The Profession of City Planning

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This book holds up a mirror for examining the roles, images, and practices of city planning at the turn of the millennium. In thirty-five vital, provocative, and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years. These chapters appraise what planners do and how well they do it, how and why their current activities differ from past practices, and how much and in what ways planners have or have not enhanced the quality of urban life and contributed to the intellectual capital of the field. How have the assumptions, goals, values, and practices of planners changed over time? What do planners report about the roles they play and the problems they confront? How have the tools of planning changed? What is the relevance of planners' skills and perspectives, from design capabilities and environmental savvy to intermediate- and long-term perspectives and the pragmatics of implementation? The list of contributors who seek to answer these questions reads like a "Who's Who in Planning": William Alonso Christie I. Baxter Lawrence Bobo Phillip L. Clay Ernesto Cortés, Jr. Anthony Downs John Forester Dennis Frenchman Bernard J. Frieden Ralph Gakenheimer Nathan Glazer Bennett Harrison Chester Hartman Philip B. Herr Con Howe Judith E. Innes Andrew M. Isserman Allan B. Jacobs Alex Krieger Ann Markusen Leonard Ortolano Lloyd Rodwin Witold Rybczynski Bishwapriya Sanyal Donald Schön Terry S. Szold Israel Stollman Lawrence Susskind Michael B. Teitz Lawrence J. Vale Martin Wachs Robert D. Yaro Sam Bass Warner, Jr.