Planning, Urban, &
Architectural Theory

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Bibliography

Planning Theory

Positivism and Post-Positivism

 

Urban Theory: New Urbanism

Resource Directory from Cyburbia, includes a broad range of materials covering current urban design movements, as well as the theories behind new urbanism.

An interview with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, two of the founders of New Urbanism and the authors of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl, published in Atlantic Unbound (April 26, 2000). Duany and Plater-Zyberk argue that community planning is the best, and perhaps only, antidote to sprawl.

Architectural Theory


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