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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Summary: Urban Planning Today reports on projects in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, and Portland, bringing perspectives of urban design, city planning, criticism, and law to bear on the mixed bag of results observed in these cities.

Contents:

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Planning Now for the Twenty-first Century; 1. The Return of Urban Renewal: Dan Doctoroff's Grand Plans for New York City; 2. Deadlock Plus 50: On Public Housing in New York; 3. Democracy Takes Command: The New Community Planning and the Challenge to Urban Design; 4. Can Planning Be a Means to Better Architecture? Chicago's Building Boom and Design Quality; 5. An Anatomy of Civic Ambition in Vancouver: Toward Humane Density; 6. Paved with Good Intentions: Boston's Central Artery Project and a Failure of City Building

7. Public Planning and Private Initiative: The South Boston Waterfront8. Omaha by Design-All of It: New Prospects in Urban Planning and Design; 9. Is Eminent Domain for Economic Development Constitutional?; 10. From New Regionalism to the Urban Network: Changing the Paradigm of Growth; 11. Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval; Contributors

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-."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9820-1

OCLC:

476096091