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Urban planning today : a Harvard design magazine reader / introduction by Alexander Garvin ; William S. Saunders, editor.

Contributor(s): Saunders, William SMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Harvard design magazine readers ; 3Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006Description: xx, 151 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0816647569 (hc : alk. paper); 9780816647569 (hc : alk. paper); 0816647577 (pb : alk. paper); 9780816647576 (pb : alk. paper)Subject(s): City planning | City planning -- Case studiesDDC classification: 307.1216 LOC classification: HT166 | .U7433 2006Online resources: Table of contents | Publisher description
Contents:
The return of urban renewal: Dan Doctoroff's grand plans for New York City / Susan S. Fainstein -- Deadlock plus 50: on public housing in New York / Richard Plunz and Michael Sheridan -- Democracy takes command: the new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski -- Can planning be a means to better architecture? Chicago's building boom and design quality / Lynn Becker -- An anatomy of civic ambition in Vancouver: toward humane density / Leonie Sandercock -- Paved with good intentions: Boston's central artery project and a failure of city building / Hubert Murray -- Public planning and private initiative: the South Boston waterfront / Matthew J. Kiefer -- Omaha by design-all of it: new prospects in urban planning and design / Jonathan Barnett -- Is eminent domain for economic development constitutional? / Jerold S. Kayden -- From new regionalism to the urban network: changing the paradigm of growth / Peter Calthorpe -- Design by deception: the politics of megaproject approval / Bent Flyvbjerg.
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"These essays were previously published in Harvard Design Magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Peter G. Rowe, Dean, 1992-2004; Alan Altshuler, Dean, 2005-"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

The return of urban renewal: Dan Doctoroff's grand plans for New York City / Susan S. Fainstein -- Deadlock plus 50: on public housing in New York / Richard Plunz and Michael Sheridan -- Democracy takes command: the new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski -- Can planning be a means to better architecture? Chicago's building boom and design quality / Lynn Becker -- An anatomy of civic ambition in Vancouver: toward humane density / Leonie Sandercock -- Paved with good intentions: Boston's central artery project and a failure of city building / Hubert Murray -- Public planning and private initiative: the South Boston waterfront / Matthew J. Kiefer -- Omaha by design-all of it: new prospects in urban planning and design / Jonathan Barnett -- Is eminent domain for economic development constitutional? / Jerold S. Kayden -- From new regionalism to the urban network: changing the paradigm of growth / Peter Calthorpe -- Design by deception: the politics of megaproject approval / Bent Flyvbjerg.

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