Covers the roots of American urban planning. Now in its sixth printing, this best-selling volume is the ideal
sourcebook for introduction to urban planning, history of planning, planning theory, and American urban history
courses.
Table of Contents
List of Plates
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
1. The Culture of Planning.
Donald A. Krueckeberg
I. The Roots of Urban Planning: 1840-1914
2. The Impact of Sanitary Reform upon American Urban Planning, 1840-1890.
Jon A. Peterson
3. The City Beautiful Movement: Forgotten Origins and Lost Meanings.
Jon A. Peterson
4. The Plan of Chicago.
Robert L. Wrigley, Jr.
5. Playgrounds, Housing, and City Planning.
Allen F. Davis
II. The Growth of Planning between the Wars
6. Moles and Skylarks.
William H. Wilson
7. Radburn and the American Planning Movement: The Persistence of an Idea.
Eugenie Ladner Birch
8. City Planning in World War II: The Experience of the National Resources Planning Board.
Phillip J. Funigiello
9. Visions of a Post-War City: A Perspective on Urban Planning in Philadelphia and the Nation, 1942-1945.
John F. Bauman
III. Planning since World War II
10. The Intercity Freeway.
Alan A. Altshulter
11. 1968: Getting Going, Staffing Up, Responding to Issues.
Allan B. Jacobs
12. A Retrospective View of Equity Planning: Cleveland, 1969-1979.
Norman Krumholz
13. Bibliography of Planning History in the United States.
