URBS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Economic Geography, House Law, American Planning Association
14 Feb 2017
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American planning association code of ethics and professional conduct: See social justice by trying to expand choice and opportunity for everybody. Be responsible to plan for the needs of the disadvantaged. Urge the alteration of policies, institutions, and decisions that oppose such needs. Three interwoven streams came to characterize early 20th century american planning. City practical (specialists developing planning tools and technical solutions dealing with urban problems such as transportations) City beautiful (embellishing the city and rationalizing its spatial layout) City social (a progressive movement led by women social reformers) Urban planning emerged as an intellectual, professional, and institutional answer to the serious conditions faced by the 19thcentury city. Three sets of factors to explain the evolution of the industrial city: Urban population that grew much lire rapidly than the total population. The growth of urbanization in the 19th century was a result of the industrial revolution coupled with rapid population growth. Development of transportation at a low cost.
