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City Planning in America: Between Promise and Despair

Autor Mary Hommann
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iun 1993 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This sure-to-be-controversial work examines the failure of city planning in America, the results of that failure as seen in the day-to-day lives of our cities, and the reasons behind that failure. Hommann contends that, although desperately needed, by and large city planning has no effect on urban development in this country where developers are supreme. For the most part, local planners must deal with a daily fiction regarding their involvement in developmental decisions, a fiction that ultimately drives many into alternate pursuits. After tracing the history of American development and planning, the author argues that greed settled this country and continues to control economic and developmental decisions, accompanied in this century by criminal conspiracy. The result is the civic deprivation that debilitates millions of Americans culturally, socially, and economically.This study will be of interest to scholars, students, and professionals in planning, urban studies, architecture, public administration, sociology, political science, housing, civil engineering, traffic engineering, transportation planning, city management, and environment; legislators, local politicians, civic leaders, lawyers dealing in public policy and land development, as well as enlightened citizens from the business world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275944735
ISBN-10: 0275944735
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

MARY HOMMANN's forty-year career has included positions as Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Pratt Institute, Development Planning Director for the City of Yonkers, Planning Director for the City of Long Beach, New York, and Director of the acclaimed Wooster Square urban renewal project in New Haven, Connecticut. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association, and she is licensed to practice as a professional planner in New Jersey.

Cuprins

Opening ThesisHistoric Survey of American Development: What the City Planner Has to Deal WithSurvey of American City Planning: City Planning's Ability to Meet the ChallengeLocal PlanningMyths about City PlanningObstructionistsUrban RedevelopmentHousingTraffic and TransportationEuropean Planning ControlConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex