345 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.35 x 9.18 x 6.01 Reviews Editorial Reviews From Kirkus Reviews , July 1, 1991 After the suburbanization of America in the 50's, when people followed new ...
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GROWTH MANAGEMENT
THE BEST LAID PLANS: THE RISE AND FALL OF GROWTH MANAGEMENT IN FLORIDA MARY DAWSON Copyright 1996 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law I. INTRODUCTION Florida's Growth Management Act of 1985 (Growth Management Act) was implemented by the adoption of local government comprehensive plans which were based on the expectation that land use amendments would receive deferential review by the ...
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Mexico City Spawns Suburbs, Changing Face of Countryside
December 18, 1999 Mexico City Spawns Suburbs, Changing Face of Countryside Map Mexico from Microsoft Encarta Concise Encyclopedia By SAM DILLON EXICO CITY, Dec. 17 -- Cuernavaca, a city of gardens and golfers south of Mexico City, is still dark at 5:30 a.m. when Mario Betancourt, an executive with Pemex, the government oil company, crawls from bed, shaves in a rush and noses his car into a line ...
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