The Routledge Handbook of Planning History

The Handbook of Planning History offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of planning history since its emergence in the late 19th century, investigating the history of the discipline, its core writings, key people, institutions, vehicles, education, and practice.

Carola Hein is Professor and Head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning Chair at TU Delft, the Netherlands. She is the author and editor of several books, including the editor of Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks, contributor to Reflections on Urban, Regional and National Space by Nishiyama Uz-, and co-editor of Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan. She serves on the boards of the International Planning History Society, the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, and the Urban History Association. She is a member of the editorial boards of Planning Perspectives and the Journal of Urban History.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chapter 1: The What, Why, and How of Planning History, Carola Hein Part I: Writing Planning History: Agents, Theories, Methods, and Typologies Chapter 2: The Pioneers, Institutions, and Vehicles of Planning History, Stephen V. Ward Chapter 3: Interdisciplinarity in Planning History, Nancy H. Kwak Chapter 4: Planning History and Theory: Institutions, Comparison, and Temporal Processes, André Sorensen Chapter 5: The History of Planning Methodology, Peter Batey Chapter 6: Biographical Method, Robert Freestone Chapter 7: Planning Diffusion: Agents, Mechanisms, Networks, and Theories, Stephen V. Ward Chapter 8: Global Systems Foundations of the Discipline: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Other Power Structures, Robert Home Part II: Time, Place, and Culture: From Euro-American to Global Planning History Chapter 9: The Ancient Past in the Urban Present: The Use of Early Models in Urban Design, Michael E. Smith and Carola Hein Chapter 10: Writing Planning History in the English-Speaking World, Robert Freestone Chapter 11: Key Planning Histories of the Developing Western Tradition from the Mid-19th Century to the Early-20th Century, David Massey Chapter 12: Urbanisme, Urbanismo, Urbanistica: Latin European Urbanism, Javier Monclús and Carmen Díez Medina Chapter 13: Urbanisme and the Francophone Sphere, Clément Orillard Chapter 14: The German Traditions of Städtebau and Stadtlandschaft and Their Diffusion Through Global Exchange, Celina Kress