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. . 2013. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393733440
ISBN 13: 9780393733440
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Can planners―or anyone―improve a neighborhood, city, suburb, or region? Planning does work: this book explains how.

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-Eug�ne 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.
235 color illustrations

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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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