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Place renaming, jurisdictional integration, and political representation: lessons from South Africa Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Stefan Chavez-Norgaard
Since South Africa’s 1994 transition from apartheid to democracy, the African National Congress (ANC) has advanced place renaming alongside jurisdictional rescaling. This confluence allows scholars...
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Historia de las Villas en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires: Desde los orígenes hasta nuestros días [History of the shantytowns in the city of Buenos Aires: from the origins to the present] Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Claudia Gabriela Reta
Published in Planning Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Frederick Law Olmsted. Architecte du paysage [Frederick Law Olmsted: architect of landscape] Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Gaia Caramellino
Published in Planning Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Garden suburb: path and reinterpretations of an ideal: London, Paris and São Paulo Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 José Geraldo Simões Junior
This article explores the path of the reformist concept of garden suburb. It covers the initial idea in England to its dissemination and later re-appropriation in France and in Brazil. The project ...
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Evolving security motifs, Olympic spectacle and urban planning legacy: from militarization to security-by-design Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jon Coaffee
This paper examines the form, function and impact of previous Olympic security arrangements and their intersection with planning practice. Drawing from prior and ongoing empirical research investig...
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Jakarta: the city of a thousand dimensions Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Christopher Silver
Published in Planning Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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VI International Seminar on Urban Form – Hispanic (ISUF-H) 2022. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Published in Planning Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Lizabeth Cohen
It is commonly assumed that urban renewal in the United States following World War II was a home-grown solution applied to cities suffering from the departure of residents, retail, and capital inve...
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Planning and construction of the British concessions and settlements in modern East Asia (1845–1876): Shanghai, Yokohama, and Tianjin Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Shuting Sun, Nobuo Aoki, Subin Xu
Under British informal imperial policy, East Asia’s system of concessions and settlements rapidly spread and promoted modernization. Especially in the mid- to late nineteenth century, the formative...
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Planning ports in proximity: Koper and Trieste after 1945 Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Martin Valinger Sluga, Lucija Ažman Momirski
This study examines the port planning dynamics of the neighbouring ports of Koper (Slovenia) and Trieste (Italy) since the Second World War. Through an analysis of port-related planning documents, ...
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Limits of inter-American cooperation: large dams and urban planning in Latin America after 1945 Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Frederik Schulze
Large dams are crucial sites for urban planning because they normally require the construction of relocated settlements, industrial towns, and workers’ camps. After 1945, Latin America emerged as o...
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Concrete city: material flows and urbanization in West Africa Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Maren Larsen
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Product and process: New York’s Model Cities vest-pocket housing and rehabilitation programme Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Susanne Schindler
In January 1966, US President Lyndon Johnson proposed the Model Cities programme to ‘improve the quality of urban life’ in the nation’s poorest areas through comprehensive action and citizen partic...
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Sultanahmet, Istanbul’s historic peninsula: musealization and urban conservation Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Mesut Dinler
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Broker power: real estate brokers in the St. Louis Model Cities program, 1966–1975 Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Morris Speller
Evaluations of Model Cities have focused on whether federal officials and local planners lived up to the programme’s rhetoric of citizen empowerment. However, as this case study of St. Louis will d...
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Model Cities at fifty: afterlives Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Susanne Schindler
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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States of cultivation: imperial transition and scientific agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Zeead Yaghi
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Routledge handbook of Asian cities Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Creighton Connolly
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Black Arts/West and the ironies of development in Seattle’s ‘Other America’ Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Mark Krasovic
It is now commonplace to weave arts initiatives into community planning and development efforts. One historical foundation for this practice was the U.S. federal Model Cities programme, which promo...
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Marshall Plan or neocolonization? The Model Cities Program and Black planning criticism Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Jeremy Lee Wolin
This paper analyses the writing of Black activists, planners, and critics to reconcile two opposing perceptions of the Model Cities Program: an initiative known for its elevation of Black elected o...
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On the police as infrastructure and managers in the African city Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Wangui Kimari
Using the example of Nairobi, this article calls for planning practitioners in, and scholars of, African urban spaces to reflect on the role of the police as infrastructure and managers in cities o...
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Naples: a city away from water Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Paolo De Martino
Over time, a large number of stakeholders have affected the Italian port city of Naples. The millenary history of Naples reveals a port that has been strongly intertwined with the city. Yet, recent...
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Unplanned rapid urban growth in Birjand, Iran (1986–2022) Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Mahdi Gheitasi, Ali Maddahi, Newsha Salari
This study investigates the transformation of Birjand from a historic city to a rapidly developing urban centre, with a focus on the effects of infrastructure and architectural development initiati...
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The Curtis Report as a critical juncture in Canadian urbanism Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 David L. A. Gordon
Canada's post-Second World War policies on urbanism were first outlined in an obscure government document – the 1944 report of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Planning of the federal gove...
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‘The first rearguard battle’: an analysis of the autarkic (re)planning for Spanish grain agriculture, 1937–1959 Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Isabel Rodríguez De la Rosa
This paper analyzes the process of reordering and intensification associated with the Spanish cereal sector, which began in 1937 under Franco's regime. Considering the process as a practice of desi...
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The urban planning transformation of Jaffa: pre and post-1948 perspectives Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Tony Rantissi
The urban planning evolution of Jaffa has been significantly shaped by political dynamics and conflict. Before 1948, Jaffa exhibited a diverse population and a distinctive urban layout reflective o...
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Unveiling the neo-Moroccan city: a historical exploration of Casablanca's Habous district (1917-1926) Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Rim Yassine Kassab
This article examines the history and significance of Casablanca's Habous district, a unique colonial urban experiment blending traditional Islamic and early 20th-century European principles. Built...
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A century of urban planning for Zanzibar’s other side, 1923–2023 Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Garth Andrew Myers
This paper interrogates what has and has not changed in 100 years of professional planning in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The geographical focus is on the area of the historic core of the city known as Ng’...
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Clean water supply and urban hygiene control in colonial Semarang, Indonesia Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mutiah Amini
This article discusses the endeavors of the municipality council of Semarang to establish a water governance system to tackle the crisis of safe water in the early twentieth century. The establishm...
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From HURPI to community corridor: the evolution of the central linear axis in South Korean new towns Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Sanghoon Jung, Nami Hong
This scholarly investigation provides a critical analysis of the developmental trajectory of the central linear axis in the context of South Korean new towns. The study traces the genealogy of this...
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A review of housing policy in post-war Yugoslavia and Kosovo Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Gazmend Uka
This study examines the literature on social housing in Yugoslavia and Kosovo, and covers different topics and approaches. By combining findings spanning the periods of development, construction te...
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Against the commons: a radical history of urban planning Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 John R. Gold
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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Historia y memoria de villas y favelas Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Leandro Benmergui
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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Tra simili, Storie incrociate dei quartieri italiani del secondo dopoguerra [Of the same type: connected stories of Italian neighbourhoods since the Second World War] Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 John Foot
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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In the Skin of the City. Spatial transformation in Luanda Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Carlos Nunes Silva
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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Obituary: Jean-Louis Cohen (20 July 1949–7 August 2023) Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Hartmut Frank
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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Israel’s largest landfill rehabilitation: creative landscape design as a catalyst for a functioning metropolis Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Galia Limor-Sagiv, Nurit Lissovsky, Naomi Angel
Urban rehabilitation of brownfields advances cities' resilience and contributes to residents' wellbeing and nature preservation. This article explores the transformation of one such site-Hiriya, on...
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‘Living beyond its present means’: World Bank push and local pushback over lowest-cost housing for postcolonial Dakar Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Helen Gyger
In mid-1972, the World Bank approved its first loan for a sites and services project, selecting Senegal for the location based on the country's prior experience with similar schemes. Through a clos...
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Local planning in the national provisions of the Polish Building Code of 1928 - a forgotten legacy Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Wojciech Korbel
Since the political transformation initiated in 1989, there has been a continuous discussion in Poland on the directions of reforming the spatial planning system and the principles of shaping space...
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Taming ‘wild’ Vienna? The handling of informal settlements by the planning authorities – perspectives, discourse, (counter)actions in the interwar and post-war periods Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Andre Krammer, Friedrich Hauer
This paper presents a periodized overview of informal urbanization in Vienna in the twentieth century. It offers a new perspective on the evolution of planning discourse and the phenomenon’s handli...
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How did the idea of the garden suburb emerge in the 1970s? An analysis based on the performance of the city of São Paulo company in São Paulo Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Sidney Piochi Bernardini, Ana Carolina Capelozza Mano
The City of São Paulo Improvements and Freehold Land Company Ltd (Cia. City) was founded in London in 1911 to promote subdivisions in the urban fringes of the city of São Paulo. By adapting to the ...
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The establishment process of Türk Traktör between 1948 and 1963: a critique of ‘modernization’ as development in Early Cold War Turkey Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Murat Iplikci, Gülşah Aykaç
Published in Planning Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Housing low-income populations as a Cold War geostrategic tool. The case of the Instituto de Credito Territorial’s Ciudad Kennedy in Colombia Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Victoria Eugenia Sanchez Holguin
This article demonstrates how two different, but related processes converge in the Ciudad Kennedy neighbourhood, built by the Instituto de Credito Territorial (ICT) on the outskirts of Bogotá, the ...
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Critical cartographies for assessing and designing with planning legacies: the case of Jaap Bakema’s Open Society in ‘t Hool, the Netherlands Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Juan Sanz Oliver, Gregory Bracken, Víctor Muñoz Sanz
The Open Society appeared as a concept in planning discourse at the Congrès International d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM XI). It attempted to create urban conditions which would allow society to pros...
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A Construção do Algarve. Arquitectura Moderna, Regionalismo e Identidade no Sul de Portugal, 1925–1965 [Algarve Building. Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in the South of Portugal, 1925–1965] Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Carla Garrido de Oliveira
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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On balance: architecture and vertigo Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Amy Butt
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Planning, history … and the environment? Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Cities alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, and the roots of Urban Renaissance Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Javier Monclús
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Manila’s Architectural Heritage 1571-1960. Volume 1 The Center: Intramuros, Binondo, San Nicolas, Tondo Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Ian Morley
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Avenue of the Americas. New York, biografia di una strada. [Avenue of the Americas. New York, biography of a street] Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 5, 2023)
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Theorizing the postcolonial city of Kuching: the socio-spatial production of colonial logistics Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Azmah Arzmi, Julaihi Wahid
ABSTRACT The city plan of Kuching is not influenced by systematic planning principles, but rather, it is deeply embedded within colonial infrastructural logistics to meet the demands of global trade services and social structures. The postcolonial city is a palimpsest of hierarchical and territorial imprints from former colonial governance. Much of urban growth is concentrated around nodes, prioritized
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Behind the metropolis: understanding Grand Paris through the history of its regional plans Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Frédéric Pousin, Nathalie Roseau
ABSTRACT The history of Grand Paris has been partly constructed around the markers provided in the major regional plans that have punctuated the development of the Greater Paris region, from the 1913 ‘Report for the enlargement of Paris’ to the 2009 ‘Grand Paris international consultation process’. By providing an epistemic framework for understanding the major regional plans, this article clearly
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A century of regionalisms: the Regional Plan Association of New York and the Regional Planning Association of America in comparative perspective Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Robert Fishman
ABSTRACT Despite their similarity in names and initials that has confused generations of planning students, the Regional Plan Association of New York (RPA, founded 1922) and the Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA, founded 1923) propounded very different visions of regionalism. The RPA, following the Plan of Chicago (1909), argued for what I call ‘metropolitan regionalism’, a rail-based
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Heritage conservation in postcolonial India: approaches and challenges Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Neel Kamal Chapagain
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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The grid and the park: public space and urban culture in Buenos Aires, 1887–1936 Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Filippo De Pieri
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Urban design in the 20th century: a history Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Peter J. Larkham
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Dwelling on the green line: privatize and rule in Israel/Palestine Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Yael Allweil
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Lorraine Leu, defiant Geographies: race and urban space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Leandro Benmergui
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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The Regional Planning Association of America at 100: a new exploration Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Stephen J. Ramos
Published in Planning Perspectives (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2023)
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Ngā pūtahitanga/Crossings: the 2022 joint conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand and the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group Planning Perspectives (IF 0.629) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Laura Dunham
ABSTRACT This report provides an overview of the 16th biennial conference of the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group, held for the first time in conjunction with the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, as the latter’s 39th annual conference, in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, 25–27 November 2022.