The definitive guide to urban planning and design--completely updated and now in full color In the Third Edition of The American City: What Works; What Doesnt; award-winning city planner and renowned urban scholar Alexander Garvin examines more than 350 programs and projects that have been implemented nationwide in 150 cities and suburbs; evaluates their successes and failures; and offers relevant lessons learned from them. Nearly all of the books 650 illustrations are now in full color and consist almost entirely of photographs; maps; and diagrams produced especially for the Third Edition. Garvin discusses major urban initiatives that have emerged over the past two decades; such as Chicagos Millennium Park; Houstons Uptown Business District; and Metropolitan Denvers FasTracks multicounty rapid transit network. He reexamines the wide range of places and strategies covered in the previous edition; offering new analyses and insights. A new chapter on retrofitting the city for a modern commercial economy is included. This practical guide presents six key ingredients of project success--market; location; design; financing; time; and entrepreneurship--and explains how to combine these elements in a mutually reinforcing manner. Garvin demonstrates how the synthesis of individual and private-sector efforts; community-level action; and broad-based government policy can--and has--achieved urban and suburban regeneration. COVERAGE INCLUDES: A realistic approach to city and suburban planning Ingredients of success--market; location; design; financing; time; and entrepreneurship Parks; playgrounds; and open space Retail shopping Palaces for the people--libraries; stadiums; museums; and other public facilities Retrofitting the city for a modern commercial economy The life and death of the City of Tomorrow--implications of national urban redevelopment programs Downtown management Increasing the housing supply Reducing housing costs Housing rehabilitation Clearing the slums Revitalizing neighborhoods Residential suburbs New-towns-in-town New-towns-in-the-country Land use regulation Historic preservation Comprehensive planning
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Internet CollectingBy Julia PenelopeWhether youre an old hand at collecting on the Internet or not; youre bound to find useful information in this essay collection by buyers and sellers. Many of the essays provide numerous URLs for collecting sites that may not be familiar; but its the personal experiences of the contributors that provide insight into the learning curve of buying and selling on the Internet. Although you may not collect Kelly dolls or vintage watches; youll recognize your own experience; or lack thereof; in these stories told with humor; some of it wry. Among the treasures collected for this anthology is an essay by Brenda Oelbaum; the Michigan coordinator for The Feminist Art Project; about collecting diet books to be used for a papier mache Venus of Willendorf.Whatever your own collecting passion may be; youll want to read Collecting and the Internet before you bid or buy.