Values and Planning
The Argument from Renaissance Utopianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12596244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Paden (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-30 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics Place & Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-879X • E-ISSN: 1469-6703 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13668790125177 |
| OpenAlex | W1987277491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper seeks to discover if urban planning has any 'internal values' which might help guide its practitioners and provide standards with which to judge their works, thereby providing for some disciplinary autonomy. After arguing that such values can best be discovered through an examination of the history of utopian urban planning, I examine one period in that history, the early Renaissance and, in particular, the work of Leon Battista Alberti. Against Susan Lang's thesis that Alberti's work was guided by the fundamental value of beauty, I argue that Alberti was centrally concerned to design cities that would help their citizens develop civic virtue. Against Françoise Choay's thesis that Alberti was not a utopian, I argue that Alberti was a procedural utopian interested in advancing certain political goals. This analysis suggests that urban planning has an internal value structure which includes some specific political values
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Art history · Autonomy · Beauty · Discipline · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The Renaissance · Value (mathematics · Virtue · Work (physics · Architecture and Art History Studies · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
The Structure of scientific theories
Toward a rational society
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Habermas and the public sphere
The theory of communicative action
The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference
Utopian Thought in the Western World
The Human Condition
The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance
Leon Battista Alberti
History of urban form before the industrial revolutions
The two professions of Hippodamus of Miletus
Planning through debate
Painting and the Liberal Arts
Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2002 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |