GEO 320 Urban Geography Fall 2005
Department of Geography and Meteorology, Valparaiso University
Urban Planning and the Political Geography of Cities

Why do we need urban planning?

A short history of planning

Origins

After WWII

Urban Renewal

 

Legal Basis for Planning

Eminent Domain

Public Control of Private Property

Police Power

 

Recent Trends in Planning

Regional Planning

Environmental Planning

Growth Management Planning

 

Community Power Structures and the Role of the Local State

Monolithic vs. Pluralistic urban power structures

Regime Theory

Political Economy of Contemporary Cities

Quangos and the Shadow State