Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice (RTPI Library Series) - Softcover

Grant, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415700752 ISBN 13: 9780415700757

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities.

With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It compares the movement for urban renaissance in Europe with the New Urbanism of the United States and Canada, and asks whether the concerns that drive today’s planning theory – issues like power, democracy, spatial patterns and globalisation- receive adequate attention in new urban approaches. The issue of aesthetics is also raised, as the author questions whether communities must be more than just attractive in order to be good.

With the benefit of twenty years’ hindsight and a world-wide perspective, this book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.

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Jill Grant

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415700752
• ISBN 13: 9780415700757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296