Terryl C. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195167115
- eISBN:
- 9780199785599
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167115.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The first Mormon structure was the Kirtland Temple, followed by the grander Nauvoo Temple. In Utah, Mormons built ward houses (often called chapels), tabernacles, and more temples. Their architecture ...
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The first Mormon structure was the Kirtland Temple, followed by the grander Nauvoo Temple. In Utah, Mormons built ward houses (often called chapels), tabernacles, and more temples. Their architecture is eclectic and derivative. Functional and pragmatic are the norm. They also pioneered city planning and built a literal Zion.Less
The first Mormon structure was the Kirtland Temple, followed by the grander Nauvoo Temple. In Utah, Mormons built ward houses (often called chapels), tabernacles, and more temples. Their architecture is eclectic and derivative. Functional and pragmatic are the norm. They also pioneered city planning and built a literal Zion.
JOHN DAVIS
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199260201
- eISBN:
- 9780191717352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199260201.003.0014
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, Economic History
Historians' preoccupation with planning as intellectual history threatens to obscure the process by which planners came into contact with ‘real’ societies, and the kind of negotiation entailed when ...
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Historians' preoccupation with planning as intellectual history threatens to obscure the process by which planners came into contact with ‘real’ societies, and the kind of negotiation entailed when planning departments sought to apply their projects to communities other than those in new towns or blitzed cities. This chapter seeks to capture this moment of engagement with civil society through a case study of a critical moment in the social rejection of top-down planning in Britain: the defeat of the Greater London Development Plan in the 1960s and 1970s.Less
Historians' preoccupation with planning as intellectual history threatens to obscure the process by which planners came into contact with ‘real’ societies, and the kind of negotiation entailed when planning departments sought to apply their projects to communities other than those in new towns or blitzed cities. This chapter seeks to capture this moment of engagement with civil society through a case study of a critical moment in the social rejection of top-down planning in Britain: the defeat of the Greater London Development Plan in the 1960s and 1970s.
Robert A. Beauregard
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226297255
- eISBN:
- 9780226297422
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226297422.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This chapter explores the various ways in which time appears in planning practice, particularly as it involves differentiating between a problematic present and a desired future and the centrality of ...
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This chapter explores the various ways in which time appears in planning practice, particularly as it involves differentiating between a problematic present and a desired future and the centrality of different temporal sequences to the development process. At the core of the chapter is a discussion of how the stabilization of relationships serves to define time. The argument is illustrated with a discussion of the history of city planning in New York City.Less
This chapter explores the various ways in which time appears in planning practice, particularly as it involves differentiating between a problematic present and a desired future and the centrality of different temporal sequences to the development process. At the core of the chapter is a discussion of how the stabilization of relationships serves to define time. The argument is illustrated with a discussion of the history of city planning in New York City.
Robert A. Beauregard
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226297255
- eISBN:
- 9780226297422
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226297422.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world from highway interchanges, retention ponds, and affordable housing units to zoning documents, conference rooms, and ...
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City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world from highway interchanges, retention ponds, and affordable housing units to zoning documents, conference rooms, and consultants’ reports. The material world of planning is acknowledged but insufficiently theorized. In Planning Matter, Robert Beauregard offers a new materialist perspective on planning practice that relies heavily on actor-network theory and science and technology studies to reveal the many ways in which the non-human things of the world mediate what planners say and do. In order to emphasize the importance of planners constantly imagining themselves “in the world,” the argument is illustrated with numerous empirical examples from planning practice in the United States. The result is a theoretical approach that recognizes the vibrancy of non-human matter and the fact that planners neither act alone nor solely with other human beings.Less
City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world from highway interchanges, retention ponds, and affordable housing units to zoning documents, conference rooms, and consultants’ reports. The material world of planning is acknowledged but insufficiently theorized. In Planning Matter, Robert Beauregard offers a new materialist perspective on planning practice that relies heavily on actor-network theory and science and technology studies to reveal the many ways in which the non-human things of the world mediate what planners say and do. In order to emphasize the importance of planners constantly imagining themselves “in the world,” the argument is illustrated with numerous empirical examples from planning practice in the United States. The result is a theoretical approach that recognizes the vibrancy of non-human matter and the fact that planners neither act alone nor solely with other human beings.
Joseph B. Raskin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253692
- eISBN:
- 9780823261109
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253692.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit ...
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The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit system did not expand and the people who played a role in the planning process. Emphasis is given to several proposes lines in particular and the impact that those plans had on growth and development of the areas that they would have served. Maps diagramming some of these lines are included. The Routes Not Taken also looks at how the subway and rail system has actually contracted in size, rather than expanded over the past 75 years through the elimination of a number of elevated lines without the construction of underground lines to replace them and the closure of other lines.Less
The Routes Not Built discusses the unrealized plans to extend New York City’s subway and commuter rail system beyond the limits of the system as it now exists. It examines the reasons why the transit system did not expand and the people who played a role in the planning process. Emphasis is given to several proposes lines in particular and the impact that those plans had on growth and development of the areas that they would have served. Maps diagramming some of these lines are included. The Routes Not Taken also looks at how the subway and rail system has actually contracted in size, rather than expanded over the past 75 years through the elimination of a number of elevated lines without the construction of underground lines to replace them and the closure of other lines.
Jacob Shell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780262029339
- eISBN:
- 9780262330404
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029339.003.0004
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Cultural and Historical Geography
The preceding chapters of the book are primarily focused on rural or inter-urban transportation. This final chapter suggests that, at least in some places, top-down fears of patterns of subversive ...
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The preceding chapters of the book are primarily focused on rural or inter-urban transportation. This final chapter suggests that, at least in some places, top-down fears of patterns of subversive mobility have also shaped transportation investments within cities. To make this case, the chapter uses the example of New York City. The chapter argues that elite refusals to invest in New York City’s freight infrastructure during the 1920s must be understood in the political context of the German sabotages and Red Scare of the 1910s. The memoirs of the city’s bomb squad captain during the 1910s indicate a local official perception that the inner city’s primary methods and spaces for freight-handling—the lighter-boats of New York Harbor, the city’s riverfront piers, and the adjacent urban complex of factories which made use of this local freight transport network—were being utilized by politically subversive parties. Ultimately, elite refusals to modernize the inner city’s freight-handling facilities helped to undermine New York City’s strength as a manufacturing center.Less
The preceding chapters of the book are primarily focused on rural or inter-urban transportation. This final chapter suggests that, at least in some places, top-down fears of patterns of subversive mobility have also shaped transportation investments within cities. To make this case, the chapter uses the example of New York City. The chapter argues that elite refusals to invest in New York City’s freight infrastructure during the 1920s must be understood in the political context of the German sabotages and Red Scare of the 1910s. The memoirs of the city’s bomb squad captain during the 1910s indicate a local official perception that the inner city’s primary methods and spaces for freight-handling—the lighter-boats of New York Harbor, the city’s riverfront piers, and the adjacent urban complex of factories which made use of this local freight transport network—were being utilized by politically subversive parties. Ultimately, elite refusals to modernize the inner city’s freight-handling facilities helped to undermine New York City’s strength as a manufacturing center.
Karl F. Seidman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199945511
- eISBN:
- 9780199333189
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945511.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This book documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Two ...
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This book documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Two introductory chapters address Katrina’s impact and the planning and public-sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Three chapters present and analyze rebuilding narratives for six New Orleans neighborhoods. In the heavily flooded Broadmoor and Village de L’Est neighborhoods, residents coalesced around communitywide initiatives, one through a neighborhood association and the second under church leadership, to help homeowners return and restore housing, get key public facilities and businesses rebuilt and create new civic capacity. Another chapter shows how differing socioeconomic conditions, geography, government policies and neighborhood capacity and responses combined to create varied recovery trajectories across four adjacent neighborhoods in the center of the city. A concluding chapter argues that grassroots and neighborhood scale initiatives can make important contributions to city recovery in four areas: repopulation, restoring “complete neighborhoods” with key services and amenities, rebuilding parts of the small business economy and enhancing recovery capacity. It also calls for more balanced investment and policies to rebuild rental housing, deliberate collaboration with community-based organizations to undertake and implement recovery plans, and changes to federal disaster recovery policies.Less
This book documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. Two introductory chapters address Katrina’s impact and the planning and public-sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Three chapters present and analyze rebuilding narratives for six New Orleans neighborhoods. In the heavily flooded Broadmoor and Village de L’Est neighborhoods, residents coalesced around communitywide initiatives, one through a neighborhood association and the second under church leadership, to help homeowners return and restore housing, get key public facilities and businesses rebuilt and create new civic capacity. Another chapter shows how differing socioeconomic conditions, geography, government policies and neighborhood capacity and responses combined to create varied recovery trajectories across four adjacent neighborhoods in the center of the city. A concluding chapter argues that grassroots and neighborhood scale initiatives can make important contributions to city recovery in four areas: repopulation, restoring “complete neighborhoods” with key services and amenities, rebuilding parts of the small business economy and enhancing recovery capacity. It also calls for more balanced investment and policies to rebuild rental housing, deliberate collaboration with community-based organizations to undertake and implement recovery plans, and changes to federal disaster recovery policies.
Peter Newman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847426673
- eISBN:
- 9781447305545
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847426673.003.0011
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter explores London's status as a global city and the impact of this on public policy. It examines current policy priorities, in particular for planning and economic development, based on ...
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This chapter explores London's status as a global city and the impact of this on public policy. It examines current policy priorities, in particular for planning and economic development, based on analysis of a series of planning strategies for London and its wider regional context and reform of governance institutions, including the Mayor and the London Assembly. The chapter examines the potential impacts of the global economic crisis, including any changes in the regulation of financial services, on the wider planning of a global city, and the importance of government and strategic planning policies as well as market trends. It argues that the future competitiveness of London as a global city is the main force behind successive plans for the capital. London-wide government has been reformed over the past 30 years and we should anticipate further future changes in the relationships between national government, the London Boroughs, and London-wide institutions.Less
This chapter explores London's status as a global city and the impact of this on public policy. It examines current policy priorities, in particular for planning and economic development, based on analysis of a series of planning strategies for London and its wider regional context and reform of governance institutions, including the Mayor and the London Assembly. The chapter examines the potential impacts of the global economic crisis, including any changes in the regulation of financial services, on the wider planning of a global city, and the importance of government and strategic planning policies as well as market trends. It argues that the future competitiveness of London as a global city is the main force behind successive plans for the capital. London-wide government has been reformed over the past 30 years and we should anticipate further future changes in the relationships between national government, the London Boroughs, and London-wide institutions.
Andrew Deener, Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Forrest Stuart
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199778386
- eISBN:
- 9780199332588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199778386.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter surveys the political, institutional, and economic evolution that has accompanied the dramatic changes in Los Angeles planning and development policy over the past two decades, both in ...
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This chapter surveys the political, institutional, and economic evolution that has accompanied the dramatic changes in Los Angeles planning and development policy over the past two decades, both in the neighborhood periphery and the downtown core. The creation of neighborhood councils (NCs) in 2000 as part of a new voter-approved city charter provided an institutional mechanism for local groups to participate in shaping their communities. Although NCs received few formal powers and were designed primarily to serve in an advisory capacity, the councils came to serve as effective institutional focal points and “fire alarms” for mobilizing constituencies that opposed continued of development in their neighborhoods. The chapter examines the Venice NC experience in the historical context of shifting battles between local groups with different visions of community, development, and public space. It looks at the Downtown Renaissance and megaprojects in the context of the changing politics and institutions of L.A. planning and development. It also considers the use of the police power in the arsenal of pro-growth public policies.Less
This chapter surveys the political, institutional, and economic evolution that has accompanied the dramatic changes in Los Angeles planning and development policy over the past two decades, both in the neighborhood periphery and the downtown core. The creation of neighborhood councils (NCs) in 2000 as part of a new voter-approved city charter provided an institutional mechanism for local groups to participate in shaping their communities. Although NCs received few formal powers and were designed primarily to serve in an advisory capacity, the councils came to serve as effective institutional focal points and “fire alarms” for mobilizing constituencies that opposed continued of development in their neighborhoods. The chapter examines the Venice NC experience in the historical context of shifting battles between local groups with different visions of community, development, and public space. It looks at the Downtown Renaissance and megaprojects in the context of the changing politics and institutions of L.A. planning and development. It also considers the use of the police power in the arsenal of pro-growth public policies.
Kristen Van Hooreweghe, Steve Lang, and William Kornblum
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199778386
- eISBN:
- 9780199332588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199778386.003.0015
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
A twenty-first century urban land ethic necessarily involves a combination of city planning, national environmental regulations, and local citizen activism. This chapter explores the consequences and ...
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A twenty-first century urban land ethic necessarily involves a combination of city planning, national environmental regulations, and local citizen activism. This chapter explores the consequences and contradictions of this hybrid approach to urban environmental policy, paying specific attention to the role of citizen activism in engendering a land ethic for a city of water. It shows that in the work of enlightened leaders and dedicated grassroots activists in the Bronx, the Jamaica Bay watershed, and neighborhoods and communities throughout the City, New Yorkers are finding their own versions of a land ethnic in this city of water.Less
A twenty-first century urban land ethic necessarily involves a combination of city planning, national environmental regulations, and local citizen activism. This chapter explores the consequences and contradictions of this hybrid approach to urban environmental policy, paying specific attention to the role of citizen activism in engendering a land ethic for a city of water. It shows that in the work of enlightened leaders and dedicated grassroots activists in the Bronx, the Jamaica Bay watershed, and neighborhoods and communities throughout the City, New Yorkers are finding their own versions of a land ethnic in this city of water.
