Search Results - "Journal of Planning History"

How the City Survey’s Redlining Maps Were Made: A Closer Look at HOLC’s Mortgagee Rehabilitation Division by Michney, Todd M.

“…The infamous “security maps” made in the 1930s by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC), rating supposed mortgage lending risk in urban neighborhoods across…”
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Reconsidering Regionalism by Whittemore, Andrew H., Ryan, Brent D.

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What Happened to Rural Community and Regional Development? The Evolution of a Planning Idea by Hibbard, Michael, Frank, Kathryn I.

“…At the beginning of the profession in the early 1900s, planning considered uniquely rural places and communities through the lens of regionalism. Yet today it…”
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Catherine Bauer’s Passage Through India: Frontier Urbanization and the Construction of ‘Interdisciplinary’ Urban Research at the College of Environmental Design, Berkeley by Oommen, Thomas

“…This article examines the work of Catherine Bauer from 1953 to 1963, an overlooked period in her life, when she engaged with questions of ‘Indian urbanization’…”
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Exposing Freeway Inequalities in the Suburbs: The Cases of Pasadena and Pacoima by Ramirez, Andres F., Proussaloglou, Emmanuel, Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, Wasserman, Jacob L.

“…U.S. freeways have come under scrutiny for their adverse impacts on low-income neighborhoods of color, primarily in urban centers. This article offers a…”
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Lessons in Legacies: Treatment Plant Expansion Under the Clean Water Act by Solis, Miriam

“…The US Clean Water Act of 1972 required cities to build secondary wastewater treatment plant capacity to improve the environment and protect public health. The…”
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Placing the North American Post-war Pedestrian Mall Within the Legacy of Downtown Urban Renewal by Gregg, Kelly

“…This paper investigates how the pedestrian mall concept evolved and was broadly replicated in the post-war period in North America, specifically positioning…”
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Origins of Deed Restrictions in the United States: The Case of Early-Nineteenth Century Boston by Whittemore, Andrew H.

“…This paper examines the context, precedents, contents, distribution, and socio-economic ramifications of deed restrictions in early-nineteenth century Boston,…”
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‘A Period Favorable to Economic Imperialists’: Railroads and the Hidden History of Slum Clearance in Cleveland, 1910–1930 by McCarthy, John

“…Between 1910 and 1930, the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland, allied with many of Cleveland’s business leaders, undertook three railroad projects--including…”
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Historic Town-Gown Partnerships: Planning, Race, and Power by Larsen, Kristin, Redden, Tyeshia, Dedenbach, Laura, Frank, Kathryn

“…Though previous studies examine university expansion and impacts on adjacent, often economically disenfranchised and segregated communities of color, most…”
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The Post-war Revival of Canadian Planning: Assessing the Impact of the Community Planning Association of Canada by Gordon, David L. A., Virginillo, Miranda

“…The Community Planning Association of Canada (CPAC) advocated for the re-establishment of planning in post-war Canada. During this period, the federal…”
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Do-it-Yourself Urbanism: A History by Talen, Emily

“…In the last several years, interest has surged in the idea of small-scale, incremental, “do-it-yourself” (DIY) urban improvement. Also known as “tactical,”…”
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(Un)Settled Monument: Tehran’s Shahyad Square in the Revolutionary Crucible by Soltani, Zohreh

“…The Shahyad monument, which has served as a symbol of Tehran—and by extension of modern Iran—since its inauguration in 1971, stands at the center of a huge…”
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“Designs for People Who Do Not Readily Intermingle”: Olmsted Jr.’s Use of Race-Restrictive Covenants, ca. 1900–1930 by Schentag, Annie

“…This article illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.’s use of racially restrictive covenants in his firm’s residential subdivisions. Given his prominence in…”
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Skyscrapers and Their City: Reframing Chicago’s Postwar High-Rises by Watson, Joseph M.

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Rise and Fall: Downtown Eugene’s Pedestrian Mall Experience and Retail Core Transformation by Shrestha, Subik Kumar

“…Downtown Eugene’s retail core transformed drastically after the institution of the pedestrian mall in 1971. The “Eugene Mall,” which was demolished across four…”
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Remembering Friend, Mentor, and Scholar Sam Bass Warner Jr., 1928–2023 by Whittemore, Andrew, Vale, Lawrence

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The Limits of Counterculture Urbanism: Utopian Planning and Practical Politics in Berkeley, 1969–73 by Raynsford, Anthony

“…Around 1970, the City of Berkeley briefly became an epicenter of radical experimentation in urban planning and design, directly stemming from the…”
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Oran’s Front de Mer Projects 1891–1961: Premises of a Modern Urbanism by Allal, Feriel Baya, Chérif, Nabila

“…This article reviews the urban revitalization and modernization actions of Oran’s Front de Mer, from the late nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth…”
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Two Views on Abandonment and Blight in Detroit by Heins, Matthew

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