ABSTRACT
In City Planning for the Public Manager, the authors will explore various themes pertaining to the planning and management of cities. Cities arose at a moment in history, in various places on Earth, when humanity learned to control their food supply through agriculture rather than rely upon hunting and gathering. Cities have four basic characteristics: continuity, complexity, concentration of people and capacity for self-renewal. The cities of the United States are the direct descendants of European cities whose basic traits have a lineage that stretches back into antiquity, particularly to the city-states of a Islamic cities retained some ancient qualities with homes, palaces, and public areas forming inward-looking precincts. ncient Greece. Restructuring cities around homes meant reorganizing the city around the needs of the inhabitants instead of officials or landlords. Existing cities could not be saved in their present form, no matter what the expedients.
