The Journal of the American Planning Association’s (JAPA) current issue celebrates 100 years of city planning. In addition to feature articles and reflections on the field, a book review section features 17 leading practitioners and academicians who each selected and then reviewed what they believe to be the most important book in the field.
Philip Burke, professor of City and Regional Planning and director of the Center for Sustainable Community Design at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, selected Rural Environmental Planning as the most influential book in rural and small town planning.
He lauds the original 1976 edition and its author, Frederic Sargent, then proceeds to say that the 1991 edition, co-authored with Paul Lusk, Jose Rivera and Maria Varela ... “was one of the first publications in the planning field to integrate land use and environmental planning with the broader concepts of sustainable communities... offering practitioners a step-by-step approach to the translation of ecology into a vision of sustainable communities.”
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