"Planetizen, the popular online Planning and Develoment Network (Planetizen.com) has just released Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning (Island Press, 2007), which, in great and passionate detail, tackles the most controversial topics in urban planning. Contributors include well-known experts in the planning and design fields"
Conscious Choice
"This splendid collection lays out today's planning issues with startling clarity. It is a joy to read, a testimony to free speech and a test of your beliefs. Read it!"
Dr. Eugenie L. Birch, Professor and Chair, Department of City &d Regional Planning, School of Design, Univ. Pennsylvania
"This book…provides a rich array of competing, clashing, and on occasion surprisingly compatible prescriptions and predictions on how the country's growing, its real choices, the ideological and economic choices it faces."
Neal Peirce, from his foreword
"The essayists include a number of individuals who have played prominent roles in New Urbanism and Smart Growth or who have interesting perspectives on the potential of these closely aligned movements...I wish the editors had identified the readers whose responses appear in this slim volume. Some of them are very astute, and it would be useful to know who they are and where they come from. Despite its defects, Planetizen's book does provide insights into some of the great urban design andplanning issues of this decade."
New Urban News
"College-level collections strong in urban planning and land use issues need this collection, which outlines issues in urban planning and comes from Planetizen, the web's source of news and details for the planning community. Experts in the field offer debates and arguments on some of the most controversial issues facing modern urban designers, making for a particularly valuable guide for classroom study and debate."
California Bookwatch