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The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities
Alexander Garvin
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Description for The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities
Hardback. Can planners-or anyone-improve a neighborhood, city, suburb, or region? Planning does work: this book explains how. Num Pages: 224 pages, 235 color illustrations. BIC Classification: RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 213 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1116.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393733440
SKU
V9780393733440
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About Alexander Garvin
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.
Reviews for The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities
"[H]ighly readable . . . Anyone who teaches – or is preparing to teach – introductory planning, economic development, or real estate development in the American context should be familiar with the Garvin perspective on planning and the greatest hits catalogued in this book. . . . Students of economic development, real estate development, and public works – Garvin’s future ... Read more