The trouble with city planning: what New Orleans can teach us
New Haven
Yale University Press
c2010
viii, 273 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references )p. 255-259( and index
Kristina Ford
Cities as planners see them -- Intimations of trouble: plans after Hurricane Katrina -- What are city plans? -- What city planners do and why they do it that way -- How planners interact with citizens -- The American evolution of plans -- How plans take effect -- City planning in action -- Plans that only planners use -- Plans that don't include what citizens know -- Plans that elected leaders ignore -- City plans for citizens -- The trouble with most city plans -- Formulating good city plans : the state of the city -- Formulating good city plans : projections for the future -- Formulating good city plans : citizen's guide to land-use decisions -- Activating good city plans -- How good city plans influence elected leaders -- Good city plans and great cities