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Breaking the Boundaries

A One-World Approach to Planning Education

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Bishwapriya Sanyal

    1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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Part of the book series: Urban Innovation Abroad (UIA)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Our Approach to Planning Education — and Ourselves

      • Bishwapriya Sanyal
      Pages 3-13

  3. Recasting the Language of Traditional Approaches to Planning Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Large Commitments to Large Objectives: Planning Education for the Twenty-first Century

      • Bishwapriya Sanyal
      Pages 17-55

    3. Language and Power: Teaching Writing to Third World Graduate Students

      • Louise Dunlap
      Pages 57-81

    4. The Language of Planners: A Central Issue in Internationalizing Planning Education

      • Salah El-Shakhs
      Pages 83-87

  4. Methodological Approaches for Refinement of Planning Education: The Benefits and Limitations of Comparison

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. Beyond Taoism: Comparative Environmental Planning

      • Gill-Chin Lim
      Pages 91-105

    3. Statistically Significant Differences? Students from Developing Areas and the Developing Area of Quantitative Reasoning

      • J. Mark Davidson Schuster
      Pages 107-124

    4. Educating First and Third World Development Planners: The Role of Qualitative Evaluations

      • Hemalata C. Dandekar
      Pages 125-141

    5. A Comparative Approach to Housing Problems

      • Omer S. Ertur
      Pages 143-151

  5. Developing Countries and Western Planning Approaches: Lack of Specificity as a Hindrance to Understanding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Comparison and Choice in Urban Transportation

      • Ralph Gakenheimer
      Pages 155-171

    3. Third World City Design: Values, Models and Education

      • Tridib Banerjee
      Pages 173-189

  7. Afterword: Reflections on the Major Implications of Breaking the Boundaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249
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About this book

Exploring the complex arena of international planning for development has until now been uniquely the privilege of influential senior western planners. This book calls into question many of their hallowed principles and much of the conventional wisdom still evident in the halls of academe. At a time of increasing enrollment of foreign students in North American planning programs, the emergence of a new voice has coincided with a growing skepticism, worldwide, about old notions of planning and development in poorer and ex-colonial countries. Now there is a need for brave innovations to reshape our understanding of the global crisis and the potential for progressive and democratic local solutions in both rich and poor nations alike. This new voice is given expression by academics and professionals from Third World nations who received their planning education in the west and who now hold posts in major western planning schools. Breaking the Boundaries presents their views, and those of concerned colleagues, about the need for a radically changed curriculum based on a comparative, one-world approach to planning education. Their personal experiences as young expatriate scholars, and later as teachers of both Third World and First World students in western planning schools are seen as crucial to this need for change. Through candid reflections and perceptive critiques of their own field- the spatial, environmental, social, design and communications disciplines - the contributors explore crucial issues in development planning from theoretical and professional practice perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Bishwapriya Sanyal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Breaking the Boundaries

  • Book Subtitle: A One-World Approach to Planning Education

  • Editors: Bishwapriya Sanyal

  • Series Title: Urban Innovation Abroad

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5781-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-5783-4Published: 25 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-5781-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 278

  • Topics: Ecology, Environmental Management, Education, general, Regional/Spatial Science

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