(eBook PDF) The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t 3rd Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071801626
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071801621
• Author:  Alexander Garvin 

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 Doesn’t, 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 learnedfrom them.

Nearly all of the book’s 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 Chicago’s Millennium Park, Houston’s Uptown Business District, and Metropolitan Denver’s FasTracks multicounty rapid transitnetwork. 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.

table of contents:

Ch. 1 A Realistic Approach

Ch. 2. Ingredients of Success

Ch. 3. Parks; Downtown Strategies (new)

Ch. 4. Retailing

Ch. 5. Magnets

Ch. 6. Modernization

Ch. 7. Retrofitting for Vehicles

Ch. 8. Reclaiming Public Realm

Ch. 9. Downtown Management; Housing Strategies (new)

Ch. 10. Increasing Housing

Ch. 11. Reducing Cost

Ch. 12. Housing Rehab

Ch. 13. Clearing Slums

Ch. 14. Revitalizing Neighborhoods; Suburban Strategies (new)

Ch. 15. Residential Suburbs

Ch. 16. New Enclaves

Ch. 17. New Towns; Regulatory Strategies (new)

Ch. 18. Land Use Regulations

Ch. 19. Historic Preservation

Ch. 20. Comprehensive Planning; Index

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