New life for American Downtowns? The 1958 international seminar on urban renewal and the travel of planning ideas in the North Atlantic World

Planning Perspectives

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 189-208

  Wagner, Phillip ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

comprehensive planning; International Federation for Housing and Planning; mixed use zoning; pedestrianization; reconstruction; regional planning; transatlantic relations; travel of planning ideas; urban renewal

Indexed keywords

PEDESTRIANIZATION; PLANNING HISTORY; POST-WAR; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL PLANNING; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN RENEWAL; ZONING POLICY;

UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84899907084     PISSN: 02665433     EISSN: 14664518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2013.869183     Document Type: Article

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