The planning game : lessons from great cities / Alexander Garvin.

Main entry:

Garvin, Alexander.

Title & Author:

The planning game : lessons from great cities / Alexander Garvin.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.

Description:

223 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The planning game : an introduction -- The players -- The rules of the game -- The public realm approach : making Paris Paris -- The planning process that transformed Chicago -- Growing metropolitan New York : it wasn't all Moses -- Reinventing downtown Philadelphia -- Playing the planning game in the twenty-first century.

Summary:

The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities provides a focused, thorough, and sophisticated overview of how planning works, generously illustrated with 200 colorful photographs, diagrams, and maps created expressly for the book. It presents the public realm approach to planning--an approach that emphasizes the importance of public investments in what we own: streets, squares, parks, infrastructure, and public buildings. They are the fundamental elements in any community and are the way to determine our future. The book covers planning at every level, explaining the activities that go into successfully transforming a community as exemplified by four cities and their colorful motive forces: Paris (Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann), New York (Robert Moses), Chicago (Daniel Burnham), and Philadelphia (Edmund Bacon). The Planning Game is an invaluable resource for planners, students, community leaders, and everybody involved with making better places to live.

ISBN:

9780393733440 (hardcover)
0393733440 (hardcover)

Subject:

City planning Case studies.
City planning.
Stadsplanering.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282719
Call No.: BIB 220423
Status: Available

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