A Realistic Approach To Urban Planning

Alexander Garvin offers the first of an eight-part series addressing realistic approaches to urban planning.

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December 17, 2002, 6:00 AM PST

"We need a new approach to planning, one that explicitly deals with both public action and the probable private market reaction. Such change-oriented planning requires general acceptance of the idea that while planners are in the change business, others will actually effect the changes... Only when this approach to planning takes hold will we get beyond the technical studies, needs analyses, and visions of the good city that currently masquerade as urban planning and get on with the business of fixing the American city."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: A Realistic Approach to Urban Planning

Monday, December 16, 2002 in The New York Sun

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I love the variety of courses, many practical, and all richly illustrated. They have inspired many ideas that I've applied in practice, and in my own teaching.

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