ABSTRACT

2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient

The Routledge Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges.

A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history.

part I|96 pages

Writing Planning History

chapter 4|11 pages

Planning History and Theory

Institutions, Comparison, and Temporal Processes

chapter 5|14 pages

The History of Planning Methodology

chapter 6|16 pages

Biographical Method

chapter 7|15 pages

Planning Diffusion

Agents, Mechanisms, Networks, and Theories

chapter 8|16 pages

Global Systems Foundations of the Discipline

Colonial, Postcolonial, and Other Power Structures

part II|192 pages

Time, Place, and Culture

chapter 9|12 pages

The Ancient Past in the Urban Present

The Use of Early Models in Urban Design

chapter 12|14 pages

Urbanisme, Urbanismo, Urbanistica

Latin European Urbanism

chapter 16|10 pages

From Urbanism to Planning Process

Convergences of Latin American Countries

chapter 17|12 pages

Southeast Asia

Colonial Discourses

chapter 18|14 pages

Postcolonial Southeast Asia

part III|157 pages

Sites and Dynamics

chapter 23|12 pages

Politics, Power, and Urban Form

chapter 24|12 pages

Planning for Economic Development

chapter 25|13 pages

Planning for Infrastructure

Lifelines, Mobility, and Urban Development

chapter 26|12 pages

Ports and Urban Waterfronts

chapter 27|16 pages

Urban Segments and Event Spaces

World’s Fairs and Olympic Sites

chapter 28|11 pages

Public Health and Urban Planning

Intertwined Histories

chapter 29|11 pages

Urbanism, Housing, and the City

chapter 32|11 pages

Livability and Environmental Sustainability

From Smoky to Livable Cities

chapter 33|13 pages

Disasters

Recovery, Re-planning, Reconstruction, and Resilience

part IV|37 pages

Futures

chapter 35|9 pages

Educating Planners in History

A Global Perspective

chapter 36|10 pages

The Imprint of History in the Practice of City and Regional Planning

Lessons from the Cincinnati Case, 1925–2012

chapter 37|9 pages

Death of the Author, Center, and Meta-Theory

Emerging Planning Histories and Expanding Methods of the Early 21st Century