Contemporary Urban Planning 10th Edition by John M. Levy

Contemporary Urban Planning 10th Edition by John M. LevyISBN-13: 9780205851737ISBN-10: 0205851738The term Planning is a very general one. There are city and town plannersand also corporate planners. The Pentagon employs numerousmilitary planners. The launching of a space shuttle is the culminationof a tremendously complex and sophisticated planning process. Andso on.Planning in its generic meaning, then, is an ubiquitous activity. Alltypes of planning have a conscious effort in common to systematicallyimprove the quality of decision making. The planning discussed in thisbook is a very small part of the total planning activity in the United States.Specifically, this book focuses on public planning at the substate level, thatdone by and for cities, counties, towns, and other units of local governments.We will also examine, much more briefly, planning for metropolitanregions, the states, and the question of national planning. One chapter containsa brief survey of planning in other nations.