y. It is against the conventional, modernist -- as reflected in Anaheim -- approach that post-modernist planning -- as reflected in Dubai -- will be contrasted. Through this, our understanding of the nature of urban planning will be improved.
Modernist planning of the kind that built Anaheim is being challenged by the political and economic manifestations of post-modernity. Problems became evident in the 1970's and 1980's as new political forms, economic relations, and restructured cities posed difficulties for the premises that underlie the tenants of modernist planning (Alexander, Neis & Anninou, 1983). To try to put the difficulties faced by modernist planning in context, Hosack argues that there is a crisis of urban modernization on two levels: the scale of physical and social problems in the modern city (inequality, segmen
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