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Tehranian, Katherine. "The City as Discourse: The Origins of American City Planning," University of Hawaii, Manoa, May 1990.
This study examines the origins of American urban planning in terms of a series of public discourses among the main contenders in the processes of urban development at the turn of the century. The study combines Gramsci’s theory of hegemonic domination with the theories of urban planning under capitalism, as developed by David Harvey and Manuel Castells, to argue that planning is a form of dominant political economy in practice. In five chapters, the study focuses on the movements and discourses of urban reform, urban parks, urban aesthetics, urban congestion, and urban efficiency. Through the discourses of contending urban planning groups, the city as a spatial reality is juxtaposed with the city as a representational form.
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