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"City Planning: A Very Short Introduction gives an international overview of progress in city planning over the last century. City planning explores the tension between the idea of cities as individually held land-parcels and as representations of community and identity. It has inevitable political and ethical dimensions. Over time, cities have grown and merged, leading to larger-scale thinking about planning, but it remains a regional discipline. Part of city planning involves making cities more resilient to natural disasters and civil conflict. Data, technological developments, commerce, and efficient functioning are important, but human connection is necessary for cities to survive"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: city planning in India -- 2 Shifts and transitions: legacies of pre-independence planning -- 3 Efforts to build a modern nation: planning from 1947 to the late 1960s -- 4 Paper plans meet the actual ground: 1960s-1980s -- 5 Post-liberalization planning: 1985-2005 -- 6 Recent planning efforts: 2005-2017 -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

The European Landscape Convention, with great determination, has placed as a priority target, the necessity to promote a high level of attention to the landscape, as a common asset. According to the Convention each part of the landscape conveys meanings: the areas of particular beauty, daily life landscapes and degraded ones. The evidence of this changed reading is the "Law on the Cultural Heritage and Landscape" (DLgs 22 n. 42 of 2004), which in the 2008 version (Dlgs. n. 63) embrace even the principles of the European Landscape Convention, which Italy ratified in 2006. If the Territorial Landscape Plan and the Territorial Coordination Plan have the useful role of containing guidelines, directives and safeguard provisions for the areas with landscape value, the Urban City Plans are the most appropriate tool to allow a planning which is respectful of landscape requirements. As a consequence, the urban city planning has to investigate the values of the landscape decoding both its specific and relational characters. The proposed landscape decoding method, already experimented with different scales of planning, offers a possible key to read and interpret the landscape in order to orient the Government projects on territorial-land transformations, which must be linked to protection, redevelopment and enhancement.

AbstractAmong our large cities Cleveland easily ranks first in the enterprise and forethought with which it has attacked its humanitarian problems and taken care of its people. This article sketches its history along these lines.