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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

PHYSICAL PLANNING THOUGHT: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

by Gary Pivo, Cliff Ellis, Michael Leaf, and Gerald Magutu

City planning scholars recently have been calling for greater attention by schools of city and regional planning to the intellectual field of physical planning. This articel responds by offering a retrospective of physical planning field and a future research agenda. Both are organized around five perennial questions which, it is argued, have always been at the core of the field. The questions address the forces shape physical development, the evolving urban form, possible and desirable physical futures, the impacts of development, and institutional means for guiding urban growth.

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