Routledge Handbook of Planning History

<p><strong>2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient</strong> </p><p></p><p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Planning History</i> offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, <em>The Routledge </em><i>Handbook of Planning History</i> explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges. </p><p></p><p>A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, <em>The Routledge </em><i>Handbook of Planning History </i>explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history.</p> <p>Acknowledgements</p><p></p><p>Notes on Contributors</p><p>Chapter 1: The What, Why, and How of Planning History,<b> </b><i>Carola Hein</i></p><p>Part I: Writing Planning History: Agents, Theories, Methods, and Typologies </p><p>Chapter 2: The Pioneers, Institutions, and Vehicles of Planning History<b>, </b><i>Stephen V. Ward</i></p><p>Chapter 3: Interdisciplinarity in Planning History<b>, </b><i>Nancy H. Kwak</i></p><p>Chapter 4: Planning History and Theory: Institutions, Comparison, and Temporal<b> </b>Processes,<b> </b><i>André Sorensen</i></p><p>Chapter 5: The History of Planning Methodology<b>, </b><i>Peter Batey</i> </p><p>Chapter 6: Biographical Method,<b> </b><i>Robert Freestone</i></p><p>Chapter 7: Planning Diffusion: Agents, Mechanisms, Networks, and Theories<b>, </b><i>Stephen V. Ward</i></p><p>Chapter 8: Global Systems Foundations of the Discipline: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Other Power Structures<b>,</b> <i>Robert Home</i></p><p>Part II: Time, Place, and Culture: From Euro-American to Global Planning History</p><p></p><p>Chapter 9: The Ancient Past in the Urban Present: The Use of Early Models in Urban Design,<b> </b><i>Michael E. Smith and Carola Hein </i></p><p>Chapter 10: Writing Planning History in the English-Speaking World,<b> </b><i>Robert Freestone</i></p><p>Chapter 11: Key Planning Histories of the Developing Western Tradition from the Mid-19th Century to the Early-20th Century,<b> </b><i>David Massey</i></p><p>Chapter 12: <i>Urbanisme, Urbanismo, Urbanistica</i>: Latin European Urbanism,<b> </b><i>Javier Monclús and Carmen Díez Medina</i></p><p>Chapter 13: <i>Urbanisme</i> and the Francophone Sphere,<b> </b><i>Clément Orillard</i> </p><p>Chapter 14: The German Traditions of <i>Städtebau</i> and <i>Stadtlandschaft </i>and Their Diffusion Through Global Exchange,<b> </b><i>Celina Kress </i></p>