The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S. and throughout the world. Edited by Rachel Weber and Randall Crane professors at two leading planning institutes in the United States this handbook collects together over 45 noted field experts to discuss three key questions: Why plan? How and what do we plan? Who plans for whom? These three questions are then applied across three major topics in planning: States Markets and the Provision of Social Goods; The Methods and Substance of Planning; and Agency Implementation and Decision Making. Covering the key components of the discipline this book is a comprehensive discipline-defining text suited for students and seasoned planners alike.