If indeed they can be traced back this far, may we not adduce this to a condition of all
city planning, though some may well emerge that differentiate the possibilities of
city planning from architecture.
Jon Peterson's The Birth of
City Planning in the United States is an attempt to divine the origins of the
city planning movement since 1840, and while its closing pages take the story briefly into the 1990s, it is the role of planning and planners in the decade before the First World War--the Progressive Era--that is his primary focus.
He has engaged in
city planning projects in New York's Manhattan and the Nigerian capital Abuja, and in an environment park project in Tehran.
"Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) is designed to be predictable, feasible and permanent," said
City Planning Commission chairman Carl Weisbrod, in a statement.
According to Jenni Faulkner, Burnsville
city planning and development director, chair of the month-long observance, cities across America will be inviting citizens to discuss how quality planning for communities and smart growth will improve cities and regions as well as protect them.
City planning is often a stalking horse for social engineering; as a characteristic manifesto of New Urbanism declares, "Community planning and design must assert the importance of public over private values." The New City, however, is not a paean to the virtues of planning.
Carol Samol, Director, Bronx Office, New York City Department of
City Planning; Carl Weisbrod, Director of the New York City Department of
City Planning, chairman of the New York
City Planning Commission.
Citizens and pubic and private sector leaders must get involved and support better city and regional planning and action for better quality communities, according to NLC and the American
City Planning Directors' Council and its American City Quality Foundation during American City Quality Month, celebrated this April.
The early Russians who settled after the Second World War regarded the Baltic enclave as the new frontier -- 'modern', where
city planning and architecture could start from scratch.
Last year, when the Tennessee legislature passed the Urban Growth Policy Act - nicknamed the "smart growth" law, after the most recent fad in
city planning - it didn't want to leave anything to chance.