The American Planning Tradition

Foreword ix Michael J. Lacey The American Planning Tradition: An Introduction and Interpretation 1(32) Robert Fishman PART ONE TWO TRADITIONS Holding the Middle Ground 33(32) John L. Thomas The Metropolitan Tradition in American Planning 65(24) Robert Fishman PART TWO THE QUEST FOR NATIONAL PLANNING Federalism and National Planning: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy 89(58) Michael J. Lacey ``Watersheds'' in Regional Planning 147(26) James L. Wescoat, Jr. The National Resources Planning Board and the Reconstruction of Planning 173(20) Alan Brinkley Planning Environmentalism, and Urban Poverty: The Political Failure of National Land-Use Planning Legislation, 1970--1975 193(26) Margaret Weir PART THREE RECREATING THE ``COMMONS'': THE LOCAL EXPERIENCE Race and Renewal in the Cold War South: New Orleans, 1947-1968 219(22) Arnold R. Hirsch The Capital of Good Planning: Metropolitan Portland since 1970 241(22) Carl J. Abbott Local Initiative and Metropolitan Repetition: Chicago, 1972-1990 263(34) Judith A. Martin Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Reclaiming Common Ground: Water, Neighborhoods, and Public Places 297(18) Anne Whiston Spirn Contributors 315(2) Index 317