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Variable Neighborhood Search.

Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sicknessa quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditionshas contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of social organization, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanize the market and the administrative state. In their new Introduction the authors relate the argument of their book both to the current realities of American society and to the growing debate about the country's future. With this new edition one of the most influential books of recent times takes on a new immediacy.\

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life

Abstract Information is a source of power in the planning process. This article begins by assessing five perspectives of the planner's use of information: those of the technician, the incremental pragmatist, the liberal advocate, the structuralist, and the “progressive.” Then several types of misinformation (inevitable or unnecessary, ad hoc or systematic) are distinguished in a reformulation of bounded rationality in planning, and practical responses by planning staff are identified. The role and ethics of planners acting as sources of misinformation are considered. In practice planners work in the face of power manifest as the social and political (mis)-man-agement of citizens' knowledge, consent, trust, and attention. Seeking to enable planners to anticipate and counteract sources of misinformation threatening public serving, democratic planning processes, the article clarifies a practical and politically sensitive form of “progressive” planning practice.

Planning in the Face of Power.

Strategic facility location: A review

ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1985: John W. Dyckman

Haven't been able to finish Piketty (2014; reviewed in JAPA, Spring 2014, Vol. 80. No 2)? Haven't even started, although you bought the book last year? There is a simpler alternative, without the b...

The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It, by Timothy Noah / America's Growing Inequality: The Impact of Poverty and Race, by Chester Hartman (Ed.)

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A Review of “The New Science of Cities”

the late-colonial times which exceeded earlier political-economic linkages, preceded globalisation and outlived the imperial world city Liverpool. Second, investigating the grounding of these transnational social webs and networks, Bunnell demonstrates how the Malay Club operated as the site of Malayness in Liverpool, and exposes its translocal connections to the Malay world in Southeast Asia. Third, considering the people he met at 7 Jermyn Street as a lived archive of memory, the author draws attention to relational urban geographies derived from lives lived in actual places. It would have been useful if the author had highlighted how this study questions economic and other mainstream views and determinisms, and how the inside-out investigation of a particular place/space provides intellectual tools useful for other places, thus pushing the boundary of contemporary knowledge a bit more. This concern notwithstanding, the book is both informative and provides deep and complex insights.

Book review: The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles:

As a theorist, teacher, researcher, editor, and institution builder in the fields of city planning and transportation, Melvin Webber (always known as Mel) was far ahead of his time, playing a major role in the development of these fields, both academically and professionally, over a fifty-year span. A product of the University of Texas institutional economics school of thought, Mel’s contributions to urban planning theory centered on two sets of ideas that he developed beginning in the early 1960s. Reflecting on the complexity of urban development in an age of rapidly growing communications and mobility, he challenged the conceptual foundations of the field, postulating that urban planners and transportation analysts should focus less on the notion of place and more on the linkages and connections, both physical and informational, that bound together what he called “nonplace realms” (Webber 1964). Seeing the city as, in effect, a giant switchboard, he anticipated by decades currently fashionable views of the network society. In the light of new forms of communication and the prevalence of the automobile, he argued that concentrated, denser urban forms were not necessarily more desirable than more dispersed settlements. These ideas were influential in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, especially in the design of the new town of Milton Keynes. Unlike other British “New Towns,” Milton Keynes embraced the automobile, leading to fierce debates among planners and urban designers:

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ACSP Distinguished Educator, 1985: John W. Dyckman

The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It, by Timothy Noah / America's Growing Inequality: The Impact of Poverty and Race, by Chester Hartman (Ed.)

A Review of “The New Science of Cities”

Book review: The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles:

ACSP Distinguished Educator, 2000: Melvin M. Webber: