City and Regional Planning

This book provides an overview of the theory and practice of city and regional planning. With material on the globalization and the world city system and provides examples from other countries, it has been written with the needs of readers worldwide who seek an overview of city and regional planning.

City and Regional Planning provides a clearly written and lavishly illustrated overview of the theory and practice of city and regional planning. With material on globalization and the world city system, and with examples from a number of countries, the book has been written to meet the needs of readers worldwide who seek an overview of city and regional planning.

Chapters cover the history of cities and city and regional planning, urban design and placemaking, comprehensive plans, planning politics and plan implementation, planning visions, and environmental, transportation, and housing planning. The book pays special attention to diversity, social justice, and collaborative planning. Topics include current practice in resilience, transit-oriented development, complexity in planning, spatial equity, globalization, and advances in planning methods.

It is aimed at U.S. graduate and undergraduate city and regional planning, geography, urban design, urban studies, civil engineering, and other students and practitioners. It includes extensive material on current practice in planning for climate change. Each chapter includes a case study, a biography of an important planner, lists of concepts and important people, and a list of books, articles, videos, and other suggestions for further learning.

"Richard Le Gates has written the most complete and comprehensive survey of city and regional planning by any author in the past twenty years. It will be the standard for the coming decades." - Michael Teitz, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley "LeGates has perfectly captured city and regional planning in its many applications from local to global and offers an excellent portrait of the international scope of urbanization from the past to the present." - Eugenie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research & Education, University of Pennsylvania "This book is a refreshing, inclusionary, beautifully illustrated and readable overview of a complex profession. It paysspecial attention to important issues of social inequality and justice." - June Thomas, Professor Emerita of Urban Planning, University of Michigan "Eminent planning scholar Richard LeGates presents a beautifully crafted story of city and regional planning that will fascinate planning students worldwide. Full of masterly insights, this book is a planners' must-read."- Ben Davy, Professor of Land Policy, Land Management and Municipal Geoinformation, Technical University of Dortmund (retired), 20172021 President of the Association of European Schools of Planning "This wide-ranging volume offers undergraduate and graduate students an overview that is U.S.-focused but globally-engaged; historically-grounded yet attuned to recent exemplary practice; concentrated on places, projects, policies and techniques, yet aware of human agency." - Lawrence Vale, Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "I can think of no better way to learn about the state of the art of designing and planning cities than Richard LeGates's City and Regional Planning textbook. It explains concisely the techniques planners use in creating and improving the quality of places, and offers avenues for further study to those who wish to pursue subjects in greater depth." - Gary Hack, Professor Emeritus of Urban Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania "City and Regional Planning is a very timely refreshing text on solving complexcontemporary urban challenges including climate change. LeGates's textbook will appeal to planners in Australia, and New Zealand, as well as the U.S. and other countries. - Professor Barbara Norman, Chair and Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Canberra "LeGates' broad overview of key planning concepts is readily accessible and engaging, laying the groundwork for both an informed planner and thoughtful citizen." - Margaret Wilder, Executive Director, Urban Affairs Association "The editor of seven editions of The City Reader, Richard LeGates has long been a leader in charting the domain of planning knowledge. In City and Regional Planning LeGates thoughtfully articulates the history and current practice of urban planning in accessible language aiming to engage a new generation of planners." - Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard University "This sweeping introduction to American urban planning by one of the field's most perceptive observers does a wonderful job of highlighting key issues and debates.The up-to-date material on sustainable urban development and climate action planning is a welcome addition." - Steven Wheeler, Professor of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis "Richard LeGates investigates the complete history of city and regional planning thoroughly in this milestone encyclopedic book. It will be a source of inspiration for many generations of planners." - Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning, University College London "City and Regional Planning is a veritable almanac of American planning from 1607 to the present, covering landmarks in styles, approaches, theories, visions, visionaries, scholars and scholarship and much more. LeGates's wide experience as an international and interdisciplinary writer, teacher and practitioner, lends authority at every turn. The reader has the sense of being taken on an epic tour through a vast and rather overwhelming city by someone who sees significance in each of its buildings and spaces, and uses their stories to explain how the city started and what may become of it. Superb." - Chris Webster, Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Chair Professor (Urban Planning and Development Economics), The University of Hong Kong. "This long overdue textbook is a gift for planning students, educators, and scholars in Australia, China, and other countriesdeveloped or developing. For the first time, it places urban planning and design in a global context and makes planning theory and practice accessible worldwide. The exhaustive and up-to-date references are a wonderful resource." - Richard Hu, Professor of Urban Planning and Design & Director, Globalization and Cities Research Program, University of Canberra "LeGates integrates planning scholarship and practice better than any previous text, across the full range of planning topics and issues. It is a major step forward in introducing the field." - Michael Hibbard, Professor Emeritus, Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon "An energetic, fact-filled overview of contemporary challenges combined with awide-ranging survey of planning past and present. LeGates's accessibletext reinforces crucial interconnections with broader social imperatives of sustainability, equity and respect." - Robert Freestone, Professor ofPlanning, University of New South Wales "Professor LeGates's City and Regional Planning is a masterpiece. Its intellectual depth and clear explanations will make it an indispensable reference for academics in China and everywhere in the Global South as well as the Global North." - Qin Bo, Professor of Urban Planning and Management, Renmin University of China "This book is a comprehensive panorama of city and regional planning by a highly qualified author with a longstanding track record of seminal collections in urban studies." - Ali Madanipour, Professor of Urban Design and Director of the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at Newcastle University, UK "City and Regional Planning covers all the concepts and knowledge an urban planning student needs to know. Understanding how urban planning has evolved in the United St…