Main entry:

Ford, Kristina, 1946-

Title & Author:

The trouble with city planning : what New Orleans can teach us / Kristina Ford.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.

Description:

viii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references 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.

Summary:

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 eye-opening discussion of the intransigent problems and promising possibilities facing city planners across the nation and beyond. In The Trouble with City Planning, Ford argues that almost no part of our usual understanding of the phrase "city planning" is accurate: not our conception of the plan itself, nor our sense of what city planners do or who plans are made for or how planners determine what citizens want. Most important, our conventional understanding does not tell us how a plan affects what gets built in any city in America. Ford advances several planning innovations that, if adopted, could be crucial for restoring New Orleans, but also transformative wherever citizens are troubled by the results of their cityʹs plan. This keenly intelligent book is destined to become a classic for planners and citizens alike. -- Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780300127355 (alk. paper)
0300127359 (alk. paper)
9780300177428 (pbk.)
0300177429 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning United States Case studies.
Land use United States Case studies.
Utilisation du sol États-Unis Études de cas.
City planning.
Land use.
Städtebau.
Landnutzung.
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269003
Call No.: BIB 200976
Status: Available