{"product_id":"contemporary-urban-planning-paperback","title":"Contemporary Urban Planning - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn M. Levy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSonia A. Hirt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCasey J. Dawkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eContemporary Urban Planning, 12e\u003c\/em\u003e provides students with an unvarnished and in-depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlanning is a highly political activity. Urban and regional planning decisions often involve large sums of money, both public and private, with the potential to deliver large benefits to some and losses to others. The extensively revised edition of this beloved text tackles the most pressing recent issues in urban development, including: \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ecurrent demographic, technological, and lifestyle changes and the possibility for a major turn toward reurbanization\/urban revitalization after decades of decentralization; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ean expanded consideration of contemporary means of public participation in planning; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe impact of contemporary social movements on planning, and the rising importance of social equity as a major planning objective; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe affordable housing shortage facing cities in many large U.S. metropolitan areas; - making cities more adaptable to micro-mobility; \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eenvironmental goals and the role of planners in responding to global climate change, current public-health challenges, and major environmental catastrophes; and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe effect of varied applications of land use controls and other planning policies in different countries and under different political regimes, with case study examples from the UK, France, Eastern Europe, China, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thoroughly updated new edition also benefits from resources to help classroom instruction, both in the text and online. These include discussion and multiple-choice questions, and links for students to online supplemental readings, websites, and media sources. \u003ci\u003eContemporary Urban Planning \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential resource for students, city planners, and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban development problems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCisit the Instructor and Student Resources: www.routledge.com\/cw\/levy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn M. Levy \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSonia A. Hirt\u003c\/b\u003e is Dean and Hughes Professor in Landscape Architecture and Planning at the College of Environment + Design at the University of Georgia, United States. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Planning History\u003c\/i\u003e and has been on the editorial boards of nine other scholarly journals. She was a Guggenheim Fellow (2023-2024). Her research focuses on culture, cities, and space, especially in Europe and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCasey J. Dawkins \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Urban Studies and Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a faculty member of the National Center for Smart Growth, at the University of Maryland, United States. 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