Trouble with City Planning What New Orleans Can Teach Us

Name: Trouble with City Planning What New Orleans Can Teach Us
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ISBN: 9780300177428

ISBN-10: 0300177429

ISBN-13: 9780300177428

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kristina Ford

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Kristina Ford argues that almost no part of the common perception of 'city planning' is accurate. Drawing on her close knowledge of New Orleans, she puts forward several innovations that might play a crucial role in restoring that devastated city, or any other place in which citizens are troubled by the proposals in the city plan.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction



The Practice of American City Planning



Cities as Planners See Them



Intimations of Trouble: Plans After Hurricane Katrina



What Are City Plans?



What City Planners Do and Why They Do It That Way



How Planners Interact with Citizens



The American Evolution of Plans



How Plans Take Effect



Locating the Trouble with City Planning



City Planning in Action



Plans that Only Planners Use



Plans that Don't Include What Citizens Know



Plans that Elected Leaders Ignore



Good City Plans



City Plans for Citizens



The Trouble with Most City Plans



Formulating Good City Plans: The State of the City



Formulating Good City Plans: Projections for the Future



Formulating Good City Plans: Citizen's Guide to Land-Use Decisions



Activating Good City Plans



How Good City Plans Influence Elected Leaders



Good City Plans and Great Cities


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index