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Philip Mark Plotch - Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject - 9780813572499 - V9780813572499
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Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject

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Winner of the 2015 American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter Journalism Award
The State of New York built one of the world’s longest, widest, and most expensive bridges—the new Tappan Zee Bridge—stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. In Politics Across the Hudson, urban planner Philip Plotch offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centered around this bridge, recently renamed for Governor Mario M. Cuomo, the state's governor from 1983 to 1994. He reveals valuable lessons for those trying to tackle complex public policies ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813572499
SKU
V9780813572499
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Philip Mark Plotch
PHILIP MARK PLOTCH is an assistant professor of political science and director of the Master in Public Administration program at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City. He is the former director of World Trade Center Redevelopment and Special Projects for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and the former manager of planning for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 

Reviews for Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject
"Philip Plotch's political history about the replacement of New York's Tappan Zee Bridge should be on the bookshelf of planners and other practicioners, elected officials, community members, and students engaged in or entering megaproject and urban politics debates ... Plotch skillfully tells the painful story of this bridge's evolution through a three-decade saga of conflict between elected officials, engineers, planners, ... Read more

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