"Planning the Good Community: New Urbanisms in Theory and Practice" by Jill Grant (Repost)

This book examines new urban approaches both in theory and practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism lives up to its theory in its practice, it asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to the good community.

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.
The book 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.
This book offers the reader unparalleled insight as well as a rigorous and considered critical analysis.

Section I looks at the rise of new urban approaches, setting out the historical and theoretical background that led to the movement.
Section II examines new urbanism in practice, developing accounts of the experience with new urban approaches in several countries.
Section III considers the prospects for new urbanism and new urban approaches into the future.

CONTENTS
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
Illustration credits
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of terms and measurements
PART 1 THE RISE OF NEW URBAN APPROACHES
01 New urbanism(s) ascendant
02 Getting to (sub)urbanism
03 Theory in new urbanism
PART 2 NEW URBANISM(S) IN PRACTICE
04 New urbanism is born: the American experience
05 Revamping urbanism: the European experience
06 Modernizing urbanism: new urban Asia
07 Colonial urbanism: Canada signs on
PART 3 THE PROSPECTS FOR NEW URBANISM(S)
08 Reconciling new urbanism’s theory and practice
09 The fate of new urbanism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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