American City What Works, What Doesn't

Name: American City What Works, What Doesn't
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ISBN: 9780071373678

ISBN-10: 0071373675

ISBN-13: 9780071373678

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Alexander Garvin

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In this comprehensive study, the author makes a careful study of what has worked and what hasn't in the ongoing attempt to solve the continuing problems of America's cities. He includes hundreds of individual case studies and examples.

Book details

List price: $62.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date: 6/19/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 4.180
Language: English

Alexander Garvin heads a planning and design firm and lives in New York. He is an adjunct professor of urban planning and management at Yale University.



Preface to the First Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


Acknowledgements



A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning



Ingredients of Success



Parks and Playgrounds



Palaces for the People



Retail Shopping



Urban Redevelopment



Planning for Pedestrians



Increasing the Housing Supply



Reducing Housing Cost



Housing Rehabilitation



Clearing the Slums



Revitalizing Neighbourhoods



Residential Suburbs



New-Towns-in-Towns



New-Towns-in-the-Country



Land Use Regulation



Preserving the Past



Comprehensive Planning


Index