The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities - Hardcover

Alexander Garvin

 
9780393733440: The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393733440 ISBN 13: 9780393733440
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

Synopsis

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-Eugène 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.

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About the Author

Alexander Garvin heads a planning and design firm and lives in New York. He is an adjunct professor of urban planning and management at Yale University.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393733440
ISBN 13 
9780393733440
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224