Comparative Planning Cultures

441 Pages·2005·12.497 MB·English

by  Sanyal Bishwapriya

Comparative
Planning Cultures
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Comparative
Planning Cultures
Bishwapriya Sanyal
Edited by
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Comparative planning cultures / edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal.
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1. Regional planning--Cross-cultural studies. 2. City planning--Cross-cultural studies. 3. Social policy-
-Cross-cultural studies. 4. Central planning--Cross-cultural studies. I. Sanyal, Bishwapriya.
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CONTENTS
Contributors xi
Preface xix
PART I OVERVIEW
1. Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search
for the Global Cultural Commons 3
Bishwapriya Sanyal
PART II TWO THEORETICAL PROPOSITIONS
2. Planning Cultures in Transition 29
John Friedmann
3. Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a
Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age 45
Manuel Castells
PART III THE TRAFFIC OF PLANNING IDEAS IN
INDUSTRIALIZING NATIONS
4. Planning Culture in Iran: Centralization and Decentralization
and Local Governance in the Twentieth Century (The Case for
Urban Management and Planning) 67
Kian Tajbakhsh
VII
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VIII CONTENTS
5. Modernity Confronts Tradition: The Professional
Planner and Local Corporatism in the Rebuilding
of China’s Cities 91
Michael Leaf
6. Planning Cultures in Two Chinese Transitional
Cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen 113
Mee Kam Ng
7. Understanding Planning Cultures: The Kolkata
Paradox 145
Tridib Banerjee
8. Does Planning Culture Matter? Dutch and
American Models in Indonesian Urban
Transformations 165
Robert Cowherd
9. Contending Planning Cultures and the
Urban Built Environment in Mexico City 193
Diane E. Davis
PART IV PLANNING CULTURES AND SOCIAL CHANGE:
THE EXPERIENCE OF INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS
10. The Developmental State and the Extreme Narrowness
of the Public Realm: The Twentieth Century
Evolution of Japanese Planning Culture 223
André Sorensen
11. The Nature of Difference: Traditions of Law and
Government and Their Effects on Planning in
Britain and France 259
Philip Booth
12. The Netherlands: A Culture with a Soft Spot for Planning 285
Andreas Faludi
13. Picking the Paradoxes: A Historical Anatomy of
Australian Planning Cultures 309
Leonie Sandercock
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CONTENTS IX
14. U.S. Planning Culture under Pressure: Major
Elements Endure and Flourish in the Face of Crises 331
Eugenie L. Birch
Notes 359
Bibliography 379
Index 403