Urban planning today : a Harvard design magazine reader / introduction by Alexander Garvin ; William S. Saunders, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, William S.

Series:

Harvard design magazine readers ; 3.

Harvard design magazine readers ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

City planning--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]

Summary:

American cities' penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long been recognized: grueling commutes and dependency on automobiles, social isolation, expensive public infrastructure, needless destruction of countryside.

Addressing these urgent problems and debating the public's role in urban planning, the contributors to Urban Planning Today report on real projects bringing varying, and sometimes divergent, perspectives from backgrounds in urban design and development, city and regional planning, criticism, and law. Noting the increasing influence of local nonprofit developers, the contributors also imagine clear and effective roles for government leaders. By creating a dialogue of cities' planning successes and failures, this book illustrates that adopting a single model universally will not work and that effective planning must indisputably demonstrate that any public action and private market reaction will be in the local community's interest.

Contents:

The return of urban renewal: Dan Doctoroff's grand plans for New York City / Susan S. Fainstein

Deadlock plus 50: on public housing in New York / Richard Plunz and Michael Sheridan

Democracy takes command: the new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski

Can planning be a means to better architecture? Chicago's building boom and design quality / Lynn Becker

An anatomy of civic ambition in Vancouver: toward humane density / Leonie Sandercock

Paved with good intentions: Boston's central artery project and a failure of city building / Hubert Murray

Public planning and private initiative: the South Boston waterfront / Matthew J. Kiefer

Omaha by design-all of it: new prospects in urban planning and design / Jonathan Barnett

Is eminent domain for economic development constitutional? / Jerold S. Kayden

From new regionalism to the urban network: changing the paradigm of growth / Peter Calthorpe

Design by deception: the politics of megaproject approval / Bent Flyvbjerg.

Notes:

"These essays were previously published in Harvard Design Magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Peter G. Rowe, Dean, 1992-2004; Alan Altshuler, Dean, 2005-"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0816647569

9780816647569

0816647577

9780816647576

OCLC:

65064303