The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities

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Can plannersor anyoneimprove a neighborhood city suburb or region? Planning does work: this book explains how. The Planning Game: Lessons from Great Cities provides a focused thorough and sophisticated overview of how planning works generously illustrated with 200 colorful photographs diagrams and maps created expressly for the book. It presents the public realm approach to planningan approach that emphasizes the importance of public investments in what we own: streets squares parks infrastructure and public buildings. They are the fundamental elements in any community and are the way to determine our future. The book covers planning at every level explaining the activities that go into successfully transforming a community as exemplified by four cities and their colorful motive forces: Paris (Baron Georges-Eugne Haussmann) New York (Robert Moses) Chicago (Daniel Burnham) and Philadelphia (Edmund Bacon). The Planning Game is an invaluable resource for planners students community leaders and everybody involved with making better places to live. 235 color illustrations