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Thinking Planning and Urbanism

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Description for Thinking Planning and Urbanism Paperback. By exposing the details of the Dundas Square area in Toronto, this book shows how city planners can be overwhelmed by the machinations of money and power, and why the planning field is ill-equipped to find creative solutions for post-industrial problems. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 b&w photos, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 4217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.

When manufacturers and retailers vacate traditional locations, they leave holes in a city’s fabric that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. Who should mend these spaces, and how should they approach the problem?

Using Toronto’s Dundas Square and surrounding area as a case study, Thinking Planning and Urbanism meticulously reconstructs the redevelopment process to explore the theories and practices used. It traces the labyrinth of competing interests that can sideline and nearly overwhelm the public planning function. In these circumstances, Moore Milroy concludes, practising planners are marooned by planning theories that begin from the premise that urban space is a social construction ... Read more

This book makes plain the nature of the gap between the practice of planning and its theories, a gap that inhibits planners from effectively championing creative actions to deal with postindustrial problems. The findings drawn from this case will be widely recognized in redevelopment elsewhere and thus will be extremely useful to students and practitioners of urban design, public administration, municipal law, and urban and regional planning.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774816151
SKU
V9780774816151
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Beth Moore Milroy
Beth Moore Milroy, professor emerita, is former director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson University and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners.

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