Comparative Planning Cultures

Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. <p>Part I: Overview 1. Bishwapriya Sanyal- Hybrid Planning Cultures: And the Search for the Global Cultural Commons. Part II: Two Theoretical Propositions 2. John Friedmann-Planning Cultures in an Era of Transition. 3. Manuel Castells-Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age. Part III: The Traffic of Planning Ideas in Industrializing Nations 4. Kian Tajbakhsh-Planning Culture in Iran: Centralization and Decentralization and Local Governance in the Twentieth Century. 5. Michael Leaf-Modernity Confronts Tradition: The Professional Planner and Local Corporatism in the Rebuilding of China's Cities. 6. Mee Kam Ng-Planning Cultures in Two Chinese Transitional Cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen. 7. Tridip Banerjee-Understanding Planning Cultures: The Kolkata Paradox. 8. Robert Cowherd-Does Planning Culture Matter? Dutch and American Models in Indonesian Urban Transformations. 9. Diane E. Davis-Planning for Mexico City: Contending Planning Cultures and the Urban Built Environment in Mexico City . Part IV: Planning Cultures and Social Change: The Experience of Industrialized Nations 10. André Soreneon-The Developmental State and the Extreme Narrowness of the Public Realm: The 20th Century Evolution of Japanese Planning Culture. 11. Philip Booth-The Nature of Difference: Traditions of Law and Government and Their Effects on Planning in Britain and France. 12. Andreas Faludi-The Netherlands: A Culture with a Soft Spot for Planning. 13. Leonie Sandercock-Picking The Paradoxes: An Historical Anatomy Of Australian Planning Cultures. 14. Eugenie L. Birch- US Planning Culture Under Pressure: Major Elements Endure and Flourish in the Face of Crises.</p>