New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures (Planning, History and the Environment)
Editorial Reviews
Review
"The "new" in New Urbanism is sometimes misunderstood. Professor Talen's carefully researched, thought provoking survey squarely locates the antecedents of New Urbanism within four major traditions of American urbanism. It is the first compelling "placing" of New Urbanism into a historic framework. This is a must read for anyone interested in contributing wisely to American urbanization. It is full of insight about how to improve our cities, re-making them anew while relying on useful precedent and, more importantly, cognizant of time-honored, persisting cultural motivations."
-Alex Krieger, Professor of Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
"Anyone seeking to understand the tragic failures of urban place-making in America will be illuminated by Emily Talen's well-organized treatise. She brings a rich, coherent historical overview to a subject often adrift in the horse lattitudes of statistical analysis."
-James Howard Kunstler
"The present cultural climate may feel inhospitable for American urbanism but this book shows how deep the movement's roots run in the nationhood."
-Michael Hebbert,University of Manchester
"In this new work, Prof. Talen provides a comprehensive and deeply thoughtful enquiry into the characteristics of Randall urbanism, and the promise that this concept holds for the nation's future, if it is properly understood and implemented. This serious work will be much valued by students of urban planning, and could help to resolve "the conflict of cultures" which she so adeptly identifies. I found the chapter on Planned Communites to be particularly illuminating."
-Randall Arendt
Book Description
Showing how New Urbanism is simply American urbanism as it has been evolving since the nineteenth century, this is a history not of what has been achieved but rather of what planners have sought to achieve--a history of the quest for good cities.
In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, the author identifies four approaches to city-making, which she terms "cultures": incrementalism, plan-making, planned communities, and regionalism. She shows how these cultures connect, overlap, and conflict one with another and how most of the ideas about building better settlements are so recurrent.
She concludes with an assessment of the successes and failures of the four cultures and the need to integrate these ideas as a means to promoting good urbanism in America.
New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures (Planning, History and the Environment),E. Talen,Routledge,0415701333,Architecture,Cities and towns,City planning,Criticism,Government - U.S. Government,History,Politics - Current Events,Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.,United States,Urban communities
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