The contributors of Policy; Planning; and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein; the volume features original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban planning and policy; mainly from the United States; but also from Canada; Hungary; Italy; and Israel. The contributors discuss goal setting and ethics in planning; illuminate paradigm shifts; make policy recommendations; and arrive at best practices for future planning.Policy; Planning; and People includes theoretical as well as practice-based essays on a wide range of planning issues: housing and neighborhood; transportation; surveillance and safety; the network society; regional development and community development. Several essays are devoted to disadvantaged and excluded groups such as senior citizens; the poor; and migrant workers. The unifying themes of this volume are the values of equity; diversity; and democratic participation. The contributors discuss and draw conclusions related to the planning process and its outcomes. They demonstrate the need to look beyond efficiency to determine who benefits from urban policies and plans.Contributors: Alberta Andreotti; Tridib Banerjee; Rachel G. Bratt; Naomi Carmon; Karen Chapple; Norman Fainstein; Susan Fainstein; Eran Feitelson; Amnon Frenkel; George Galster; Penny Gurstein; Deborah Howe; Norman Krumholz; Jonathan Levine; Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris; Enzo Mingione; Kenneth Reardon; Izhak Schnell; Daniel Shefer; Michael Teitz; Ivaacute;n Tosics; Lawrence Vale; Martin Wachs.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Deep Cut; a play about the cover up of a young womans death by the British ArmyBy martin dobsonThis play written in the reality style concerns the experiences and dignified reaction by the mother and father of an 18 year old woman soldier who died in suspicious circumstances at Deepcut. The family have never had an explanation of what really happened that day.The Army and the Police never investigated the death seriously and either lost; destroyed or ignored evidence prefering to call it suicide. Other recruits there tell of extreme bullying; harrasment and sexual assaults. All of this was swept under the carpet by the Army and the Police. An additional review by another Police force found that it might of been murder and two persons of interest were never seriously interviewed despite one of them changing his story repeatedly and 30 minutes of his time unaccounted for.The shocking part is that it wasnt the first death there in suspicious circumstances; there was another less than six months earlier. Six years later there were another two.The play leaves you with a feeling of concern and anger about the indiference of govenmental organisations with their own agenda towards the families of young people who had thier lives cut tragically short.