| Abstrakt: |
Presents a retrospective look at American city planning over the past century, delineating 10 distinct periods: 1) the discovery of the slums and urban underclass, 1890-1901; 2) attempts to impose heavily formalistic urban reconstruction on America's greatest cities, 1901-15; 3) use of zoning and advisory city planning commissions, with a focus on profit from land development, 1916-39; 4) the approach of members of the Regional Planning Association of America, who were attempting to introduce utopian reconstruction of the foundation of American life, 1923-36; 5) affordable public housing construction by way of federal subsidy, 1937-64; 6) advocacy planning based on local involvement, 1965-80; 7) a focus on conceptual and abstract planning theory, 1975-89; 8) planning as project or real estate development, 1980-89; 9) the halting of further development in favor of environmental quality, 1980-89; and 10) the rediscovery of the permanent urban underclass, 1890-1989. |
