The trouble with city planning : what New Orleans can teach us /
Ford, Kristina, 1946-
The trouble with city planning : what New Orleans can teach us / Kristina Ford. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010. - viii, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and index.
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.
9780300127355 (alk. paper) 0300127359 (alk. paper)
2010018736
GBB064758 bnb
015561979 Uk
City planning--United States--Case studies.
Land use--United States--Case studies.
HT167 / .F674 2010
307.1/2160973
The trouble with city planning : what New Orleans can teach us / Kristina Ford. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010. - viii, 273 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-259) and index.
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.
9780300127355 (alk. paper) 0300127359 (alk. paper)
2010018736
GBB064758 bnb
015561979 Uk
City planning--United States--Case studies.
Land use--United States--Case studies.
HT167 / .F674 2010
307.1/2160973