Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006.

Description:

xx, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Série(s):

Harvard design magazine readers ; 3

Notes:
"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-"--Title page 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.

Résumé:

Provides a practical consideration of what works, and what does not, in American urban planning. By creating a dialogue of cities' planning successes and failures, this book illustrates that adopting a single model universally will not work.

Ressources:
ebrary
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0816647569 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816647569 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816647577 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780816647576 (pb ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

City planning.
City planning Case studies.
City planning United States Case studies.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
Urbanisme États-Unis Études de cas.
urban planning.
United States

Classification/genre:

Case Reports
Case studies.
Études de cas.

Vedettes secondaires:

Saunders, William S.
Harvard design magazine readers ; 3.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 246484
Cote: BIB 176077
Statut: Disponible