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One Images of the City -- 1. The Future Metropolis: Can It Be Made More Humane? -- 2. Great and Terrible Cities -- 3. The Educative City -- 4. The Form of the City -- 5. Images of the City in the Social Sciences -- Two The Metropolis and New Communities in the United States -- 6. Problems of the Metropolis: Changing Images and Realities -- 7. Conditions for a Successful New Communities Program -- 8. The New Communities Program and Why It Failed -- Three The Metropolis and City Planning in Third World Countries -- 9. Realism and Utopianism in City Planning: A Retrospective View -- 10. Changing Perspectives on Area Development Strategies -- Four Educational Dilemmas in City Planning -- 11. Four Approaches to Urban Studies -- 12. Training City Planners in Third World Countries -- Five City Planning: Promise and Reality -- 13. On the Illusions of City Planners -- 14. The Profession of City Planning -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.

"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 Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners' "base maps" to start with a richer understanding of human cultures. Borrup argues for cultural master plans in parallel to transportation, housing, parks, and other specialized plans, while also changing the approach of city comprehensive planning to put people or "users" first rather than land "uses" as does the dominant practice. Cultural plans as currently conceived are not sufficient to help cities keep pace with dizzying impacts of globalization, immigration, and rapidly changing cultural interests. Cultural planners need to up their game and enriching their own and city planners' cultural competencies is only one step. Both planning practices have much to learn from one another and already overlap in more ways than most recognize. This book highlights some of the strengths of the lesser-known practice of cultural planning to help forge greater understanding and collaboration between the two practices, empowering city planners with new tools to bring about more equitable communities. This will be an important resource for students, teachers, and practitioners of city and cultural planning, as well as municipal policy makers of all stripes"--