Contemporary Urban Planning 10th Edition by John M. Levy
ISBN-13: 9780205851737
ISBN-10: 0205851738
The term Planning is a very general one. There are city and town planners
and also corporate planners. The Pentagon employs numerous
military planners. The launching of a space shuttle is the culmination
of a tremendously complex and sophisticated planning process. And
so on.
Planning in its generic meaning, then, is an ubiquitous activity. All
types of planning have a conscious effort in common to systematically
improve the quality of decision making. The planning discussed in this
book is a very small part of the total planning activity in the United States.
Specifically, this book focuses on public planning at the substate level, that
done by and for cities, counties, towns, and other units of local governments.
We will also examine, much more briefly, planning for metropolitan
regions, the states, and the question of national planning. One chapter contains
a brief survey of planning in other nations.
