Making Equity Planning Work : Leadership in the Public Sector (Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development) - Softcover

Krumholz, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877227012 ISBN 13: 9780877227014

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1990

Synopsis

From 1969 to 1979, Cleveland's city planning staff under Norman Krumholz's leadership conducted a unique experiment in equity oriented planning. This book provides a detailed personal account of a sustained and effective equity-planning practice that influenced urban policy.

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About the Author

Norman Krumholz, Professor of Urban Planning at Cleveland State University, is former Director of the City of Cleveland Planning Commission and former President of the American Planning Association. He is the recipient of the 1990 National Planning Award for Distinguished Leadership by the American Planning Association.

From the Inside Flap

"No planner, I predict, will be able to consider his education complete during the next decade or so who has not grappled vicariously with the dilemmas Krumholz faced."
Alan A. Altshuler, from the Foreword

"Fascinating, illuminating war stories from the nation's most creative and progressive (ex)municipal planning director, capped by an intelligent and useful set of 'lessons.'"
Chester W. Hartman, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, and Chair, Planner Network

"In this extraordinary book, Norman Krumholz and John Forester team up to enlighten those seeking a progressive approach to planning on how to interpret the Cleveland experience. Krumholz provides an analytic chronicle of his role as Cleveland's planning director under three mayors and of his efforts to plan on behalf of the city's impoverished majority. Forester examines the Cleveland story from the perspective of a planning theorist whose focus is how planning can serve people with relatively little political influence. Together the authors identify the opportunities that exist within the urban governmental structure. They conclude that planning and politics are not antithetical and that an astute political strategy depends on sound professionalism. This well-written book is required reading for both students and practitioners of planning."
Susan S. Fainstein, Rutgers University

"Norman Krumholz's story is one of the high points in the history of city planning and urban affairs in this country, and John Forester is one of its foremost interpreters of this history."
Pierre Clavel, Cornell University

"Over and over again this book reveals the extraordinary levels of commitment, creativity, and effort that were needed and expended to divert the market-driven urban development process, however slightly, from its normal course the reinforcement and reproduction of the status quo."
APA Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877227012
• ISBN 13: 9780877227014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 271