urban planning: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Historical background on urban planning is discussed in Michael Harloe, The Peopleās Home?: Social Rented Housing in Europe and America (1995), a history of social housing; Erwin A. Gutkind, International History of City Development, ed. by Gabriele Gutkind, 7 vol. (1964ā72), a more global treatment; and Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow, 3rd ed. (2002), a history of city planning in the 20th century. Works representing views from the mid-20th century include William I. Goodman and Eric C. Freund (eds.), Principles and Practice of Urban Planning, 4th ed. (1968); Michael P. Brooks, Social Planning and City Planning (1970); Kevin Lynch and Gary Hack, Site Planning, 3rd ed. (1984), the classic text on this topic; and Charles Abrams, Manās Struggle for Shelter in an Urbanizing World (1964, reissued 1966).
Theories and alternative practices are presented in Robert Fishman, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century (1977, reissued 1982), a summary of the lives and proposals of Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier, and Bourgeois Utopias (1987), a social history of the development of suburbia; Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961, reissued 2002), the classic critique of urban renewal programs; Scott Campbell and Susan S. Fainstein (eds.), Readings in Planning Theory, 2nd ed. (2003), highlighting previously published texts representative of contemporary planning theory and its controversies; Robert Freestone (ed.), Urban Planning in a Changing World (2000), essays examining the situation of planning at the start of the 21st century; Patsy Healey, Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies (2005), an argument for planning as a communicative process; and World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future (1987), advancing the concept of sustainable development.
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| Add new Web site: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Urban Planning and Sustainable Development in The 21st Century, Conceptual and Management Issues (PDF). | Oct 02, 2026 | ||
| Modified age appropriateness: IOPscience - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science - Urban Planning and Sustainable Development in The 21st Century, Conceptual and Management Issues (PDF). | Oct 02, 2026 | ||
| Updated media, added Top Questions and cross-references. | Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at CalPoly - On the Art and Practice of Urban Design (PDF). | Jan 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Ecology and urban planning (PDF). | Nov 21, 2025 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | May 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Role of Geoinformatics in Urban Planning (PDF). | Mar 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Urban Planning and Urban Design (PDF). | Feb 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Healthy Design and Urban Planning Strategies, Actions, and Policy to Achieve Salutogenic Cities. | Dec 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews - The Impact of Urban Planning on the Creation and Preservation of Green Spaces for Biodiversity in Metropolitan Areas. | Sep 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews - The Impact of Urban Planning on the Creation and Preservation of Green Spaces for Biodiversity in Metropolitan Areas. | Sep 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Impact of technology on upgrading slums and the moderating role of upstream influences: a contemporary approach to urban planning. | Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Patterns in Urban Design. | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Iowa Graduate College - School of Planning and Public Affairs - What is Urban and Regional Planning? | Jun 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Urban Climate Change Research Network - Urban Planning and Urban Design (PDF). | Feb 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Urban Climate Change Research Network - Urban Planning and Urban Design (PDF). | Feb 23, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: 20th Century Architecture - Urban Planning. | May 13, 2022 | ||
| Removed media. | Aug 05, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Dec 11, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Education - Urban Planning. | Dec 09, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | May 12, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Urban and Regional Planning. | Nov 02, 2015 | ||
| Added video. | Mar 13, 2015 | ||
| Changed "The Netherlands" to "the Netherlands." | Aug 20, 2010 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 26, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Urban Planning Works. | Dec 25, 2008 | ||
| Media revised. | Aug 26, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jan 30, 2007 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Jan 30, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |