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Planning, Urban, &
Architectural Theory
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Bibliography
Planning Theory
- JANE JACOBS HOME PAGE
University of Virginia Student Planning site that includes a reasonably complete
bibiliography of Jacob's work and some commentary.
- PLANNING PLANNING
THEORY
An overview of Rational Comprehensive Planning and Incrementalism. Includes
a bibliography and descriptions of how each mode of planning operates.
Positivism and Post-Positivism
- IN BETWEEN POSITIVISM AND POST-POSITIVISM. A PERSONAL DEFENSE OF EMPIRICAL APPROACHES
TO SOCIAL SCIENCES
A paper presented by Olivia Rusu-Toderean, republished in the Romanian journal:
East: Political Science Review, Vol. 6 (Fall 2000). Ruso-Toderean is an assistant
professor in the Political Science Department at Babes-Bolyai University.
- POSITIVISM &
POST-POSITIVISM
An overview of positivism and post-positivism by William M.K. Trochim, Cornell
University.
- TOWARDS
A POST-POSITIVIST TYPOLOGY OF PLANNING THEORY
An article (pdf format) originally published in Planning Theory, 2002 by Philip
Allmendinger. Allmendinger also wrote a Planning in Postmodern Times.
Urban Theory: New Urbanism
Resource Directory from Cyburbia, includes a broad range of
materials covering current urban design movements, as well as the theories behind
new urbanism.
An interview with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk,
two of the founders of New Urbanism and the authors of Suburban Nation: The
Rise of Sprawl, published in Atlantic
Unbound (April
26, 2000). Duany and Plater-Zyberk argue that community planning is the best,
and perhaps only, antidote to sprawl.
Architectural Theory
  
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