Work

Planned City

Year: 2019

Type: reference-entry

Abstract: Planned city is a recurring theme in the history of urban planning but its objectives, underlying visions, and contextual frames have varied in different places and times. This entry provides an overview of the planned city and discusses some of the most influential types including the garden city, the functional city, the monumental city, and the eco city. It argues that, while visionary idealism often presents the best urban planning, stripped of its social context and devoid of democratic processes, a blank canvas approach can have dire sociospatial consequences.

Source: The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

DOI: 10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0240

Author: Simin Davoudi

Institution: Newcastle University

Language: English

Topic: Urban Planning and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4244830101

Cites: 10

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