Comparative planning cultures / edited by Bishwapriya Sanyal

Contributors -- Preface -- Part I. Overview: 1. Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons / Bishwapriya Sanyal -- Part II. Two Theoretical Propositions: 2. Planning Cultures in Transition / John Friedmann ; 3. Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age / Manuel Castells -- Part III. The Traffic of Planning Ideas in Industrializing Nations: 4. Planning Culture in Iran: Centralization and Decentralization and Local Governance in the Twentieth Century (The Case for Urban Management and Planning) / Kian Tajbakhsh ; 5. Modernity Confronts Tradition: The Professional Planner and Local Corporatism in the Rebuilding of China's Cities / Michael Leaf ; 6. Planning Cultures in Two Chinese Transitional Cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen / Mee Kam Ng ; 7. Understanding Planning Cultures: The Kolkata Paradox / Tridib Banerjee ; 8. Does Planning Culture Matter? Dutch and American Models in Indonesian Urban Transformations / Robert Cowherd ; 9. Contending Planning Cultures and the Urban Built Environment in Mexico City / Diane E. Davis -- Part IV. Planning Cultures and Social Chance: The Experience of Industrialized Nations: 10. The Developmental State and the Extreme Narrowness of the Public Realm: The Twentieth Century Evolution of Japanese Planning Culture / André Sorensen ; 11. The Nature of Difference: Traditions of Law and Government and Their Effects on Planning in Britain and France / Philip Booth ; 12. The Netherlands: A Culture with a Soft Spot for Planning / Andreas Faludi ; 13. Picking the Paradoxes: A Historical Anatomy of Australian Planning Cultures / Leonie Sandercock ; 14. U.S. Planning Culture under Pressure: Major Elements Endure and Flourish in the Face of Crises / Eugenie L. Birch -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index