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- Editors:
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Leland S. Burns
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Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
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John Friedmann
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Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Revitalizing Central Cities
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 5-12
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 13-28
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 29-46
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 47-62
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Urban and Metropolitan Planning and Policy
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 67-90
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 91-104
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 105-120
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 121-136
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Regional Planning and Analysis
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Front Matter
Pages 137-140
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 141-149
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 150-158
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 159-165
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 166-185
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 186-204
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 205-219
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Fiscal Policy and Planning
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Front Matter
Pages 221-222
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- Leland S. Burns, John Friedmann
Pages 223-240
About this book
The work of Harvey S. Perloff stands as a landmark in the evolution of Anglo American planning doctrine. It is impossible to fully capture the essence of the published work in a paragraph, page, or even an entire essay. Yet its highpoints can be identified. His work was innovative, reformist, comprehensive, and ori ented toward the future. In emphasizing the greater importance of people com pared to things, Perloff repeatedly prodded planners to be concerned with human needs and values. He was critical of the past. But inasmuch as he de voted more effort to envisioning what could lie ahead than in recalling the past, his work was markedly optimistic. He once admitted in writing to his "built-in weakness for expecting rational, socially oriented solutions ultimately to win out, no matter what the objective situation seems to be. " To some the expecta tion may be seen as naive; to others, as a faith in the wisdom of humankind to take the best course. However received, Perloff's optimism served as a powerful stimulant to keep moving ahead for the best that would come of it. Institutions and the ways they should be shaped and reshaped were of central concern, for institutions (though he rarely used the term) were the in struments through which "knowledge was translated into action.