This is a review of major topics and issues discussed in the field of urban planning, assembled by editors at Planetizen, the leading source of news and information for the planning and development community on the web. Topics covered include gentrification, eminent domain, regional growth patterns, urban design trends and much more.

Includes index.

Section 1: Sprawl v. Smart Growth -- A tipping point-but now the hard part / Anthony Flint -- The argument against smart growth / Wendell Cox -- Prescription for urban sprawl: adapting smart growth strategies to a big city / Michael Woo -- Can't smart growth and sprawl just get along? / Rick Bishop -- How we pay for growth / William Fulton -- What is the new suburbanism? / Joel Kotkin -- Zoning in a time warp: the coming 'oversupply' of single family homes / Harriet Tregoning -- Preserving the American dream by cost not coercion / Randal O'Toole -- Section 2: Transportation -- Ten keys To walkable communities / Daniel Burden -- The price of parking on great streets / Donald C. Shoup -- The pricing revolution on the roads / Peter Samuel -- How temporal use of streets can be a catalyst for change / Kenneth Kruckemeyer -- Making TODs work: lessons from Portland's Orenco Station / Michael Mehaffy -- Section Three: Urban Design -- Planning for the public realm / Alex Garvin -- Making better places: ten city design resolutions / Jeff Speck -- Principles essential to the renewal of architecture / Andrés Duany -- Why new urbanism fails / Christopher DeWolfe -- Urban parks: innovate or stagnate / Fred Kent -- Section Four: Disaster Planning -- Recovering New Orleans / Thomas J. Campanella -- The end of tall buildings / James Howard Kunstler and Nikos A. Salingaros -- Fortifying America: planning for fear / Edward J. Blakely -- Planning for post-disaster recovery / Robert B. Olshansky -- Section Five: Society and Planning -- Is gentrification really a threat? / John Norquist -- Gentrification reality tour: neither benign nor benevolent / Charles Shaw -- Is Kelo good for urban planning? / Samuel R. Staley -- Bring schools back into walkable neighborhoods / Constance E. Beaumont -- The Lone Mountain Compact: a debate on Libertarian planning principles / C. Kenneth Orski, G.B. Arrington, Patrick Condon, and John H. Hooker.