Seymour J Mandelbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 703167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seymour J Mandelbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seymour J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandelbaum |
| SIGNATURE | MANDELBAUM S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Explorations in Planning Theory
Planning Intelligence
In Defense of Armchair Theorizing
A Symposium on the Work of John Friend: Introduction
On Compromise
Ironists under the Skin: A Comment
Anchor Points: A Critical Commentary
Reading Old Plans
My initial decision to explicate how I read formal planning texts was provoked by the 1988 publication of a scheme for the CBD of Philadelphia and the adjacent residential neighborhoods. I thought initially that I might be able to help people directly read The Plan for Center City . Ultimately, however, I settled on a more modest goal: encouraging a conversation among planners about both reading and writing plans. My contribution to that conversa…
Telling Stories
Planning arguments are characteristi cally expressed as stories. As they both tell and manage these stories, planners maintain and redesign com munities. The essay describes five management (and hence design) modes for dealing with narrative conflicts. It focuses particularly on the fifth (postmodernist) strategy that sustains the differences inherent in a field of open moral communi ties
Claiming Rights Warily
Planners concerned with cultivating the moral capacity of local commu nities should be wary of claiming rights that stem from deontological principles or from the norms of superordinate associations
Manhattan Water-Bound: Planning and Developing Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Journal Article Manhattan Water-Bound: Planning and Developing Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. By Ann L. Buttenwieser. (New York: New York University Press, 1987. xxiii + 243 pp. $35.00.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 88…
Open moral communities
Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. To do so, they m…
Cities and communication
Telling Right from Wrong: What Is Moral, What Is Immoral, and What Is Neither One nor the Other
This is an innovative analysis and discussion of moral language and the assumptions underlying its use. In distinguishing truly moral statements from those of mere opinion, Mr Cooney contends that much of our prescriptive language pertaining to such controversial issues as gambling, abortion, capitol punishment, homosexuality, prostitution, divorce, freedom of speech and expression, pornography, and others, is devoid of moral content
Ethics in Planning
The Institutional Focus of Planning Theory
There is a good deal of talk these days about the ways in which planning theoreticians have neglected practice and practitioners. Some of the talk comes from practitioners, some from theoreticians themselves. This essay reflects on this talk, discerning a coherent theme in the varied chorus of complaints The conventional image that planning theory deals with the interaction between planners and clients no longer seems compelling. In the place of …
Thinking about Cities as Systems: Reflections on the History of an Idea
H. J. Dyos and British Urban History
What is Philadelphia
Explorations d'une histoire imaginaire. Villes et communication
Explorations in an imaginary history. Cities and communication. Not until recently have city decision makers been asked to imagine an urban communication infrastructure as an object of design and policy. This paper explores the implication of the historical absence of this idea in the United States and assesses the uses, limitations, and difficulties of embedding of communication components within the broader concept of an urban infrastructure
Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century
Journal Article Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century. By David C. Hammack. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1982. xix + 422 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $29.95.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, P…
The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857
Journal Article The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840–1857. By Edward K. Spann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. xv + 546 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, June 1982, Pages 163–164, h…
Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840-1860
Urban Pasts and Urban Policies
A complete general theory of planning is impossible
Telling Stories
Planning arguments are characteristi cally expressed as stories. As they both tell and manage these stories, planners maintain and redesign com munities. The essay describes five management (and hence design) modes for dealing with narrative conflicts. It focuses particularly on the fifth (postmodernist) strategy that sustains the differences inherent in a field of open moral communi ties
A complete general theory of planning is impossible
The Institutional Focus of Planning Theory
There is a good deal of talk these days about the ways in which planning theoreticians have neglected practice and practitioners. Some of the talk comes from practitioners, some from theoreticians themselves. This essay reflects on this talk, discerning a coherent theme in the varied chorus of complaints The conventional image that planning theory deals with the interaction between planners and clients no longer seems compelling. In the place of …
The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857
Journal Article The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840–1857. By Edward K. Spann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. xv + 546 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, June 1982, Pages 163–164, h…
The Politics of Depression: Political Behavior in the Northeast, 1893-1896, by Samuel T. McSeveney
H. J. Dyos and British Urban History
Time on the Cross: Two Views
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Community and Communications
Journal Article Community and Communications. By Seymour J. Mandelbaum. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1972. 153 pp. Notes. $5.95.) Get access Joel A. Tarr Joel A. Tarr Carnegie-Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 1, June 1973, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936388 Published: 01 June 1973
On Compromise
Ironists under the Skin: A Comment
Anchor Points: A Critical Commentary
Claiming Rights Warily
Planners concerned with cultivating the moral capacity of local commu nities should be wary of claiming rights that stem from deontological principles or from the norms of superordinate associations
Open moral communities
Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. To do so, they m…
Thinking about Cities as Systems: Reflections on the History of an Idea
The Intelligence of Universities
This is an essay about the ways in which universities may enhance their ability to deal intelligently with themselves and with the external conditions they are likely to face in the next several decades. Readers with a personal knowledge of university life will be able to judge whether a detailed analysis of the differences between institutions and disciplines would force a fundamental alteration of my broadly stroked characterization of the Acad…
Boss Tweed's New York
Journal Article Boss Tweed's New York. By Seymour J. Mandelbaum. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1965. ix + 196 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. Cloth, $5.95; paper, $2.65.) Get access A. Theodore Brown A. Theodore Brown University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 2, September 1966, Pages 375–377, https://doi.org/10…
The Pendergast Machine
Journal Article The Pendergast Machine. By Lyie W. Dorsett. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. xiv + 163 pp. Maps, notes, and index. $6.00.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 55, Issue 2, September 1968, Pages 423–424, https://doi.org/10.2307/1899615 Published: 01 September 1968
The Politics of Depression: Political Behavior in the Northeast, 1893-1896, by Samuel T. McSeveney
Community and Communications
Journal Article Community and Communications. By Seymour J. Mandelbaum. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1972. 153 pp. Notes. $5.95.) Get access Joel A. Tarr Joel A. Tarr Carnegie-Mellon University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 1, June 1973, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936388 Published: 01 June 1973
Time on the Cross: Two Views
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A complete general theory of planning is impossible
Urban Legacy: The Story of America's Cities
The Intelligence of Universities
This is an essay about the ways in which universities may enhance their ability to deal intelligently with themselves and with the external conditions they are likely to face in the next several decades. Readers with a personal knowledge of university life will be able to judge whether a detailed analysis of the differences between institutions and disciplines would force a fundamental alteration of my broadly stroked characterization of the Acad…
Urban Pasts and Urban Policies
The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840-1857
Journal Article The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840–1857. By Edward K. Spann. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. xv + 546 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, June 1982, Pages 163–164, h…
Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840-1860
Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century
Journal Article Power and Society: Greater New York at the Turn of the Century. By David C. Hammack. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1982. xix + 422 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $29.95.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, P…
What is Philadelphia
Explorations d'une histoire imaginaire. Villes et communication
Explorations in an imaginary history. Cities and communication. Not until recently have city decision makers been asked to imagine an urban communication infrastructure as an object of design and policy. This paper explores the implication of the historical absence of this idea in the United States and assesses the uses, limitations, and difficulties of embedding of communication components within the broader concept of an urban infrastructure
The Institutional Focus of Planning Theory
There is a good deal of talk these days about the ways in which planning theoreticians have neglected practice and practitioners. Some of the talk comes from practitioners, some from theoreticians themselves. This essay reflects on this talk, discerning a coherent theme in the varied chorus of complaints The conventional image that planning theory deals with the interaction between planners and clients no longer seems compelling. In the place of …
Thinking about Cities as Systems: Reflections on the History of an Idea
H. J. Dyos and British Urban History
Cities and communication
Telling Right from Wrong: What Is Moral, What Is Immoral, and What Is Neither One nor the Other
This is an innovative analysis and discussion of moral language and the assumptions underlying its use. In distinguishing truly moral statements from those of mere opinion, Mr Cooney contends that much of our prescriptive language pertaining to such controversial issues as gambling, abortion, capitol punishment, homosexuality, prostitution, divorce, freedom of speech and expression, pornography, and others, is devoid of moral content
Ethics in Planning
Manhattan Water-Bound: Planning and Developing Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Journal Article Manhattan Water-Bound: Planning and Developing Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. By Ann L. Buttenwieser. (New York: New York University Press, 1987. xxiii + 243 pp. $35.00.) Get access Seymour J. Mandelbaum Seymour J. Mandelbaum University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 88…
Open moral communities
Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. Seymour Mandelbaum's extended reflection on communities and the myths that sustain them is a plea for a communitarian sensibility. Communities are critically important in maintaining and adapting public moral orders. To do so, they m…
Claiming Rights Warily
Planners concerned with cultivating the moral capacity of local commu nities should be wary of claiming rights that stem from deontological principles or from the norms of superordinate associations
Telling Stories
Planning arguments are characteristi cally expressed as stories. As they both tell and manage these stories, planners maintain and redesign com munities. The essay describes five management (and hence design) modes for dealing with narrative conflicts. It focuses particularly on the fifth (postmodernist) strategy that sustains the differences inherent in a field of open moral communi ties
Reading Old Plans
My initial decision to explicate how I read formal planning texts was provoked by the 1988 publication of a scheme for the CBD of Philadelphia and the adjacent residential neighborhoods. I thought initially that I might be able to help people directly read The Plan for Center City . Ultimately, however, I settled on a more modest goal: encouraging a conversation among planners about both reading and writing plans. My contribution to that conversa…
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