The Urban Planning Imagination. Nicholas A. Phelps

      1  Cover

      2  Dedication

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright Page

      5  List of figures and tables Figures Tables

      6  Preface

      7  1 Introduction: what is planning? Introduction The urban planning imagination Who plans? History and the urban planning imagination Geography and the urban planning imagination Urban planning’s enduring appeal The structure of the book Notes

      8  2 Imagination: what is planning’s spirit and purpose? Introduction Who plans? Citizens Clubs States Mixes of actors The history and temporality of planning Macro-historical change: empires, economic systems and states Meso-level institutions of states The micro-level The temporalities of urban planning The geography of the urban planning imagination Bounded places: neighbourhood, city, region, nation, metropolis and megalopolis Sites and neighbourhoods Regional planning Megalopolitan realities National planning Networks, flows and virtual urban planning Cities as nodes within networks Flows: the metabolism of cities Virtuality and synchronicity Conclusion Notes

      9  3 Substance: what are the objects of planning? Introduction Shelter Cities without slums: seeing like a state Housing as externality: club solutions to state failings House as home: the latent informality of household desires Health Water, food and air The infirmity of the city? Mobility Automobility and its systemic urban planning legacies High-speed rail and aeromobility: the interplaces yet to come? Virtual mobility and its effects Sustainability Environmental designations: the paradoxes of planning for the city and its other Eco- and other city forms Urban metabolism in an urban age of climate change and hazards Economy Economic growth: a state obsession The circular urban economy The alternative economies of clubs and citizens Conclusion Notes

      10  4 Wisdom: what does planning teach us? Introduction Justice and equity The tragedy of the commons and other wicked problems Urban planning, externalities and land-value capture Externalities Private property, externalities, betterment and compensation Unintended consequences Planning failures great and small Self-fulfilling prophecies of planning for mobility Failures to plan with nature Inabilities