Table of Contents
Foreword /Michael J. Lacey --The American planning tradition: an introduction and interpretation /Robert Fishman --Part one:Two traditions.Holding the middle ground /John L. Thomas --The metropolitan tradition in American planning /Robert Fishman --Part two:The quest for national planning.Federalism and national planning: the nineteenth-century legacy /Michael J. Lacey --"Watersheds" in regional planning /James L. Wescoat, Jr. --The National Resources Planning Board and the reconstruction of planning /Alan Brinkley --Planning environmentalism, and urban poverty: the political failure of national land-use planning legislation, 1970-1975 /Margaret Weir --Part three:Recreating the "commons": the local experience.Race and renewal in the Cold War South: New Orleans, 1947-1968 /Arnold R. Hirsch --The capital of good planning: metropolitan Portland since 1970 /Carl J. Abbott --Local initiative and metropolitan repetition: Chicago, 1972-1990 /Judith A. Martin and Sam Bass Warner, Jr. --Reclaiming common ground: water, neighborhoods, and public places /Anne Whiston Spirn.