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Great Planning Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Peter Hall
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the decisions of
Great Planning Disasters
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Peter Hall
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1982-03-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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"Wide-ranging, significant, and readable...It will earn respect in non-academics as well as academic circles. A first-rate job."—Lloyd Rodwin
Planning for Disaster
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: William G. Ramroth
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

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Disasters, throughout the ages, have shaped the built environment. The way city planners, architects, engineers and politicians plan and design cities, building
Big Plans
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Kenneth L. Kolson
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-03 - Publisher: JHU Press

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This work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part seren
The Profession of City Planning
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Lloyd Rodwin
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-29 - Publisher: Routledge

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In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish