Urban planning today : a Harvard design magazine reader /
introduction by Alexander Garvin ; William S. Saunders, editor.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
- xx, 151 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Harvard design magazine readers ; 3 .
"These essays were previously published in Harvard Design Magazine, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Peter G. Rowe, Dean, 1992-2004; Alan Altshuler, Dean, 2005-"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
The return of urban renewal: Dan Doctoroff's grand plans for New York City / Susan S. Fainstein -- Deadlock plus 50: on public housing in New York / Richard Plunz and Michael Sheridan -- Democracy takes command: the new community planning and the challenge to urban design / John Kaliski -- Can planning be a means to better architecture? Chicago's building boom and design quality / Lynn Becker -- An anatomy of civic ambition in Vancouver: toward humane density / Leonie Sandercock -- Paved with good intentions: Boston's central artery project and a failure of city building / Hubert Murray -- Public planning and private initiative: the South Boston waterfront / Matthew J. Kiefer -- Omaha by design-all of it: new prospects in urban planning and design / Jonathan Barnett -- Is eminent domain for economic development constitutional? / Jerold S. Kayden -- From new regionalism to the urban network: changing the paradigm of growth / Peter Calthorpe -- Design by deception: the politics of megaproject approval / Bent Flyvbjerg.