... and complementary roles played by planners and politicians by focusing on the distinctive ways they think; the ideas and values that guide the principal interests that influence land use policy; and innovation, inertia, and transition in land use policy and the interests or values those policies reflected...

... postcommunist planners who engaged in fac¸ade reconstruction and monument fetishism or financed urban reconstruction in ways that expelled inhabitants to serve the interests of privileged investors. It recounts how contemporary Leipzig has become a multifaceted urban center that is vibrant with history...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...This chapter presents how politicians and planners reacted to the realization that US development was not working as planned, and not only in Nicaragua. The chapter discusses the action and pressure of the US Congress coming from a growing network of nongovernmental organizations and activists...

...This chapter focuses on the conflict for planners balancing sustainability with economic benefits generated by fracking. It is based on a survey of municipal planners across three hundred jurisdictions in Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Louisiana, and Colorado to understand how local residents...

...This book concludes with a discussion of Montgomery County's contribution to understanding planning politics. Montgomery's experience highlights the complementary roles and reasoning processes of planners and politicians as they sought to act in the public interest. One of the most valuable lessons...

...This chapter examines the foods pushed by military planners, which were long lasting, nutritionally balanced, and easy to transport. This was a period when control and power, which is now so central to relief work, became crucial to humanitarian action in the Second World War. Compared...