Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The scholarly thrust of urban planning is its use of, as well as its contribution to, social science. As a discipline bordering with civil engineering, furthermore, urban planning has always carried also an important cross-disciplinary message beyond social science. Yet the association of urban planning with humanistic disciplines and the fine arts has been undervalued or ignored altogether. At a time when the vast majority of humanity resides in cities, however, this association is implicit in the primary purpose of urban planning, as a constituent of contemporary social, scientific and technological progress, aimed at the advancement of both society as well as the individual human being.
Source: InTech eBooks
DOI: 10.5772/34331
Author: Abraham Akkerman
Institution: University of Saskatchewan
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1525883101