The American City

What works, what doesn't

Alexander Garvin

560 pages, parution le 02/08/2002 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

This comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to urban planning and design in America analyzes key projects initiated in 250 U.S. urban areas and details which strategies and programs were successful and which failed.
New to the Second Edition:
* New sections on stadiums, entertainment centers, business improvement districts, tax credit housing
* Checklists and tables for field use
* A review of recent failures and successes This classic reference, fully revised for the new millennium, provides proven strategies for professionals and invaluable real-world insights for students.

Since the release of the First Edition in 1995,this critically acclaimed resource has become THE standard reference work on urban planning and design, providing proven strategies for professionals and priceless "real world" insight for students. This new Second Edition offers detailed, expert coverage of all the latest trends, projects, and programs in the ever-changing world of urban design.

The American City: What Works, What Doesn't analyzes more than 300 key programs and projects initiated in 150 major cities, suburban areas, and towns—showing why some projects succeeded brilliantly in accomplishing their goals, why others failed, and the lessons to be learned from both the successes and the failures. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach to the complex challenges of urban and suburban regeneration, this superb sourcebook explores:
* The need for city planning to generate a widespread and sustained private market reaction in order to succeed

* The six ingredients of project success: market, location, design, financing, entrepreneurship, and time

* Innovative ways to revitalize cities through the use of parks, playgrounds, cultural centers, convention centers, shopping centers, sports arenas, and more

* Methods for increasing access to affordable housing and revitalizing neighborhoods

* Everything you need to know about zoning and historical preservation laws

NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION:

* Added sections on stadiums and entertainment centers, business improvement districts, "big box" retailing, tax credit housing, environmental issues, loft housing, and more

* Coverage of key recent projects in the most significant areas of urban planning

* Complete updates of all statistical information and projects covered in the prior edition

Whether your interest is government, the nonprofit sector, or the private market—if the subject is cities and how they work—this book is the place to begin.

What have been the very best urban and suburban projects conceived and implemented across the United States? What was the guiding philosophy behind each of them? Why were they successful? How did they make our cities, suburban areas, and towns better places?

What projects didn't work and why? Was the philosophy that inspired them misguided or was the failure in the execution? How can these unsuccessful projects help us solve the myriad of today's urban problems?

This new Second Edition of what has become THE standard reference on urban planning and design, practicing city planner and noted urban scholar Alexander Garvin surveys what has been done to improve America's cities over the past 100 years—analyzing more than 300 programs and projects. Taking a rare multidisciplinary approach, Garvin shows how the combination of individual and private-sector efforts, community-level action, and broad-based government policy can and has achieved an urban regeneration.

It is the author's contention that we DO know how to solve urban problems and have been successfully fixing cities for two centuries. He argues, that by studying and learning from the past, we CAN solve each seemingly intractable modern crises and the scarcity of public open space, the lack of safe, affordable housing, the degradation of the environment, the erosion of the tax base, and countless other problems plague our cities and suberbs.

The book presents six ingredients of project success—market, location, design, financing, entrepreneurship, and time—and examines the ways in which these factors affect success or failure. Garvin argues that project success is not enough, and that effective city planning occurs only when the project also improves the surrounding city. Consequently, he calls for a redefinition of urban and surburban planning in which public action generates a desirable, widespread, and sustained private market reaction.

Contents

Chapter 1: A Realistic Approach to City and Suburban Planning
Chapter 2: Ingredients of Success
Chapter 3: Parks and Playgrounds
Chapter 4: Palaces for the People
Chapter 5: Retail Shopping
Chapter 6: Urban Development
Chapter 7: Planning for Pedestrians
Chapter 8: Increasing the Housing Supply
Chapter 9: Reducing Housing Cost
Chapter 10: Housing Rehabilitation
Chapter 11: Clearing the Slums
Chapter 12: Revitalizing Neighborhoods
Chapter 13: Residential Suburbs
Chapter 14: New-Towns-in-Towns
Chapter 15: New Towns-in-the-Country
Chapter 16: Land Use Regulation
Chapter 17: Preserving the Past
Chapter 18: Comprehensive Planning
Index

L'auteur - Alexander Garvin

Alexander Garvin has combined a career in urban planning and real estate with teaching, architecture, and public service. He is currently Vice President for Planning, Design, and Development of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission, and Managing Director for Planning NYC2012, the committee to bring the Summer Olympics to New York in 2012.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Alexander Garvin
Parution	02/08/2002
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	560
Format	22,3 x 29
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1910g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071373678
ISBN13	978-0-07-137367-8