06672nam a2200325Ia 4500 pucpr 20210310174601.0 011510s2002 nyuaoe b 001 0 eng 0071373675 9780071373678 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA9105 G37 2002 711/.4/0973 21 Garvin, Alexander. 227261 The American city : what works, what doesn't. Alexander Garvin. txt 2nd ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2002. xiv, 560 p. ill. 28 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. A REALISTIC APPROACH TO CITY AND SUBURBAN PLANNING -- Defining the Planning Process -- A New Approach to Urban Planning -- Notes -- 2. INGREDIENTS OF SUCCESS -- Market -- Location -- Design -- Financing -- Entrepreneurship -- Time -- Manipulating the Ingredients of Success to Obtain Desirable Private-Market Reaction -- The Role of Government -- Notes -- 3. PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS -- Nature as Restorative -- Recreation as Therapy -- Standardization and Mass Production -- Midcourse Correction -- The Adventure Playground -- Community Gardens -- Parks as a Strategic Public Investment -- Using Parks to Initiate Urbanization -- Using Parks to Change Land Use Patterns -- Using Park Systems to Change Entire Cities -- Ingredients of Success -- Parks as Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 4. PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE -- World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- Civic Centers -- Cultural Centers -- Sports Centers -- Convention Centers -- Ingredients of Success -- Palaces for the People as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 5. RETAIL SHOPPING -- Retail Strips -- Public Markets -- Department Stores -- Shopping Centers -- Shopping Arcades -- Suburban Malls -- Urban Malls -- Reviving Urban Retail Districts -- The Festival Marketplace -- Off-Price Retailers -- Prepackaged Urbanity -- Mixed-Use Centers -- Ingredients of Success -- Retailing as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 6. URBAN REDEVELOPMENT -- Le Corbusier's Vision -- Adapting the City of Tomorrow to Postwar America -- A National Program -- The New Working Environment -- The New Residential Environment -- Opposition -- Transfiguration and Death -- Ingredients of Success -- Redevelopment as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 7. PLANNING FOR PEDESTRIANS -- Pedestrian Precincts -- Business Improvement Districts -- Ingredients of Success -- Creating a Pedestrian-Friendly Environment as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 8. INCREASING THE HOUSING SUPPLY -- Providing a Stable Supply of Mortgage Money -- Standardized Mortgages for a National Market -- Multifamily Housing -- The Savings and Loan Crisis -- Ingredients of Success -- Increasing the Housing Supply as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 9. REDUCING HOUSING COST -- Subsidizing Supply -- Reducing Development Costs -- Reducing Economic Rent -- Increasing After-Tax Income -- Subsidizing Demand -- Supplementing Rent -- Ingredients of Success -- Reducing Housing Cost as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 10. HOUSING REHABILITATION -- The Housing Stock -- Determining the Level of Rehabilitation -- Three Government Rehabilitation Experiments -- Three Citywide Rehabilitation Programs -- Ingredients of Success -- Rehabilitation as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 11. CLEARING THE SLUMS -- The Bad Environment -- Strategy 1: The Self-Contained Enclave -- Strategy 2: The Superblock -- Strategy 3: A Net Increase in Apartments -- Strategy 4: Removing Frictional Blight -- Strategy 5: Concentrated, Coordinated Government Action -- The Critics -- Ingredients of Success -- Housing Redevelopment as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 12. REVITALIZING NEIGHBORHOODS -- Neighborhood Dynamics -- Neighborhood Revitalization Programs -- Ingredients of Success -- Neighborhood Revitalization as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 13. RESIDENTIAL SUBURBS -- Rectilinear Subdivisions -- Curvilinear Subdivisions -- Cluster Communities -- The New Urbanism -- Ingredients of Success -- A Planning Strategy for the Suburban Landscape -- Notes -- 14. NEW-TOWNS-IN-TOWNS -- Utopia arouund the Corner -- The National Effort to Build New-Towns-in-Town -- New City Districts -- Ingredients of Success -- New-Towns-in-Towns as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 15. NEW-TOWNS-IN-THE-COUNTRY -- Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City -- The Vacation Refuge New Town -- The Utopian Satellite New Town -- National Policy Initiatives -- Neotraditional New Towns -- Ingredients of Success -- The New Town as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 16. LAND USE REGULATION -- Private Land Use Regulation -- The Police Power -- The Role of Federal, State, and Local Government -- Land Use Regulation Strategies -- Comprehensive Zoning -- Incentive Zoning -- Exactions -- Special Districts -- Growth Management -- Environmental Review -- Ingredients of Success -- Land Use Regulation as a Planning Strategy --Notes -- 17. PRESERVING THE PAST --Preserving the Old and Historic -- Instant Roots and Ersatz History -- Protecting the Cultural Patrimony -- Paying for Landmark Preservation -- An Activist Approach -- Ingredients of Success -- Historic Preservation as a Planning Strategy -- Notes -- 18. COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING -- Burnham and Company -- A National Movement -- Visions of the Future Metropolis -- Synergistic Government Expenditures -- Planning as a Continuing Process -- Ingredients of Success -- Comprehensive Planning as a City Strategy -- Notes. Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) 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. City planning United States. 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