...This chapter examines the interactions between urban planners, drivers, and market socialism in Belgrade, Yugoslavia’s capital city, during the period 1945–1972. More specifically, it considers the evolution in urban planners’ attitude toward automobility from the adoption of Belgrade’s first...

...This chapter discusses the designing and founding of the United Nations. The main problem that U.S. postwar planners faced was how to design a global organization that followed democratic principles and recognized certain universal rights. The discussion looks at the postgeographic ambition...

... and communist ideology. Toward the war's end, Japanese planners began including the United States as a factor in the changing geopolitics of the Eurasian and Pacific convergence, in seeking to secure national survival. Also, political factions within China and Korea and their networks with the United States...

...This article analyzes whether urban planners should serve as handmaidens to enable old boys' deal making or act as facilitative leaders to stage power-sensitive, results-oriented public deliberations. It explores how urban planning can communicatively empower or disempower stakeholders, include...

... that perennially confront and guide military planners. The second section reviews the character of contemporary logistics. This refers to those particular issues that have confronted Western militaries in adapting from Cold War defence postures and the modes of transformation they have adopted. The third section...

...This article attempts to demonstrate that the work of urban planners and economists is built on a common language, and hence should share ideas. Their agendas broadly overlap, but many in either profession do not realize this. Understanding the microeconomic foundations of the array of problems...

...This chapter retraces the 100-year history of reforms to the health system of Puerto Rico, beginning with the U.S. occupation in 1898. It highlights the shifting organizing principles of health planners and regulators, which include sanitation and controlling communicable diseases during the first...

... undertheorized element in the social organization of space that needs to be added to accounts of Vietnamese village morphology. The Trans-Asia Highway upgrade was directed by urban, regional, political, and economic planners; financed by the government and the Asian Development Bank; and supported at least...

...This chapter focuses on the new models of rural colonization devised by Zionist planners. In devising these models, planners were contending with familiar ideological, cultural, and economic issues. However, the main problem they confronted, as in the decade prior to Independence...

...Looking at attempts of the Soviet Union in the mid-20th century to install changes in its agricultural system illustrates discrepancies that existed at that time between plans and reality. Although it is noted here that this move failed, it is clear that Soviet planners did not intend to invent...

...This chapter considers the role of planners in reform processes by outlining how they can be understood as professional technical experts, as subjects of neoliberalism and as frontline ‘Street-level Bureaucrats’. This leads to an exploration of ‘sociological institutionalism’, which draws upon...

... the Shi‘i religious landscape in accordance with its political goals. The regime was much more robust and exerted much more control than planners of the literature on Iraq suggested. The chapter also discusses the reasons for the misperceptions. The regime hid its control over the religious landscape...

... right’ to draw up a statutory land-use plan. The chapter explores the extent to which technical and ‘expert’ knowledge and the power of public and private planners is being challenged or displaced by the knowledge, emotions, and actions of citizen planners. As such, the chapter shows...

... revolutions of the yin/yang symbol), may provide an alternative method for thinking about the tension between the visions of planners and the unexpected disruptions from the street. Beijing China China ghost malls haipai jingpai Laozi modernity Shanghai Shanghai 2010 World Expo spectacle...

.... Another is civilianization, the peaceful reinterpretation of the features of the economy that the Soviets themselves revealed to be of military significance. This chapter focuses on the objectives of the planners, the most important actors in the Soviet economy. The objectives of planning, as described...

...0 24 06 1993 In 1945, German planners and architects agreed that the war’s devastation offered Germany a unique opportunity to correct the failings of the urban blight produced by the industrial and population expansion of the second half of the nineteenth century. For them, this was the bright...

... the present; and we need sources of support for co-ordination, both intrapersonal and interpersonal. Our capa cities as planners help us meet these needs.’ Another recent writer, Allan Gibbard (1990: 57) relates plans to the human capacity to be moved by words. ‘Humans plan together; they make agreements...

... defense planners addressed these questions by developing a conception of American society in a nuclear crisis. The assumption that Americans would be able to protect themselves in a nuclear attack presupposed an account of nuclear war that showed how survival by means of self-protection could be achieved...

... by Japan in the late nineteenth century, perfected by South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s, and brought to a high level of polish by the Chinese today. The key is having a very strong set of government economic planners who tell private companies how they should invest. These countries are not anticapitalist...

... spaces of compromise between members. anarchist communities Fellowship for Intentional Community rules intentional communities planners at Twin Oaks planning council Skinner Burrhus Frederic social regulation Twin Oaks Walden Two Skinner Komar Ingrid firearms ban of at Twin Oaks Kinkade Kat...