The trouble with city planning : what New Orleans can teach us /
After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. As the cityʹs director of planning from 1992 until 2000, Kristina Ford is uniquely placed to use these opportunities as a springboard for an...
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2010]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- - City planning in action
- - Plans that only planners use
- - Plans that don't include what citizens know
- - Plans that elected leaders ignore
- - 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.
