The Routledge Handbook of Planning History

2018 IPHS Special Book Prize Award Recipient The Routledge 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. Combining theoretical, methodological, historical, comparative, and global approaches to planning history, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores the state of the discipline, its achievements and shortcomings, and its future challenges. A foundation for the discipline and a springboard for scholarly research, The Routledge Handbook of Planning History explores planning history on an international scale in thirty-eight chapters, providing readers with unique opportunities for comparison. The diverse contributions open up new perspectives on the many ways in which contemporary events, changing research needs, and cutting-edge methodologies shape the writing of planning history. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

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 Uzo, 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.

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsChapter 1: The What, Why, and How of Planning History, Carola HeinPart I: Writing Planning History: Agents, Theories, Methods, and Typologies Chapter 2: The Pioneers, Institutions, and Vehicles of Planning History, Stephen V. WardChapter 3: Interdisciplinarity in Planning History, Nancy H. KwakChapter 4: Planning History and Theory: Institutions, Comparison, and Temporal Processes, André SorensenChapter 5: The History of Planning Methodology, Peter Batey Chapter 6: Biographical Method, Robert FreestoneChapter 7: Planning Diffusion: Agents, Mechanisms, Networks, and Theories, Stephen V. WardChapter 8: Global Systems Foundations of the Discipline: Colonial, Postcolonial, and Other Power Structures, Robert HomePart II: Time, Place, and Culture: From Euro-American to Global Planning HistoryChapter 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 FreestoneChapter 11: Key Planning Histories of the Developing Western Tradition from the Mid-19th Century to the Early-20th Century, David MasseyChapter 12: Urbanisme, Urbanismo, Urbanistica: Latin European Urbanism, Javier Monclús and Carmen Díez MedinaChapter 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