Comparative planning cultures /

Papers submitted to a semester-long symposium organized by the editor at MIT in Spring 2002..

Hybrid planning cultures: and the search for the global cultural commons / Bishwapriya Sanyal -- Planning cultures in an era of transition / John Friedmann -- Space of flows, space of places: materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age / Manuel Castells -- Planning culture in Iran: centralization and decentralization and local governance in the twentieth century (the case for uban management and planning) / Kian Tajbakhsh -- Modernity confronts tradition: the professional planner and local corporatism in the rebuilding of China's cities / Michael Leaf -- Planning cultures in two Chinese transitional cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen / Mee Kam Ng -- Understanding planning cultures: the Kolkata paradox / Tridip Banerjee -- Does planning culture matter? Dutch and American models in Indonesian urban transformations / Robert Cowherd -- Contending planning cultures and the urban built environment in Mexico City / Diane E. Davis -- The developmental state and the extreme narrowness of the public realm: the 20th century evolution of Japanese planning culture / Andr�e Soreneon -- The nature of difference: traditions of law and government and their effects on planning in Britain and France / Philip Booth -- The Netherlands: a culture with a soft spot for planning / Andreas Faludi -- Picking the paradoxes: an historical anatomy of Australian planning cultures / Leonie Sandercock -- US planning culture under pressure: major elements endure and flourish in the face of crises / Eugenie L. Birch..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-401) and index..