Trouble With City Planning - What New Orleans Can Teach Us

Informationen zum Autor Kristina Ford is Visiting Professor of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi. In 2010-2011 she was the chief of staff to New Orleans' deputy mayor! who is responsible for all efforts to rebuild the city and to plan for its continuing development. Klappentext After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina! New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild! with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. This title argues that almost no part of our usual understanding of the phrase 'city planning' is accurate: not our conception of the plan itself! nor our sense of what city planners do. Zusammenfassung After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina! New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild! with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. This title argues that almost no part of our usual understanding of the phrase 'city planning' is accurate: not our conception of the plan itself! nor our sense of what city planners do.

Product details

• Authors: Kristina Ford, FORD KRISTINA
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2011
• EAN: 9780300177428
• ISBN: 978-0-300-17742-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Louisiana, Urban & municipal planning, Urban and municipal planning and policy