TY - BOOK AU - Ford,Kristina TI - The trouble with city planning: what New Orleans can teach us SN - 9780300127355 (alk. paper) AV - HT167 .F674 2010 U1 - 307.1/2160973 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - City planning KW - United States KW - Case studies KW - Land use N1 - 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 ER -